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Administartive Checklist for Configuration Manager 2007
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...
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GUI Tool to Manually Exchange Public Keys Between Sites
GUI Tool to Exchange Public Keys Between SitesI had feedback from few of the customers and colleagues of mine that the process of manually exchange of keys as per this link...
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How to install SCUP and configure
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....
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DRS Initialization In Configuration Manager 2012
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...
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SEDO (Serialized Editing of Distributed Objects) ConfigMgr 2012
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....
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Who is using Wmiprvse is it SMS services
We have lot instances where the issues like CPU spike , memory usage and even some activities are caused by SMS services. In many of these cases the process in question would be wmiprvse not SMS agent...
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How to reset the policy or request a Full policy retrieval for a SMS agent
We have situations where we need to reset the policy and the policy spy which we use does not work or would not prefer to copy the tool.This is a vbscript which we can use. Found it helpful when you...
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Troubleshooting SCCM Part VII .......... OSD .... Part I
Part I : PXE bootMany have been asking to write a blog on how to tracks the logs for OSD so here it is . It is in two parts. Part I is PXE boot and Part II is After the Pxe Boot to Full blown OS....
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Troubleshooting SCCM Part VII .......... OSD .... Part II
Part II : From windows PE to Full Blown OSOnce the client boots to PXE (which we have explained in Part I ) the clients goes to the management point and get the list of policy.If any Mandatory...
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Content Lookup in configuration Manager
Content Lookup in configuration ManagerWhether it is Software distribution , Software updates deployment or application deployment in 2012 the Majority of the issues comes is w.r.t to the clients not...
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Script to delete a WMI instance from WMI repository
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....
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How to check if a certificate is going to Expire
How to check if a certificate is going to Expire and Create a Event in Event ViewerThis script will check for the certificates and then will create a event if the certificates is going to expire within...
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Grooming in SCOM
Operation Manger DatabaseHow Operations manager grooming works and how to check The grooming settings are stored inthe databasein the PartitionandGroomingSettings table. Each table uses a different...
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VB Script IP Online tester
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...
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Script to check the staus of a service for a group of machines
This script will help to check if the srevice is avilable or not in a group of system '============================================================================================'Script Written by...
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PowerShell script to rename the VHD file and attach it to the VM
I had few quries on how to re-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....
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Move the site database in SCCM 2007 R2
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.aspxWhat it might be missing is...
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Troubleshooting SCCM Part III ...Software Updates
Software UpdatesProviding updates to software and maintaining managed resources is a reality of networked, distributed computing. An effective software update management process is necessary to...
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Troubleshooting SCCM Part IV............ Software Inventory
Software inventoryThe requirement of the software inventory to function is similar to that of the hardware inventory. The process is also almost similar.Client SideThe scheduler will send a message to...
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Troubleshooting SCCM Part V.........Heartbeat Discovery
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...
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