The following SQL should help identify the state of impacted systems. Please review thoroughly before relying on this information, while I believe the results should be accurate, you should do your own due diligence. Please let me know if you find any errors or have any suggestions to return better data. More …

The following query will allow you to search the view v_R_user in the Microsoft Configuration Manager database so that you can identify a manager and then find everyone who works for that manager all the way down the tree. I've found this useful in the past for joining with other information in the database to identify …

I wrote the following script to quickly output how much disk space my SCCM Distribution Points consumed. If you're not running a CAS, you'll want to change line 21 to point to your primary. This requires that you have the Configuration Manager console installed on the machine. It's not pretty but it did the trick. I'm …

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 …

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. …

I wrote the following script to find inactive computers in Active Directory and then find & delete them from SCCM. Feel free to use & abuse as you see fit, but always run through a test environment first. My version makes sure to target only Windows Operating Systems, and excludes anything with Server in the caption - …

This post was previously released under a different blog and is being republished by me below. That site is no longer available. I am the original author. I created the following function to create Microsoft SMS 2003 Client Configuration Requests from within Excel and dump them all out into a temporary directory for me …