While using shared Google calendars is great way to keep yourself, your family, or your groups organized, they lack any type or real auditing at the event level. Specifically, I often need to find out when an event was created or modified. While this isn't available today through the GUI, it is available under the …

I recently wrote the following SQL Query to help identify which browsers are installed across our environment. A straight Add/Remove Programs (v_AddRemovePrograms) query didn't really return the data in such a way that made it easy to determine major version of Firefox or Chrome, and doesn't include Internet Explorer …

I frequently use this trick to manage collections of computers in SCCM where the original list comes from Excel, or from a query of another system that I can dump into Excel. Doing it this way, you don't have to rely on adding computers one at a time to a collection query or dumping systems into tools like the the …

As it's been around for years, I'm still surprised at how often I find someone who hasn't at least heard of Ninite. This application can possibly save you hours of setup and configuration each time you buy a new computer, or rebuild your existing one. Ninite aggregates the most popular freeware on to a single web page, …

I've had the opportunity to play in the Google Domains Beta program over the last two months. I submitted my name into the program sometime in late 2014 and was accepted (along with a lot of other people) in December. I moved my first domain over from my current registrar in February 2015 and registered my first new …

One of my distribution points recently stopped getting DP updates. I tried my normal troubleshooting steps - creating a new package, checking disk space, source folder permissions, server reboot, etc., but no dice. I reviewed the DISTMGR.LOG on the primary site responsible for the distribution point, and found the …

Recently I was troubleshooting a Windows 7 Service Pack 1 system where the CCM Client would not install manually or via push. The following was reported in the CCMSETUP.LOG: MSI: Setup was unable to compile Sql CE script file C:\Windows\CCM\CIStateDBUpgrade.sqlce. The error code is 87D00244. MSI: Action 13:27:05: …

I wrote the following queries to find the video resolutions used by clients reporting into SCCM. They currently only look at Windows Workstations 6.x (excludes servers, and also anything older than Windows Vista or whatever v7 ends up being), and only those who have submitted a hardware inventory in the last 30 days. …