Configuration Manager (SCCM) – Side 9 – CTGlobal

SCCM Client Actions Tool PowerShell Edition aka PoshCAT

Updated 28.08.2013 Description SCCM Client Actions Tool PowerShell Edition aka PoshCAT is a practical and simple PowerShell application for performing most common day-to-day administrative tasks on System Center 2012 Configuration Manager Clients. The tool allows running actions remotely on one or more computers simultaneously. A list of computers can be provided either from a file (CSV, TXT) or loaded from Configuration Manager Collection importer or through Add Computer prompt. You can find the old version from here SCCMCAT - https://sccmcat.codeplex.com/ by Christjan Schumann. Please read the documentation first and blog posts! Please read this post how to install PoshCAT - [...]

By Kaido Järvemets|2013-08-08T09:07:38+01:00august 8th, 2013|Configuration Manager (SCCM), Powershell, Scripting & Development|70 Comments

New Content on CM12SDK.Net

I just posted new content on CM12SDK.net How to modify Configuration Manager Client Cache Size How to Create a Software Update Deployment Template How to Create/Add Alerts for Software Update Deployments How to invoke Client Notification actions Configuration Manager 2012 Developer Excel Sheet – I removed all the old Excel sheets and now I have only one Excel sheet which contains all the necessary things. If you are working with Configuration Manager, then a few weeks ago we released our first version of WMI and PowerShell Explorer and there is one special feature for Configuration Manager administrators which allows you [...]

By Kaido Järvemets|2013-07-12T14:07:30+01:00juli 12th, 2013|Configuration Manager (SCCM)|2 Comments

New System Center 2012 Configuration Manager SP1 book

It’s truly with great pleasure and excitement I can announce that my new book System Center 2012 Configuration Manager SP1 Mastering the Fundaments, 2nd edition is finished, and will be available later in July. The new book not only covers how to get started correctly, it also includes information about the new Cloud features like Windows Intune integration (Mobile Device Management), Windows Azure distribution point (Cloud DP), Mac/Linux management, PKI, installing Configuration Manager on Windows Server 2012, deploying Windows 8, handling Windows & 3rd party updates and much more. ISBN for the book is 978-91-87445-01-9.

By Kent Agerlund|2013-07-03T11:10:32+01:00juli 3rd, 2013|Configuration Manager (SCCM)|23 Comments

Awarded Enterprise Client Management MVP 2013

Dear Kaido Jarvemets, Congratulations! We are pleased to present you with the 2013 Microsoft® MVP Award! This award is given to exceptional technical community leaders who actively share their high quality, real world expertise with others. We appreciate your outstanding contributions in Enterprise Client Management technical communities during the past year.

By Kaido Järvemets|2013-07-01T17:12:53+01:00juli 1st, 2013|Configuration Manager (SCCM), Personal|3 Comments

How to run Secunia CSI scanning without installing the CSI agent

Lately I have done a lot of Secunia CSI installations. One of the questions that keeps coming up is “what client scanning options do we have, if we do not install the CSI agent locally?”. You basically have three options as described below. Software Inventory You can use ConfigMgr Inventory and gather information about *.EXE, *.OCX and *.DLL files. This process will get the job done although you are gathering much more information than CSI requires. This method requires that the Site Server (where you installed CSI) have access to the Cloud based database hosted by Secunia. Network scanning Perform [...]

By Kent Agerlund|2013-07-01T08:36:01+01:00juli 1st, 2013|Configuration Manager (SCCM), General info|6 Comments

Coretech WMI & PowerShell Explorer Part II

As mentioned in my previous post (using the WMI feature of the tool) we have recently released a new tool – the Coretech WMI and PowerShell Explorer. For information about downloading and installing the tool checkout this blog post from Kaido Järvemets. The second main feature of the Coretech WMI and PowerShell Explorer is the PowerShell module. The intention with this module is to help you get started with Microsoft PowerShell and especially System Center 2012 Configuration Manager SP1 and PowerShell. The feature can be used to import custom PowerShell modules as well as built-in PowerShell modules. Once imported you [...]

