I wrote the following function to rerun an advertisement on a remote client computer using either the AdvertisementID or the PackageID. Like all sample code found online, please run through a test environment first, and use at your own risk! 1<# …

I created the follow SQL query to create a batch file that uninstalls all known versions of a piece of software. Feel free to use and tweak as you see fit. You should build the query first to make sure you're only identifying the GUIDs for software you really want to uninstall. You'll need to setup SSMS to output as …

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 …