SEDO(Serialized Editing of Distributed Objects) As global data is replicated everywhere, a user on a primary site could change an object at the same time as a user on the CAS or other primary servers. This is an unavoidable consequence of replicated...

DRS Initialization In Configuration Manager 2012 When a site is first installed it establishes an initial synchronization with the sending site so that subsequent data changes are applied to an identical data set as that at the sending site. By...

How to install SCUP and configure This will show the steps on how to install SCUP and also configure a third party catalogue, (EH Adobe Flash player) and deploy the clients reporting to SCCM server. You can download the SCUP from the following...

GUI Tool to Exchange Public Keys Between Sites I had feedback from few of the customers and colleagues of mine that the process of manually exchange of keys as per this link http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb693690.aspx takes time and confusing...

Many have been asking for what i need to check to make sure SCCM is healthy. According to me if I were you these are things I would have checked :) This might not be complete but had tried to include what ever I could think of. Administrative...

Audit Collector in Operations Manager 2007 is one of the most frequently used. When I was supporting the SCOM and ACS, the challenge many of customers informed me was that applying filter query using adtadmin tool. This is more important to make sure...

Software Distribution The Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 software distribution feature provides a set of tools and resources that help you create and manage packages and advertisements used to distribute software to client resources...

Heartbeat Discovery This is important for the understanding of the health state of the agent, this can be scheduled in the SCCM server using the console and the settings are available under discovery rules Depending on the schedules set on the...

Software inventory The requirement of the software inventory to function is similar to that of the hardware inventory. The process is also almost similar. Client Side The scheduler will send a message to the inventory agent to start the software...

Software Updates Providing updates to software and maintaining managed resources is a reality of networked, distributed computing. An effective software update management process is necessary to maintain operational efficiency, overcome security...

Move the site database in SCCM 2007 R2 Usually the process of moving the site database is well documented in the link http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb680707.aspx What it might be missing is in case you have integrated with SQL reporting...

I had few quries on how to r e-name of the VHD same as VM name. This is a PowerShell script which you can ask as an alternative on getting this thing done. This power shell uses the Hyper-v Module. Please download the module from http://pshyperv...

This script will help to check if the srevice is avilable or not in a group of system '============================================================================================ 'Script Written by Sudheesh Narayanaswamy 'This can be used to check...

This script will show which all IP address are in use for a range of IP and also check whihc all are online and whihc all are offline. SCRIPT ======= ============================================================================================ 'Script...

Operation Manger Database How Operations manager grooming works and how to check The grooming settings are stored in the database in the PartitionandGroomingSettings table. Each table uses a different stored procedure to groom. You can run the following...

How to check if a certificate is going to Expire and Create a Event in Event Viewer This script will check for the certificates and then will create a event if the certificates is going to expire within 10 days period. Please note that this requires...

This is a script to delete a WMI instance from the WMI repository. This was used when the deployment status were failing infroming there was another deployment in progress where as it was not there. This was because of the issue with the entry present...

Hardware Inventory Hardware inventory is a feature in itself and functions independent to the other features of SCCM, but it closely depends on a successful deployment. SCCM Setup has to complete successfully. The Hardware inventory feature on...

Client Installation Once you are through with the installation of the SCCM server and the configuration then the next major task is client or agent installation. There are various methods to accomplish this task. Please check this link for more...

General log for all operating system deployment and task sequence log events are SMSTS.log nad the steps below will help you to get these for the troubleshooting. Enable the Debug Shell on your boot image Boot images have an option to enable a command...

We had a requirement to get a colletion computer that has not been inventoried for more than 30 days (Software or hardware). Here is the query WQL query for Last Software Scan select SMS_R_SYSTEM.ResourceID,SMS_R_SYSTEM.ResourceType,SMS_R_SYSTEM...

This is a script to check if a service is installed or not in a group of systems. SCRIPT ======= '============================================================================================ 'Script Written by Sudheesh Narayanaswamy 'This can...

As a response to a alert we can run a script, what I tried here was how can I run and when I run how can I use the parameters of the alert if I need to do something and for that I just exported the data and wrote it to a file named alert .txt. This...

When we are applying the hotfix http://support.microsoft.com/kb/970635 we would required to modify the registry value HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Sms\Mobile Client\Reboot Management\JobCounter to zero for the systems which has already been havingthis...

This details are from technet but always i had found it hard to find\search it out http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd547071.aspx To support workgroup clients, the following requirements must be met: Ø During client installation...