Application Deployment options for all App Deployments
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",...
View ArticleWindows 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...
View ArticleConfigMgr MaxExecutionTime Guesses for Updates
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...
View ArticleCreate ConfigMgr Powershell Configuration Items using Powershell
As part of a presentation for the 2019 Midwest Management Summit in Minneapolis, one of the sessions I'm presenting with Jeff Bolduan is Configuration Items. As part of that session, we'll be demoing...
View ArticleConfigMgr Truncate History Tables
Thanks very much to Umair Khan, Twitter @TheFrankUK, for the assist! One of the hiccups recently was making sure to exclude "globaldata" type HIST tables, so that DRS replication doesn't want to go...
View ArticleInventory Per User Installed Applications, For Example, Click-Once
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...
View ArticleUse CM Console scripts node to gather log files from CM Clients
To assist in answering a question in this forum post:https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-us/9017aca5-06aa-4a79-a034-a646b19b89fe/collecting-log-files-from-the-client?forum=configmgrcbgeneral...
View ArticlePolitely 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...
View ArticleVisual Studio 2017 Editions using ConfigMgr Configuration item
This is a companion to https://mnscug.org/blogs/sherry-kissinger/416-visual-studio-editions-via-configmgr-mof-edit It *might* be a replacement for the previous mof edit; but I haven't tested this...
View ArticleConfiguration Manager Current Branch FastChannel Information via SQL Query
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...
View ArticleConfiguration Manager Collection Cleanup Suggestions
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,...
View ArticleConfigMgr MaxExecutionTime Guesses for Updates
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...
View ArticleCreate ConfigMgr Powershell Configuration Items using Powershell
As part of a presentation for the 2019 Midwest Management Summit in Minneapolis, one of the sessions I'm presenting with Jeff Bolduan is Configuration Items. As part of that session, we'll be demoing...
View ArticleConfigMgr Truncate History Tables
Thanks very much to Umair Khan, Twitter @TheFrankUK, for the assist! One of the hiccups recently was making sure to exclude "globaldata" type HIST tables, so that DRS replication doesn't want to go...
View ArticleInventory Per User Installed Applications, For Example, Click-Once
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...
View ArticleUse CM Console scripts node to gather log files from CM Clients
To assist in answering a question in this forum post:https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-us/9017aca5-06aa-4a79-a034-a646b19b89fe/collecting-log-files-from-the-client?forum=configmgrcbgeneral...
View ArticlePolitely 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...
View ArticleVisual Studio 2017 Editions using ConfigMgr Configuration item
This is a companion to https://mnscug.org/blogs/sherry-kissinger/416-visual-studio-editions-via-configmgr-mof-edit It *might* be a replacement for the previous mof edit; but I haven't tested this...
View ArticleConfiguration Manager Current Branch FastChannel Information via SQL Query
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...
View ArticleConfiguration Manager Collection Cleanup Suggestions
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,...
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