Author: Jörgen Nilsson

In many cases there are a need create a collection with either all Windows 7 – x86 or all Windows 7 x64 installed. This can be used for targeting only a specific platform with an update or a program. I do this by querying the SCCM inventory, SMS_G_System_COMPUTER_SYSTEM.SystemType which returns “x64-based PC”or “X86-based PC”. Query to…

I stumbled accross this updated article on Technet this morning about what’s new in FEP 2010 Update Rollup 1. I guess this means that the Forefront Update Rollup 1 is soon to be released! The download link doesn’t work yet but I am sure it will soon 😀 Here is the link to the download…

When you use System Center Updates Publisher(SCUP) to publish updates to SCCM/WSUS so that they can be deployed as patches you have to have a code-signing certificate, as many guides describes out there. If you use the WSUS self-generated you need to distribute the self-signed certificate to the client computers using either SCCM or a…

There was a question in the Technet forum for a report with Last Hardware and Last Software inventory date per collection. Therefor I added the CollectionID as a condition for the built-in report “Clients that have not reported recently (in a specified number of days)” so that it can be run per collection. This can…

There was a question asked in the Microsoft Technet forum after a report which displayed all virtual application packages in the site. From that I got the idea to add a column to the normal All Packages report which contains the Packagetype. After the modification the report looks has a new column called Package Type…

Forefront Endpoint Protection 2012 Beta 2 is now available! During the second half of 2011 Microsoft will release the next version of System Center Configuration Manager 2012 and in near future after that a new version of FEP will also be released. The new version of FEP will be integrated with SCCM 2012 so you…

I have run into the fact a couple of times at customers that there is no valid backup of SCCM that can be used, so I thought it was time to share it. When doing backup of a SCCM primary site there is only one supported way to do it and that is using the…

In March me and Stefan Schörling, www.msfaq.se hosted a Livemeeting in Swedish(!) with the topic “SCCM 2007 Tips och tricks”. We did it for the System Center User Groups Sweden members. More events are planned in the future by the user group, be sure to check them out at www.scug.se The recording is now published…