When running the Antimalware Activity Report, the Malware Activity section of the report failed to run and showed the error “Subreport could not be shown”. The environment is System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) 2007 R2, Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010 and SQL Server 2005 SP4. In order to fix the error I added the -g startup [...]
As part of an operating system deployment task in System Center Configuration Manager 2007 R2 (SCCM), I needed to enable the .NET Framework 3.5.1 Feature on Windows Server 2008 R2. I thought it would be easy to do this as part of the task sequence, but it proved trickier than I expected. I added a “Run Command [...]
During a recent project to roll out Windows Updates using System Center Configuration Manger 2007 R2 (SCCM) I wanted to deploy updates to a user group. Unfortunately, SCCM will only deploy Windows Updates to a collection that contains computers, not users. I used the code below to create a SCCM collection that contains the computer that was [...]
If you need a list of System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) collections with maintenance windows, run this query against the SCCM site database using SQL Server Management Studio. SELECT c.Name, c.Comment,SW.Description, SW.StartTime, SW.Duration FROM v_ServiceWindow SW JOIN v_Collection C ON C.CollectionID = SW.CollectionID ORDER BY c.Name
These are brief notes on how configure ForeFront Endpoint Protection (FEP) 2010 to work with System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) 2007 R2 and set the FEP client to receive definition updates from the SCCM server. Install the FEP 2010 prerequisites on the SCCM http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff823830.aspx Install FEP on the server. I chose a Basic installation as I wanted all [...]
This post describes how I deployed the Intel AMT/HECI/SOL Drivers using System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM). I was deploying the drivers to Dell OptiPlex desktops and Latitude laptops, so I downloaded the drivers from http://support.euro.dell.com/ . The drivers download as compressed files, so I extract them using 7-zip http://www.7-zip.org/. This leaves you with a set of files like those [...]
As part of an Intel AMT deployment I needed to update the BIOS on our Dell OptiPlex desktops and Latitude laptops. I created a package to run the BIOS update and added this to the operating system task sequence. Firstly, download the BIOS update from Dell technical support http://support.euro.dell.com/support/ The BIOS file will be named something [...]
When using System Center Configuration Manger 2007 R2 (SCCM) with Intel vPro/AMT technology, there’s two stages to the provisioning process. In the second stage the SCCM server attempts to connect to the device that’s being provisioned. This can fail if the SCCM server has a proxy configured without the required proxy exceptions resulting in the [...]
I needed a list of the Dell service tags from all our desktops and laptops. Dell have a product called the Dell Management Console (DMC) http://dell.symantec.com/dmc-tech which can do this, but as we have System Center Configuration Manager 2007 R2 (SCCM) I wanted to use that. Below is the SQL I used to create the report in [...]
I recently needed to discover how many computers had Office 2000 installed. System Center Configuration Manager 2007 R2 (SCCM) includes a report called “Computers with specific software registered in Add Remove Programs”, but I wanted to know when the computer was last inventoried and also the specific application version. I cloned the report and updated [...]
