Another example I quickly covered in my System Center Universe Europe 2015 session on Advanced Data Collection was tracking shutdowns of managed systems. This is done by selectively collecting event […]
CCMSETUP and Bypass Traverse Checking
Security is necessary in today’s world, that’s undeniable, but that doesn’t make it fun. At my current customer, most everything was going swimmingly well until I went to deploy the first […]
Boot image selection in ConfigMgr
Boot image selection during PXE in System Center 2012 Configuration Manager (ConfigMgr) is something that comes up from time to time in the forums as well as every-day discussions. This […]
SQL Server Inventory Using ConfigMgr
Here’s a script to gather complete SQL Server inventory information using ConfigMgr. I’ve tested and used it to gather information on SQL Server 2005, 2008, 2008 R2, and 2012. I haven’t tested it […]
IP Subnet Boundaries Are Still Evil
Yes, IP Subnet boundaries are in fact, still evil. This is the long (very long) overdue follow up to my previous post called IP Subnet Boundaries are Evil. Since creating […]
Content Distribution Magic
Content Distribution Follow-up This post is inspired by a question submitted on my previous post: Content Distribution: The Myth. The question was about how ConfigMgr determines if files are different […]
Content Distribution: The Myth
A quick post to dispel a common ConfigMgr myth about content distribution. The functionality in question is what happens when you change the source location of a package (or any […]
Notes on The Software Update Scan Cycle
Most of the below information is cobbled together from a couple of TechNet pages, a blog post or two, presentations I’ve seen over the years, conversations I’ve had with others, […]
WMI Manipulations and Manifestations
As a follow-on to my System Center Universe 2014 session, I thought I’d put together the various ways to create WMI “objects” so that ConfigMgr can later pick them up […]
Windows Update – What Is It Good For?
As is sometimes the case, this blog post is inspired by me being wrong or making an inaccurate statement (and then doing a bunch of research). This time, the statement […]