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Bypass Powershell ExecutionPolicy

In attempting to do some Powershell (WinRM) remote actions, specifically using  Roger Zander's Collection Commander, I came across this blog entry and thought "Awesome, already done for me!".  http://www.verboon.info/2014/12/installing-software-using-collection-commander/ And...

CM All Members of All Local Groups - Powershell

"Back in the Day", --> Here<-- a vbscript was created to allow for ConfigMgr (version 2012 at the time was the version I was using) to be able to custom inventory the members of Local Groups. This was mostly in response...

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 Display OS Marketing version in SQL reports

Have you ever noticed that by default, the devices (Windows 10, 11, Servers) don't report up their 'marketing name' in standard inventory?  Like 22H2, or 21H2? Ever find that annoying?  Sure, you can extend inventory to...

CM Icons for Applications, Packages, and Task Sequences

An important, but often neglected, feature of Software Center is to associate icons with the visible deployments in Software Center.  You can add a visible icon to your Available things in Software Center:  Applications,...

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...

Configuration Manager Versions Summary Report

I'm sure there are a dozen if not hundreds of blogs posts out there with this exact same information; just posting it mostly for myself.  If it helps someone else, great.  As of late July 2016, these are the versions (and...

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...

Politely Schedule restarts of CCMExec Service

Over the years of troubleshooting the SCCM Client, even with the built-in CCMEval task to attempt to watch and remediate client health of the SCCM Client, experience has shown to those of us in the trenches that sometimes,...

Windows 10 Inplace Update History Inventory

We were tasked at our company to get some statistics around machines which went through inplace upgrades, vs. machines which were on an 'original image' (or bare metal image, or whatever phrase you would like to give that).With...