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…

In my daily work routine,i used to work with some of the web report to present it to management as well for troubleshooting purpose.I come across with many reports that are required.some reports that have taken from the internet. Here…

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…

some times its hard to know the systems which are having issues in reporting their inventory and even some systems doesnt reporte anything to the site server though the client is installled on it. Here is the collection which gives…

You can take a remote of any SCCM client by disabling the Firewall. But for security reasons/project requirement,the windows firewall should be ON,in this case,you can not do remote control from SMS/SCCM.Either you should disable the firewall or enable the…

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…

Here are some webcasts related to ConfigMgr and deployment in general. ConfigMgr - Prerequisites Before Installation Installing SQL Server on a Server other than the ConfigMgr Primary Installing SQL 2005 SP2 Local to the ConfigMgr Primary Server In-Place Upgrade of…

This gives list of machines where the group policy database file not updated .Before creating the SCCM web report,software inventory has to be enabled for GPO file secedit.sdb file which will is available in  %windir%\security\database. collection(WQL): select SMS_R_SYSTEM.ResourceID ,SMS_R_SYSTEM.ResourceType ,SMS_R_SYSTEM.Name…