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RE: [mssms] Secunia

Hi Todd/Steven, If you are looking for a simple solution for patch management using SCUP check out our demo's here: https://patchmypc.net/scup and https://patchmypc.net/documentation. Please let me know if you have any questions, and feel free to ping me offline if you think we may be a good s

[mssms] RE: KB 2938066?

Or you could just enable TLS on your wsus box? From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] on behalf of Wood, Sandy [sandy.w...@da.ocgov.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2014 6:49 PM To: mssms@lists.myitforum.com Subject: [mssms] RE

Re: [mssms] RE: Config Manager 2012R2 and Powershell

Hi Ryan, just to let you know you can do DetectDeploymentTypeByCustomScript switch and ScriptContent & ScriptType for detection methods outside of MSI Deployment types we have just used this one, works pretty well with an automated task we put in. Cheers Steve From: Ryan Sent: ‎Thur

Re: [mssms] RE: Config Manager 2012R2 and Powershell

Ah, gotcha. I think you are going to be able to do most of your job through Powershell. You will not be able to do much with Task Sequences, but otherwise I think you'll be fine managing collections, devices, applications, infrastructure, etc. You will run across a few things every now and then th

[mssms] RE: KB 2938066?

I stuck that post out there today and was hoping to get a better response than wait and see... Sandy Wood Network Engineer Orange County District Attorney (714) 347-8775 -Original Message- From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Russ

[mssms] KB 2938066?

Has anyone updated their SCCM WSUS with KB 2938066? Thankfully MS has a client update for Win 8 and Server 2012, but it looks like Win 7 machines will need to "AutoUpdate". So far, I've found this blog: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/4ed5056f-4c7b-44a3-9d77-8e16611e3335/wsus

[mssms] Re: Small % of Config Manager Flash Application Upgrades Failing

Hi everyone, in particular John Marcum, We upgraded a small group of computers to Flash 14.0.0.145 yesterday and found that a couple of computers failed to upgrade Flash correctly (still). 95% of computers were successful, 5% were not. We are using the Adobe Flash MSI's for both the active x an

RE: [mssms] Secunia

I find the scanning portion of the tool to work very well. You can scan using a client on the system, or it can be made to scan against software inventory data in SCCM. I choose to scan against SCCM software inventory data, but that does mean you have to turn on SCCM software inventory which p

Re: [mssms] Server 2012

Hi Monica, Are the servers in SCCM without the client installed or has SCCM not yet discovered them? Cheers Steve From: Readenour, Monica Sent: ‎Thursday‎, ‎10‎ ‎July‎ ‎2014 ‎2‎:‎18‎ ‎AM To: mssms@lists.myitforum.com We are having a new issue. Our server team is starting to depl

RE: [mssms] RE: USMT v4 restore fails

2014-07-10 03:22:11, Info [0x00] Success.[gle=0x0006] 2014-07-10 03:22:11, Info [0x00] USMT Completed at 2014/07/10:03:22:11.152[gle=0x0006] Loadstate finishes successfully but does have warnings below: ?2014-07-10 03:17:40, Warning

Re: [mssms] Secunia

"We have not implemented SCUP and it looks like we wouldn’t have to with Secunia" True, you might not need SCUP per se; but you'll still need a code-signing cert that your clients trust.  That's why I mention SCUP really; because if you've setup SCUP you've setup the code-signing certificate st

Re: [mssms] App Install successful via Software Center but status shows failed

Ditto:  check the detection method.  Sometimes it's just something goofy, like a misspelling.  We also found (rarely, but it's happened once or twice) if people modified the application and detection logic lots and lots of times... the policy that the client was getting didn't match the policy 

RE: [mssms] RE: Remediation Script for Compliance Item not working.

No dice with the VB remediation script either. Forgot to mention earlier we’re on 2012 R2 CU2. From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Krueger, Jeff Sent: Wednesday, July 9, 2014 3:46 PM To: mssms@lists.myitforum.com Subject: RE: [mssms] RE: Rem

RE: [mssms] App Install successful via Software Center but status shows failed

Hi rich, In my experience this typically comes down to the detection method not being correct, where the app will install as it is required, but when the scan to detect runs it cant find the app Hope that helps Steve From: Rich Coulter

RE: [mssms] Secunia

I am currently using it after my POC stage. My biggest issue (which I am told will be fixed in a newer release) is that we did not buy a license for all our machines. They said they only wanted to tackle desktops and not servers. So the issue is that when I setup a scheduled scan I have to impo

[mssms] App Install successful via Software Center but status shows failed

Curious if anyone has ever ran into a scenario where an application installs successfully via Software Center, however, in the Installation Status it reports the application Failed. Subsequently, if you investigate the Monitoring workspace the app install doesn't show it was successful either, b

RE: [mssms] RE: Remediation Script for Compliance Item not working.