By Kent Agerlund|2013-06-19T15:59:03+01:00juni 19th, 2013|Configuration Manager (SCCM), General info|3 Comments

Coretech WMI & PowerShell Explorer–Using the WMI feature

Earlier today Coretech released a brand new tool that we call Coretech WMI and PowerShell Explorer. For information about downloading and installing the tool checkout this blog post from Kaido Järvemets. The tool has two main features, a WMI and a PowerShell explorer. This blog post will explain how you can use the WMI feature. Working with Coretech WMI and PowerShell Explorer Connect to the local computer Root\Cimv2 Namespace Launch the Coretech WMI and PowerShell Explorer as Administrator. From the upper left corner, expand the Menu and click Connect. In the Connect dialog box, type the Namespace or use the [...]

By Kent Agerlund|2013-06-17T08:02:48+01:00juni 17th, 2013|Configuration Manager (SCCM), General info|1 Kommentar

Coretech WMI and PowerShell Browser

I´m happy to announce our first version of WMI and PowerShell Explorer tool. The main reason why I did this tool is to simplify my own work and hopefully, it will help others also who are working with Configuration Manager. Description · Coretech WMI and PowerShell Explorer is a freeware tool with two main feature sets. · A powerful WMI tool that allows you to connect to and work with WMI locally and remotely. With the tool you can browse WMI namespaces, classes, methods, properties and class instances. Besides being a WMI browser the Coretech WMI and PowerShell Explorer allows [...]

By Kaido Järvemets|2013-06-15T20:32:29+01:00juni 15th, 2013|Configuration Manager (SCCM), Powershell, Scripting & Development|18 Comments

SCCM 2012 PowerShell Class coming in the Fall

Summer is finally here, and what better to spend the Summer than developing a brand new System Center 2012 Configuration Manager PowerShell class. We (Kaido Jävemets & Kent Agerlund) are currently busy writing lots of labs and examples that will help you unleash the power of PowerShell. Why a PowerShell class you might ask? Well, because PowerShell is King and we love it The class will be running at a training center near you – and if not, please contact us. The agenda for the 3 day lab look like this: Mastering SCCM 2012 R2 with PowerShell Title: Mastering Configuration [...]

By Kent Agerlund|2013-06-15T12:32:24+01:00juni 15th, 2013|Configuration Manager (SCCM)|1 Kommentar

KB2828233 Update for System Center 2012 Endpoint Protection

Ok so this SCEP Update has been released some time ago, but i have seen and heard some confusion on how to get this Update installed properly into the ConfigMgr environments. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2828233 The KB2828233 update itself is a server update and you need to install it on your Primary Site servers as you do with the SP’s, CU’s and other Hotfixes. What it will do on the server is that it will: Install itself as an Update to Endpoint Protection to the local EP Client on the server. Create a Server Update Package in ConfigMgr in the Packages folder “Configuration [...]

By Henrik Hoe|2013-06-12T16:59:26+01:00juni 12th, 2013|Configuration Manager (SCCM), Security|4 Comments

News in configMgr 2012 R2

Today at TechED 2013 in New Orleans the System Center 2012 Configuration Manager and Service Pack 1 Overview WCA-B328 also contained some very need news about the upcoming ConfigMgr 2012 R2 release. Below are the info that I managed to take from a very awesome presentation. Windows 8.1 support for a lightweight ConfigMgr agent (BYOD) scenarios Corp owned devices still have the “full” ConfigMgr agent Mobile device management with Intune Some of the key take aways from the session was: Selective wipe New branding options for the portal Company Apps for IOS and Android Software push support for IOS Workplace [...]

By Kent Agerlund|2013-06-04T11:26:07+01:00juni 4th, 2013|Configuration Manager (SCCM)|1 Kommentar

Notes and slides from the TechEDNA 2013 precon – Simplify and Maximize System Management with Microsoft System Center 2012 SP1 – Configuration Manager: Notes from the Field

First, a huge thank to all the attendees in the Sunday precon session. Johan and I asked for questions in the morning, and I must say that I do not remember the last time we got so many good questions. Download the slide deck Download information about SQL recommendations: https://blog.ctglobalservices.com/kea/system-center-2012-configuration-manager-sql-recommendations/ SQL re-indexing scripts: http://ola.hallengren.com/sql-server-index-and-statistics-maintenance.html Working with Management Point and SQL replicas:Step-bystep guide to create a Management Point replica: https://blog.ctglobalservices.com/kea/working-with-database-replicas-on-your-management-point/ Download the Collection update scripts Migrate reports from ConfigMgr 2007 to ConfigMgr 2012: https://blog.ctglobalservices.com/kea/migrate-reports-from-sccm-2007-to-sccm-2012-sp1/ Update the package source location: https://blog.ctglobalservices.com/jgs/coretech-package-source-changer/ Shutdown tool: https://blog.ctglobalservices.com/kea/new-version-of-the-coretech-shutdown-tool/ Managing 3rd. party software updates: Complete SCUP 2012 [...]

