SCCM ConfigMgr 2012 R2 SP1 Error creating CTM job (0x80070003)
Issue: After upgrading Configmgr 2012 R2 CU4 clients to ConfigMgr 2012 R2 SP1 clients, some, but not all, clients started having issues downloading content. It seemed to only happen on clients which...
View ArticleConfiguration Manager 2012, the Client Reinstalls Daily
Symptoms: Clients reinstall the ConfigMgr Client on a daily basis, and it doesn't appear that any automated push, automated deployment, or technician is reinstallng the client. In the %windir%\ccmsetup...
View ArticleMark Cochrane's RegKeyToMof 3.3a
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,...
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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...
View ArticleGather some Adobe Serial Numbers and Version using ConfigMgr Compliance...
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:...
View ArticleDot Net Framework Versions via Custom Hardware Inventory
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...
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.Net Frameworks 4.x updated Mof and Reports
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...
View ArticleInventory Google Chrome Extensions with ConfigMgr
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...
View ArticleConfigMgr Inventory Share Permissions
Apparently the original article on this from years ago has disappeared; so here's the old info. This was originally for Config2007; so it may be this won't work, or will have unknown results. YOU...
View ArticleBypass 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!"....
View ArticleConfiguration 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...
View ArticleBypass 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!"....
View ArticleConfiguration 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...
View ArticleBlog series: 30 days of Intune Trial, Part 1
When Intune was beta, I tried a trial at the time--which was well over a year ago. Since things change--including me--I decided to try another 30 day trial. Back when I was looking at it over a year...
View ArticleBlog series: 30 days of Intune Trial, Part 2
Day 2: A nice Microsoft person contacted me directly, just to be sure I had everything I needed for this trial. I told him yes; I'm just testing and getting familiar with it. If I hit some horrid...
View ArticleBlog Series: 30 days of Intune Trial, Part 3
Still no software in the software report. I scrounged up a Windows 10 Home Tablet, and am trying to get that registered with Intune. I can add the account, but on the client tablet when I go to "work...
View ArticleConfigMgr Current Branch Topic ID 611 swd State Messages flood
Issue: Clients are flooding the inboxes\auth\statesys.box\incoming with state messages similar to the below. There isn't much there to go on. The only promising thing to look for was that it's "Topic...
View ArticleConfigMgr CCMRecentlyUsedApps blank or mtrmgr.log with StartPrepDriver -...
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...
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Using Package Status MIF Files in a Task Sequence
Recently we internally had a need for technical people, but not necessarily people extremely versed in reading Task Sequence log files, to be able to tell via a report only why some step in a Task...
View ArticleConfigmgr Reports Leveraging SrsResources.dll display #Error instead of...
Issue: Leveraging SrsResources.dll using ConfigMgr Reporting Services Reports used to work... but after an upgrade or reconfiguration any reports using the expression...
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