This is an update to this older blog: http://mnscug.org/blogs/sherry-kissinger/422-dot-net-frameworks-mof-edit
Nash Pherson, Enterprise Client Management MVP, pointed out that for versions 4.5x and higher Microsoft is...
When will Microsoft ever get Role Based Access (RBA) working for Automatic Detection Rules (ADRs)? I need to know that a server admin can make use of an ADR to setup his patches and that a workstation admin can't go in...
As promised here is the slide deck for the App-V and UeV presentations at the last MNSCUG meeting. Managing UeV with ConfigMgr 2012 and automating the creation UeV Configuration Items and Baseline Compliance items using...
Have you ever wondered if you could get a report of all your Application Deployments' options? The ones which are in the GUI for things like "User Experience, Show a dialog window instead of a toast", or "Deployment Settings,...
I spent weeks troubleshooting several apps and packages that were getting stuck in “In progress” state and were not successfully distributing to the DPs. When looking at the despool.logon the primary server, I see...
This...
Our next MN System Center User Group meeting will be MONDAY, April 21st from 4:30pm - 7:15pm at Microsoft's Edina HQ building - 6th Floor, Lake of the Woods.
This month's meeting is sponsored by NowMicro, the...
August is already upon us! Our next user group meeting will be Wednesday, August 20th at 4:30 - 7:00pm at Microsoft's Edina HQ building - 6th Floor, Lake of the Woods and is going to...
The August meeting was a great success! Both presentation were fantastic. A big thank you to Jonathan Almquist and Nathan Foreman! Concurrencyprovided stellar food and drink as well. Great times...
Well I told you not to install a CAS, didn’t I? But of course I no choice since my team supports the servers that manage 365K clients. Well, we had one heck of a week last month.
It started with a phone call...
After upgrading your CM12 Primary site(s) to Windows Server 2012 R2, you may experience the following issues.
1. You may not be able to access the console after the upgrade. Check SMS Admins permission...
"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...
Because of this reddit post, Maintenance Task does not finish, I got inspired to look closer at maintenance tasks. There is already a view for seeing what your tasks are set to, and how long they have taken to run the...
I had the occasion to want to check the DP and SUP configurations for whether or not LEDBat was enabled for those roles, and yes... I absolutely could go look in the console, go to every server with a dp or sup role, right-click,...
Here is something I've wanted to try forever - heck since they used to call it Server Core.
For my role servers like the MP or DP servers, would CM still work if I remove the GUI from the OS? Because Server 2012...
If you have a CAS (you shouldn't), and if you have enabled distributed views, you might want to hold off from upgrading to SP1 for CM12 R2.
It sounds like we'll need a hotfix for the upgrade so that certain tables and...
I just tweeted a while ago that I couldn't wait to get my hands on the new Toolkit for R2 because one of the new tools, the Collection Evaluation Viewer, is something that should really help us keep coleval flowing smoothly....
The Situation: ConfigMgr 2012 clients can be managed remotely (and troubleshooting remotely) quite handily... if only Powershell were installed and Remote Management via Powershell (WinRM) were enabled.
This article...
This is an update to a previous blog post. One of the Compliance Settings has modified content. The changes are
Inside the "WinRM Config for v2 or v3", there used to be 4 settings to check if the listener is defined. ...
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...
Either my web searching skills have left me; or no one else has had occasion to create this type of report for SRS; but I couldn't find a SQL query I could use in SRS to show me collection details about when a particular...
Issue: ConfigMgr Clients which should be reporting via hardware inventory "CCMRecentlyUsedApps" have nothing to report. An analysis of the client indicates there is nothing in WMI root\cimv2\sms\ccm_recentlyusedapps...
I am a Program Manager at Microsoft investigating new scenarios for ConfigMgr. I'd love to hear about your experiences with application deployment and management - your problems and asks, to identify how we can improve...
Back when Windows 98 and Windows XP were the norm, there was a script available called "datashift", which would grab information from users regarding their printers, and included any network mapped printers. It worked...
There is a situation which MIGHT happen for you. The default for Cumulative Updates is, I believe 60 minutes now. But many updates are still defaulting to 10 minutes. I don't personally think that default should change,...
State messages are great, because they are quickly processed. However, it can (and does) occasionally happen where for network reasons, corrupt data, or other influences, some State Messages from your ConfigMgr Clients...
Issue: Leveraging SrsResources.dll using ConfigMgr Reporting Services Reports used to work... but after an upgrade or reconfiguration any reports using the expression "=SrsResources.Localization.GetErrorMessage(Fields!ErrorCode.Value,...
