A friend of mine mentioned that he expectantly spent a few hours with glazed over eyes clicking “C” on the keyboard to press “Continue” on a dialog box that was being generated a few hundred times. He quickly acknowledged that
SCCM Application Requirement of MSI ProductCode
I had a situation recently where an application needed to be installed on all workstations (desktops and laptops) unless another application was installed. Traditionally I would use collections to accomplish this. create a collection “Deploy Mfg App vVersion – Exclusions”
SCEP 2012 client log files
Looking for client log files I had to do a bunch of digging. This is what I’ve concluded (for now). C:\Windows\Temp\ (technically the System Temp folder) MpCmdRun.log MpSigStub.log C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Microsoft Security Client\Support (technically the %ProgramData%\Microsoft\Microsoft Security Client\Support folder) EppSetup.log EppSetup_#.log MSSecurityClient_Setup_<version>_epp_install.log MSSecurityClient_Setup_<version>_epp_uninstall.log
ConfigMgr Admin Console install notes
This is a FAST-PUBLISH article and is incomplete. A few quick notes on installing the ConfigMgr 2012 Admin Console. The console is a 32-bit (x86) application and it will run on many operating systems Install .NET Framework 4.0 Install the
A Collection of ConfigMgr 2012 Collection Queries
Tommy Gunn started a great post on this same topic at SystemCenterCentral. I’m adding my own here. *note: these are WQL queries for ConfigMgr/SCCM collections, but all will translate to T-SQL queries for reporting. Computers which are joined to a
ReportServerService logs not deleted
I was performing some initial discovery on a SCCM primary site server and noticed a lack of disk space. Using WinDirStat.exe I started digging deeper and discovered almost 100gb of ReportServerService_<timestamp>.log files. These are associated with the SQL Server Reporting
Creating Custom Active Directory Attributes
… how to create custom attributes in AD and link/assign/associate them to object Classes (computers, Users, etc.) First let me give credit to Farhan Kazi for a great article on how to do this with at post at http://fkazi.blogspot.com/2013/04/creating-custom-active-directory_27.html A
New Adventures
After 16 years and 1 day, I made the leap from IT Operations to IT Consulting. For the last 10 years I’ve worked in the outsourcing world supporting multiple customers for most of that time. Prior to that I worked in