If you are looking for a collection to query all the machines only from a particular OU not the SUB OU .Let say ,I have Top OU called Workstations\comp(120 systems) in eskon.net domain and in turn it has 3 sub OU's OU1(10 systems),OU2(20 systems),OU3(49…

I was searching for something to find the software update complaince to see if machines requires something to patch .as i couldnt find any such report from default reports ,so created one like below and gives me the compelet complaicne…

The below scripts works for only Win 2000 and XP not for other operating systems .Here are the simple steps that you can achive this(getting a report for local administrators).*******test it once before taking it to production***************** 1.Go to the…

Here is the collection that gives you a list of machines with specific staus message ID: select sys.ResourceID,sys.ResourceType,sys.Name,sys.SMSUniqueIdentifier,sys.ResourceDomainORWorkgroup,sys.Client from sms_r_system as sys inner join SMS_ClientAdvertisementStatus as offer on sys.ResourceID=offer.ResourceID  WHERE AdvertisementID = 'GSA2035F' and LastStatusMessageID = 10009 10009  is success, replace…

Class security Level Vs Instance Level Security Rights You can configure the security rights either the class level or the instance level in SMS/SCCM. These rights basically helpful in providing the access to the SMS objects like collection,packages,reports and many…

Below are the basic log files (more understandable way) that are helpful in troubleshooting the client issues if there are any application instllation failure/inventory and other issues.This information has been compiled from Microsoft Knowledge Base Article 867490 A list of windows update…