How to locate SCCM Collection Object based on the Collection ID
Often, I found it’s hard to locate the Collection object in the SCCM console if you only know the Collection ID. Couple of weeks ago I ran into a situation where I need to modify the settings of a bunch of collection objects and all I knew was the Collection ID. I wrote a script [...]
Hyper-V virtual machines with “Missing” status
I’m currently running Hyper-V R2 on a machine with 24GB of memory at home. It hosts most of my test machines such as SCCM, SCOM, Exchange, etc. System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 (VMM) is installed on a separate box to manage this Hyper-V Host. Few days ago the Hyper-V machine was powered off [...]
Incorrect description in SCCM Report License 03B – Computers with a specific license status (Report ID 350)
On the SCCM Report “License 03B – Computers with a specific license status” (Report ID 350, category Asset Intelligence), the description states there are 5 possible values for license status: This is incorrect. SCCM collects licensing data from client’s WMI class SoftwareLicensingProduct in root\cimv2 namespace and regarding to below MSDN article, there are 7 possible [...]