When upgrading certain applications for instance plug-ins to Internet Explorer, Internet explorer must not be running if the upgrade is to be successful. I answered this question on the Technet forum during the week and I thought I would share the simple script here. I have a more advanced script which prompts the user to…
Suggested hotfixes for WMI related issue on Windows platforms
Last week a KB-article was released with “Suggested hotfixes for WMI related issue on Windows platforms”. It really recommend that you read it because WMI is critical to Configuration Manager, Group polices, Operations Manager and so on. As you all know without working WMI we cannot manage the systems out there. I will deploy the…
FEP 2010 Update Rollup 1 – SoftwareUpdateAutomation
After 4 weeks’ vacation I started working again and the first thing I planned to do was to implement the new feature in FEP 2010 Update Rollup 1 for automating approval of FEP 2010 definition updates in SCCM instead of doing it separately in WSUS on the SCCM server as many of us do today….
Configuration Manager 2007 SP2 hotfix list
I have put together a list of hotfixes for Configuration Manager 2007 with descriptions and download links. I started doing it together with a colleague (thanks Ola) and thought that more people could have use for it. My plan is to keep this up to date as new hotfixes are released in the future and include…
Query to determine 32 or 64 bit Operating System
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…
What’s New in FEP 2010 Update Rollup 1
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…
System Center Updates Publisher and OSD
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…
SCCM Report – Clients that have not reported recently – Per Collection
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…