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CM Disable Inventory Throttling

Update to this previous blog: https://tcsmug.org/blogs/sherry-kissinger/287-cm12disableinventorythrottling  That blog entry, from 2013, was written in vbscript.  This is updated to be powershell, and to ensure...

CM Inventory per-user browser extensions

At my company, there was recently a need to verify a custom vendor browser extension, specifically for Edge.  I found several methods for gathering Chrome extensions (including a clumsy attempt by myself several years...

CM Inventory per-user installed applications

There are several examples of 'how to inventory' per-user installed applications and version, like Teams, or OneDrive, etc.  This is another one, from Benjamin Reynolds, and I've tested it a few times to make sure it worked...

ConfigMgr 2012 OSD Notes

Attached is the slide deck and the refreshMP script that I referenced during the OSD presentation at the October MNSCUG meeting.  This script should be copied the device early in the task sequence and then run after...

File Inventory via Hardware Inventory

If you are less than pleased with how file inventory functions (badly named 'Software Inventory' in CM), like me, this is possibly something you'd want to test in your lab (you have a lab, right) and see if for those occasional...

How to melt a SUP

We have 3 primary sites under a CAS (bad, but we have no choice with so many clients). Because we also have Nomad, we don't care where clients get assigned. We care only that each site has roughly the same client count...

Java Software Metering with CM - Java 7 End of Life

It is almost that time, another Java runtime will go end of life in just over a month.  This means we have only a month left to finish the Java upgrade we have already started, right?  Well I have lived through...

Using Configuration Items instead of Software Inventory

Issue to be solved: Software Inventory (which is really FILE inventory) you've noticed takes FOREVER when you define a rule like "dropbox.exe on c:\users\", the clients take several minutes to run that query.  and...

Visual Studio Editions via ConfigMgr MOF Edit

This ask came up recently, so I did a bit of research.  It is NOT, I repeat NOT perfect, and NOT complete.  I did NOT include all of the possible "Team" editions for Visual Studio 2005 or Visual Studio 2008. But for Visual...