Clean Up Old Hardware Inventory Data
In SCCM, after removing WMI classes that are no longer required from configuration.mof and sms_def.mof, the inventory data still exists in few places. If you decide to clean them up, MyITForum.com has a great WIKI page for SCCM hardware inventory which talked about different ways to clean up hardware inventory data. I have tried the [...]
Error 80041001 in InventoryAgent.log after mof files modifications
I’ve been playing with SCCM mof files this weekend. After I’ve extended configuration.mof and sms_def.mof files to inventory a registry key during hardware inventory, I noticed below error logged in InventoryAgent.log on SCCM client: Unknown error encountered processing an instance of class <name of the WMI class>: 80041001 I checked the SCCM client, the WMI [...]
“Orphaned” Maintenance Windows for SCCM clients
Last week, in my SCCM test environment, I noticed there are several maintenance windows applied to clients that I had no idea where were they come from. Symptoms: When using SCCM Client Center, it shows this particular client (MGMT01) has 3 maintenance windows (service window) assigned to it: PolicySpy from ConfigMgr 2007 Toolkit also shows [...]
SCCM Package stuck at “Install Pending” state
Last week, someone power cycled one of our secondary site server (also a DP) via the remote management card without shutting down the OS first. At that time, a software update deployment package (total size of 13MB) was being pushed to this site. As result, this particular update package got stuck at “Install Pending” even [...]
SCCM Health Check PowerShell Script Updated to Version 3.3
I have updated the SCCM Health Check Script again. The latest version is now 3.3. Below is what’s been updated since my last post for version 3.1: Fixed the bug where when using DOTNET sending emails to multiple recipients, it only sends to the first recipient from the list. It now zip the txt attachment [...]
PowerShell Script to locate SCCM objects in SCCM console
There are many object types in SCCM that supports folders in the console. Even though the object can be easily located using the search function, often we need to find out which folder does a particular object (i.e. package, advertisement, etc) reside. At work, we use folders to separate objects for different business units and [...]
Creating a collection in SCCM for “all SCOM 2007 R2 agents without Cumulative Update 4 installed”
Recently I’ve been working on deploying a SCOM environment to monitor SCCM infrastructure. Initially we used SCCM to deploy SCOM agents out to all SCCM servers as it is our preferred method to deploy any apps. By doing so, SCOM agents are considered “Manually Installed” in SCOM, therefore I cannot simply approve updates in SCOM [...]
Setting SMS_INSTALL_DIR_PATH Environment variable on SCCM site servers for SCOM SCCM management pack
According to the “Configuration Manager 2007 SP2 Management Pack User’s Guide for Operations Manager 2007 R2 and Operations Manager 2007 SP1” (for MP version 6.0.6000.2), An environment variable named “SMS_INSTALL_DIR_PATH” needs to be created on all SCCM site servers. I had to do this on 80+ site servers, so I thought why not do this [...]
Updated: SCCM Health Check PowerShell Script
I have updated the SCCM Health Check Script that I have originally posted here. Download Version 3.1 Here. Changes: 1. The script can now utilise Powershell Remoting to check inboxes sizes. It requires PS-Remoting to be enabled on all SCCM Site Servers. This dramatically reduced the execution time of the script in a multi-tier environment. [...]