Certainly in your CurrentBranch Console, under "Management Insights", there are some things there regarding collection cleanup; but here's a few other ways to look at your data.Over the years, Collection plaque and tartar...
A lot of people use the console--but I don't go in there that much. I'm more of a query SQL kind of person. Some of the updates lately for Current Branch have been leveraging the "FastChannel" for communications. If...
As part of a presentation for the 2019 Midwest Management Summitin Minneapolis, one of the sessions I'm presenting with Jeff Bolduanis Configuration Items. As part of that session, we'll be demoing using a PowerShell...
After a wildly successful #MMSMinnesota we will be wasting no time getting back into the swing of things. We are going to hold a rare December MNSCUG meeting and for very good reason: MVP Mikael Nystrom offered to...
Based on information contained in here:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/15601.how-to-determine-the-net-framework-installed-versions.aspx
Below is a potential custom hardware inventory MOF edit...
Update to an older blog entry...
http://www1.myitforum.com/2012/06/13/gather-some-adobe-software-serial-numbers-using-configmgr-dcm-and-hardware- inventory/ :
Because this thread: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/configmgrinventory/thread/7243fac9-36c4-...
Although it is certainly possible to use iexplore.exe to obtain this information, I'm not a huge fan of software inventory, when I can use hardware inventory instead. Below is a mof edit to pull out Internet Explorer...
In response to this forum post:https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/systemcenter/en-US/55b1d256-f3fb-4296-a9e6-2241cc8d4d0d/sccm-report-google-chrome-extensions
I cobbled together a VERY rough approximation of...
This routine has only had a limited life in a lab environment with only 3 clients. Use at your own risk, etc. etc. No promises or guarantees, and it might be the Worst Thing Ever. Test, test, and test some more.
What...
Here are my highlights from IT/Dev last week…
Kent and Johan's PreCon on ConfigMgr:Touched on a number of handy tips and tricks. Links to all the goodies at located here. http://blog.coretech.dk/kea/links-from-the-configmgr-2012-r2-precon-itdev-connections/
CM...
What a year! 2014 was a good one for MNSCUG and its members. We held 12 meeting last year with speakers from all over the world*. We ate some great food and swigged some even finer ales. There were so many amazing...
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...
Mastering Windows 7 and 8.1 deployment using MDT2013 and Config Mgr 2012 R2 [4 days]
Build a Windows deployment solution using MDT 2013 and SCCM 2012 R2!
Build a real deployment solution using Microsoft Deployment...
The next user group meeting is Thursday, July 17th at our normal time 4:30 - 7:00pm at Microsoft's Edina HQ building - 6th Floor, Lake of the Woods. Ryan Ephgrave will be presenting on the finer and more...
Our next MN System Center User Group meeting will be an ALL DAYevent Thursday, June 5th from 9am to 3:30pm at Microsoft's Edina HQ building - 6th Floor, Lake of the Woods. This will be a star studded extravaganza...
REMINDER - Our next MN System Center User Group meeting will be an ALL DAYevent Thursday, June 5th from 9am to 3:30pm at Microsoft's Edina HQ building - 6th Floor, Lake of the Woods. This will be a star...
In order to keep our CM12 clean, we normally enable “Delete Inactive Client Discovery Data” under Site Maintenance properties. By default this is disabled, but when enabled it is set to 90, unless you change that. This...
I had a post back in March showing how to use Bing to help you find the same documentation. This weekend, Kim Oppelfens (MS MVP) made a nice post to help us find Microsoft documentation using search engine providers....
Thanks again to Parallels for sponsoring, presenting and for the surprise iPad 2 give away! For those who were not able to get a card from Carlos or want to know more information, here is his contact info.
Speakers
Carlos...
Garth Jones has a good guide here, on how to use Mark Cochrane's RegKeytoMof: http://www.enhansoft.com/blog/how-to-use-regkeytomof
It looks like the older link for RegKeytoMof3.1 is currently broken, you can pick up RegKeytoMof...
If your internal security team require you to harden IIS, specifically in regard to QID 2011827 (a Qualys recommendation), depending upon how your security team requires you to implement QID 2011827 recommendations,...
Over the years we've uncovered various iis settings for our Management Points and Distribution Points, which we've found needed tweaking (for a company our size and complexity). Perhaps none of these settings will be relevant...
It used to be (prior to 1809 Windows 10) that one could inventory the wmi class win32_optionalfeatures and know if RSAT was installed or not. Apparently that is no longer the case; and from what I could discover online,...
Background for context:
I happen to work at a large company, which has more than 300,000 employees. Using Enterprise Client Management (MEMCM), we often deploy 'free' Software to the majority of users (think something...