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Top Console/Primary User
Check out this blog over at AskPFEPLat by Stephen Mathews. It’s another take on determine the primary user of a computer. Determining the Dominant User and Setting the ManagedBy Computer Attribute
Using PoSH to get Folder Size
I don’t know about you, but there are time when I am trying to track down where all my hard drive space is going. When your system has User Account Control (UAC) enabled, right clicking on a folder to get the properties may not always show the right size. I turn to PowerShell for a…
Turning NETSTAT results into an Object
A customer was trying to extract some data from the netstat command. The customer had already formed part of the syntax, but needed some additional assistance with filtering out the values they wished to see. Let’s take a look at the results of the netstat –nao command In this case, the customer wanted to…
Case of the never-ending Full Collection Evaluation
I was recently working with a customer with a large number of collections set for incremental evaluation. The customer had tuned the settings on the primary sites to only run incremental every 30 minutes, their evaluation of incremental normal takes between 10-15 minutes to complete. Recently, many of the collections began showing the hourglass…
New Configuration Manager 2012 R2 Disaster Recovery White Paper Published!
Hello, There is a new White Paper that has been published on Disaster Recovery. Check it out! http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=44295
Configuration Manager R2 Toolkit Release!
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=36213 Server Based Tools (NEW) DP Job Manager – A tool that helps troubleshoot and manage ongoing content distribution jobs to Configuration Manager distribution points. (NEW) Collection Evaluation Viewer – A tool that assists in troubleshooting collection evaluation related issues by viewing collection evaluation details. (NEW) Content Library Explorer – A tool that assists…
Import Computer Does Not Show Up in Collection
I was recently working with another PFE with a customer that has some pretty strict requirements around OSD collections. The customer has tiered collections that separate workstations and servers. The 3rd tier of collections (where OSD deployments are targeted) are each limited to the appropriate All Servers or All Workstation Collection. When…
Configuration Manager PowerShell – Administrative Model and Collection Creation
A problem of delegated administration I was recently on-site with a customer that had very specific requirements in regards to which Administrative Users had access to add devices to collections for Software Distribution. The design that they had come up with was not working as they had expected. After some discussion, we came up with…
Enterprise Windows 7/2008R2 SP1 Hotfix rollup KB2775511 Deployment with Configuration Manager
Check out this blog by another Configuration Manager PFE on how to sync this update in your environment for deployment. http://blogs.technet.com/b/michaelgriswold/archive/2013/03/13/kb2775511-deployment-for-the-sccm-admin.aspx