Archive for the ‘SCCM’ Category

September 3rd, 2010

System Center Inventory Tool (SCIT) 0.4 released!

1 Comment, SCCM, by Jeroen Erkelens.

Hi all, I made a preannouncement about my System Center Inventory Tool (SCIT for short) earlier. Today, I’ll release it’s…

July 30th, 2010

SCIT

No Comments, SCCM, by Jeroen Erkelens.

Hi all, I’m currently working on a script called “SCCM Client Inventory Tool”, or ‘SCIT’. SCIT allows an admin to…

June 24th, 2010

An honorable attempt to revive a SCCM server

1 Comment, SCCM, SQL, by Jeroen Erkelens.

I’ve been dropped in a SCCM environment that wasn’t going anywhere. All SCCM services were stopped, SCCM database file was 100+GB…

June 23rd, 2010

Remove non-existing site from Admin Console

No Comments, SCCM, by Jeroen Erkelens.

Through the SCCM admin console you can open a connection to a remote SCCM site. Whenever the site is removed,…

June 9th, 2010

Installer wrapper script

1 Comment, SCCM, by Jeroen Erkelens.

When chaining software installations by using a script, you sometimes may have to force any of the previous installers to…

June 1st, 2010

Trigger SCCM client actions

4 Comments, SCCM, by Jeroen Erkelens.

Hi again, Lately I’ve been trying to find ways to manually trigger software and hardware inventories. I spent quite some…

May 28th, 2010

Rebuild WMI from clean source

No Comments, SCCM, by Jeroen Erkelens.

As most of you already know is SCCM is mainly based on WMI (Windows Management Instrumentation). This is accessible and…

May 20th, 2010

Software deployment on logoff

2 Comments, SCCM, by Jeroen Erkelens.

Just a small note on something I found out when I received instructions to deploy software on machines when a…

May 11th, 2010

Collection hierarchy considerations

1 Comment, SCCM, by Jeroen Erkelens.

Whenever you start using SCCM for distributing software, you create your first collection with some machine names, package and advertisement…

May 6th, 2010

Software migration multiple version approach

3 Comments, SCCM, by Jeroen Erkelens.

Every SCCM administrator knows that software migration can be a pain. Software specific upgrades might pose problems if you haven’t…