By Kent Agerlund|2013-06-03T20:55:59+01:00juni 3rd, 2013|Configuration Manager (SCCM), Events|2 Comments

Where are my Software Update state messages

My experienced ConfigMgr 2007 administratos are wondering how it can be that Software Update compliance reports are not showing states like “Waiting for Maintenance Windows” but only Enforcement State unknown or Compliant. The answer to that question can be found in the State Message detail settings for the software update deployment. By default only Error and success messages are reported. Example 1 – using the default software update state details settings: Example 2 – Software Update deployment configured to send all state messages : Controlling the state message detail level The correct way to configure the state message [...]

By Kent Agerlund|2013-05-31T13:13:53+01:00maj 31st, 2013|Configuration Manager (SCCM), General info|3 Comments

Take control of your ConfigMgr Collections part 2

About two weeks ago I posted a PowerShell script that lists all the Collections Refresh date/time. Today I just posted another script to CM12SDK.net that lists all the Collections Maintenance Windows. You can create a CSV or an HTML report You can download this script from here

By Kaido Järvemets|2013-05-01T13:57:05+01:00maj 1st, 2013|Configuration Manager (SCCM), Powershell, Scripting & Development|Kommentarer lukket

Error when running Application reports in ConfigMgr 2012

During the SQL Reporting Services site system role, SCCM automatically create a login in SQL and assign the required permissions to the account that you have specified. However I have seen several times that the account do not have the permissions required to run some of the Application reports. When running the Software Distribution - Application Monitoring > All application deployments (advanced) report I get the following error An error has occurred during report processing. (rsProcessingAborted) Query execution failed for dataset 'FirstMatchingAppOrCollection'. (rsErrorExecutingCommand) The EXECUTE permission was denied on the object 'fnGetSiteNumber', database 'CM_PS1', schema 'dbo'. To solve the [...]

By Kent Agerlund|2013-04-30T15:08:00+01:00april 30th, 2013|Configuration Manager (SCCM), General info, SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS)|5 Comments

Take control of your ConfigMgr Collections part 1

If you are managing a large ConfigMgr environment, then it is important to know when your collections updating their memberships and if your collections are updating exactly the same time, then it may hit your SQL very badly. This script reads all the collections and you can specify which output you want – CSV or HTML. You can download the script from here

By Kaido Järvemets|2013-04-19T11:30:15+01:00april 19th, 2013|Configuration Manager (SCCM), Powershell, Scripting & Development|1 Kommentar

Create Collections based on Package/Application names

I just posted on CM12SDK.net a new PowerShell script that creates Collections based on Package/Application names. You can create Device & User collections with this script. You can download the script from here

By Kaido Järvemets|2013-04-19T09:14:41+01:00april 19th, 2013|Configuration Manager (SCCM), Powershell, Scripting & Development|Kommentarer lukket

System Center 2012 ConfigMgr Advanced infrastructure session notes

Here are the promised links to our demos from the advanced infrastructure session @MMS 2013 in Las Vegas. View the session on channel 9 and download slides: http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/MMS/2013/UD-B308 Working with Management Point and SQL replicas: Step-bystep guide to create a Management Point replica: https://blog.ctglobalservices.com/kea/working-with-database-replicas-on-your-management-point/ Video on setting up a Management point replica: http://myitforum.com/myitforumwp/2012/08/06/next-sccm-guru-webcast-features-brian-mason/ Working with Software Updates: Software Updates: http://blogs.technet.com/b/configmgrteam/archive/2013/03/27/software-update-points-in-cm2012sp1.aspx Installing Workgroup clients: Orchestrator runbook by Andreas Falck to install Workgroup clients with PKI http://falckbloggen.wordpress.com/2013/03/13/configuration-manager-2012-and-deploy-agent-to-dmz/ Distribution Points and WAN: Coretech Distribution Point Utilization Monitor: https://blog.ctglobalservices.com/kea/coretech-distribution-point-utilization-monitor/ Brian Mason on twitter: @AbetterPC Brian Mason blog: http://www.mnscug.org/blogs/brian-mason Kent Agerlund on twitter: @Agerlund

