Hi Everyone , Hope you are doing great! Today i am writing about an scenario which talks about automating SCCM record removal through Orchestrator . The runbook once created will look like the following : You can use the following Powershell script to remove the record from the database : $error.clear() powershell{ cd "D:\Program Files\Microsoft... Continue Reading →
SQL query for SCCM to pull out Hostname, Ip Address , OU location and Operating system
Hi everyone , A simple sql query that will get you the hostname , IP address , OU location and operating system details from your SCCM database . Select s.Netbios_Name0,ip.IP_Addresses0, s.Distinguished_Name0,s.operatingSystem0, s.Operating_System_Name_and0 from v_RA_System_IPAddresses AS IP inner join v_R_System AS S on ip.ResourceID=s.ResourceID where operatingSystem0 like '%Server%'; My requirement was for servers , but if... Continue Reading →
Update Rollup 1 for Microsoft System Center 2016 Orchestrator is now available
Voila ! Hi everyone , today i will cover how to go about installing 2016 Orchestrator step by step and also to let you know that the Microsoft System Center 2016 Orchestrator General Availability Update Rollup is now available. This update rollup package provides a collection of minor improvements to Orchestrator and recommendation is that... Continue Reading →
SCCM report to show disk utilization for all endpoints
Hi There , Yesterday i had a requirement to go through the disk space utilization for all the servers in our environment to keep a track before year end . Now remember we are not looking for a report that shows low disk space which you can readily get through SCCM reports . This report... Continue Reading →
Installing Java through SCUP leaves system non-complaint after Move-AV client blocks install
Hi Everyone , For those of you who are using SCUP to update java need to be careful for one very important scenario which might leave your client ( Servers in my case ) without any version of Java . We faced an issue last week when we had a patching window and since we... Continue Reading →
Deploying MS Office 2010 through SCCM 2012 SP1 R2:
Deploying Office 2010 through SCCM 2012 SP1 R2: Hi All, I was going through the office installation today with some custom requirements where we want to deploy Office 2010 with the following components: Excel Word PowerPoint I will be deploying the Volume License edition of Microsoft Office 2010 Standard with SP1. You will need the... Continue Reading →
Updates not getting applied to OS after reboot
Hello Everyone , Today i will talk about an issue which is very common if you are dealing with patch management . Ever seen that you apply software updates to a system and after reboot when the system comes up we see the below given screen on the system . This means that anything applied to... Continue Reading →
Unable to see software updates in software center “Sources are not current”
Hi Everyone , Most of us have seen these lines in scanagent.log"Sources are not current" on the client machines . We tend to get confused and fail to understand where the issue is happening . So even if you try to reinstall the client , you will not be able to see any update in... Continue Reading →
How to run Hyper V on a guest Operating System on VMware host on Windows Server 2016
Hello Everyone , For those of you who feel inclined to try out nested virtualization feature in Windows Server 2016 but on a VMware host can refer to the following steps. I will discuss what issues i faced and how i fixed them. I started the install as usual going to the server manager and... Continue Reading →
How to enable Nested virtualization on a Server 2016 Standard and Datacenter edition
Server Virtualization : Windows Server 2016 introduces you to a concept of Nested virtualization . Now we all know what nested virtualization is and how it works but Server 2016 gives you the freedom and opportunity to test it real time . So just an overview about nested virtualization . Nested Virtualization makes it possible... Continue Reading →