Ran into a problem where WMI stopped responding on a Windows 2008 R2 server which we use to host a Primary Site server. Applied these two hotfixes on the Windows 2008 R2 server which are both related to WMI memory leaks, and now the system is running as a dream! KB981314 – The “Win32_Service” WMI class leaks memory in
There are many great new features in the new SCCM 2007 R3 – Beta which is available for download from Microsoft Connect. Features like centralized Power Management, Delta Active Directory Discovery, Dynamic Collection addition and Prestaged Media OS deployment support are really cool. There are some other smaller but still great improvements in the SCCM Console
A new version of the System Center Configuration Manager Toolkit, “V2” has been released. New tools are: MP Troubleshooter Tool Delete Group Class Tool Preload Package Tool Send Schedule Tool. These tools where available in the SMS 2003 Toolkit and are now included in the System Center Configuration Manager Toolkit V2 in updated versions. They can be found
This reports will help you plan you roll-out project and plan it by presenting a report with a count of each computer model per collection. If you already have collections in SCCM per site, per department, per subnet or whatever you wan’t, you can use them to report which models exist. The reports can be
I have used this report so many times now I just have to share it. It will show all computer with a specific file in a specific collection, and has shown to be very useful. Thanks to my colleague Ola Ahrens for applying the finishing touches. The report mof file can be downloaded here.
To sum up the serial number reporting I have been working on at a customer. This post covers how to update the builtin report "Hardware 01A – Summary of computers in a specific collection", to display the serial number from the value inventoried from the BIOS instead of the value inventoried using System Enclosure. The
I got this request from a customer and thought I could share it. Below query describes how to modify the query for the built-in report “Computer information for a specific computer” to include serial number. The added sql commands are marked in red color if you want to change it yourself instead of copying the SQL
When working with the reports in SCCM you may want a report to get all the serial numbers for all computers. Below is a very simple report which includes: Name, Manufacturer, Serial number, Model. It will look like this: SQL Satement: select v_R_System.Name0, v_GS_PC_BIOS.Manufacturer0, v_GS_PC_BIOS.SerialNumber0,v_GS_COMPUTER_SYSTEM.Model0 FROM v_R_System JOIN v_GS_PC_BIOS on v_R_System.ResourceID = v_GS_PC_BIOS.ResourceID JOIN v_GS_COMPUTER_SYSTEM