By Kent Agerlund|2013-04-17T13:58:43+01:00april 17th, 2013|Configuration Manager (SCCM)|7 Comments

Coretech Distribution Point Utilization Monitor

Ever wanted to see how much content is being downloaded by each ConfigMgr. client and from where? Then look no further, the Coretech Distribution Point utilization monitor will give you the answers. The tool has a server portion with a database and a client that you install on all distribution points. Once a day the client (agent on the Distribution Point) will collect information from the IIS log files, convert the files to a CSV format and copy them to the server. The server uses a scheduled task in Windows to import all data into the database. Once in the [...]

By Kent Agerlund|2013-04-16T23:45:42+01:00april 16th, 2013|Configuration Manager (SCCM), General info|31 Comments

Slide deck from Birds of a Feather “BOF08 PowerShell – Examples from the Real Word”

First, a huge thank to all of you who decided to spend a Wednessday evening in Las Vegas with Kaido and I – we hoped for 20 and 4 times that number showed up. The slide deck from BOF sessions are not available on http://www.2013mms.com/ You can download our slide deck from the BOF08 PowerShell – Examples from the Real Word session here

By Kent Agerlund|2013-04-11T15:14:03+01:00april 11th, 2013|Configuration Manager (SCCM), General info|1 Kommentar

Deploy Windows 8 Enterprise x86 on a UEFI x86 device using SCCM 2012 SP1

New Toys For The Boys Don’t we all love new toys, especially the ones that require an occasional recharge. The latest thing I got my hands on is the Lenovo Tablet 2, a very nice 10” tablet thing, with a couple of nice add-ons, like a docking station, Bluetooth keyboard and a pen like stylus. But what I really like about it is that it runs a full version of Windows 8 x86, which means that I can deploy its OS over and over again So I fired up my SCCM Console to do exactly that … The Drivers [...]

By Ronnie Jakobsen|2013-04-03T23:07:11+01:00april 3rd, 2013|Configuration Manager (SCCM), General info, OS Deployment, Windows Client, Windows Server|14 Comments

Getting ready for MMS 2013

It’s that time of year again – MMS in Vegas. This year I’ll be (co)-hosting 6 sessions – if you still have an empty slot in your schedule please consider one of these Managing Third Party Updates with System Center 2012 Configuration Manager SP1 - Sunday, April 7, 5:00 PM - 6:15 PM Kent Agerlund, Lawrence Garvin The session will provide you with tips and tricks to solve the daily challenges around patching your environment with Microsoft and non-Microsoft updates. You will learn how to design and configure a Software Update solution that will be easy to manage and yet [...]

By Kent Agerlund|2013-04-02T17:47:52+01:00april 2nd, 2013|Configuration Manager (SCCM), General info|1 Kommentar

Awarded Most Valuable Proffesional– MVP 2013

What a nice day, Sun is shining, the snow is melting and I just got this mail Dear Kent Agerlund, Congratulations! We are pleased to present you with the 2013 Microsoft® MVP Award! This award is given to exceptional technical community leaders who actively share their high quality, real world expertise with others. We appreciate your outstanding contributions in System Center Configuration Manager technical communities during the past year.

By Kent Agerlund|2013-04-01T16:49:42+01:00april 1st, 2013|Configuration Manager (SCCM), Personal|6 Comments

System Center 2012 Configuration Manager SP1 Cumulative Update 1 PowerShell Parameter Sets Excel Sheet

I just updated the SP1 RTM version of Configuration Manager 2012 SP1 RTM PowerShell Parameter Sets Excel sheet and with SP1 CU1 we have 511 CMDLETS and 1675 parametersets :) You can download the Excel Sheet from here Happy Scripting Kaido

By Kaido Järvemets|2013-03-25T14:24:38+01:00marts 25th, 2013|Configuration Manager (SCCM), Powershell, Scripting & Development|Kommentarer lukket

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