Ooh PowerShell = techsexy, lol. I’ll give it a shot with the VB, just kind of weird cause the discover script is PowerShell and that works no problem. From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Sherry Kissinger Sent: Wednesday, July 9, 2014 3:22 PM

RE: [mssms] Secunia

Thanks for that Sherry. The best part is our engineering team is not even in the discussions for this. Internal politics here might get this bought and we just have to figure out how to run it. We have not implemented SCUP and it looks like we wouldn't have to with Secunia. I did bring up Sh

Re: [mssms] How to find the collection's WQL query

You can use select * from Collections where SiteID = 'SMS1' then select * from Collection_Rules_SQL where CollectionID=2 This should give you the WQL query and SQL query too. On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 12:27 PM, Kevin Ray wrote: > Hi All, > > My SCCM console is very slow.. So if i want ch

Re: [mssms] Secunia

I've used it in a lab environment--and it's quite nice.  We haven't bought it (yet--internal politics, who is going to pay for it, that kind of thing; but I have high hopes). I can't think of anything bad about their product at all.  It's all good.  Contact them for a demo is the easiest.   To

RE: [mssms] RE: Config Manager 2012R2 and Powershell

Well, to make a really long and complex answer shorter and less complex. I’m blind, and I use a screen reader to navigate windows. I use keyboard commands to get around, and my screen reader reads the focused item. With the SCCM 2007 console this worked really well. The console had its short

Re: [mssms] RE: Remediation Script for Compliance Item not working.

I know this isn't powershell, which is techsexy, it's plain old vbscript.  however... we did just send it out to 200k clients in the last 2 months, to make ccmcache 25gb on NON-Virtual Machines, if they happened to have enough free space to allow that to be done.  Those were our parameters: don'

[mssms] Secunia

Hey all, Does anyone have any good/bad information on Secunia? There is a move here to look into this for addressing vulnerabilities. Just curious if you have had dealings with it as a solution. Thanks, Steven CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail and any fil

Re: [mssms] RE: Config Manager 2012R2 and Powershell

Is there a reason you don't want to use the console? I'm all for using Powershell as much as possible, but I generally use the console for day to day tasks. I only switch to Powershell when I have to automate setting multiple things or am searching for something specific (like all collections with

[mssms] RE: Remediation Script for Compliance Item not working.

I don't use a ton of PowerShell, but the big issue I ran into was 32 vs 64 bit PowerShell. This is the command I used for launching a script in 64-bit PowerShell. %systemroot%\sysnative\windowspowershell\v1.0\powershell.exe -executionpolicy unrestricted .\NeedReboot.ps1 From: listsad...@lists

[mssms] RE: Config Manager 2012R2 and Powershell

Thanks everyone. I thought 2012R2 was only at CU1 and not CU2? We do have CU1 installed. I'll look at the connect sites, but is there a good list comparing what you can do through the GUI and what you can do through the Powershell CLI? Let's look at basic tasks such as managing collections,

Re: [mssms] RE: USMT v4 restore fails

what does your loadstate.log file say, that will explain the issue hopefully. On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 8:05 PM, Timothy Ransom wrote: > > > Thanks. > > I have only (5) PCs with this issue at 95% completion of migrating 6k PCs > from XP to Windows 7 x64. > > Two are mid-level managers that are ver

[mssms] RE: Config Manager 2012R2 and Powershell

I agree completely. PowerShell is great for automation in SCCM 2012. It's great for doing repetitive tasks and ensuring that they are done consistently. There are some things though that you will just have to use the GUI for, like editing task sequences. Mike From: listsad...@lists.myitfor

[mssms] RE: Config Manager 2012R2 and Powershell

Full time? No, there are some things you cannot do with PowerShell, such as edit task sequences. You can do a lot with WMI, but if you are going to use the native cmdlets make sure you are on 2012 R2 CU2. They have made a lot of updates to the cmdlets, and continue to. For an idea of any exist

[mssms] RE: USMT v4 restore fails

Thanks. I have only (5) PCs with this issue at 95% completion of migrating 6k PCs from XP to Windows 7 x64. Two are mid-level managers that are very upset at lost data. Other PCs are successful today with same USMT4 step in osd ts. From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists

[mssms] Config Manager 2012R2 and Powershell

Hi all: Question. I know that SCCM 2012R2 can be administered through Powershell. Has anyone tried this fulltime, AKA used Powershell to admin SCCM completely in place of the SCCM console? If so, any good guides on how to do this? Any pitfalls, AKA areas Powershell just doesn't cover

[mssms] Remediation Script for Compliance Item not working.

I made a compliance item for the ccmcache size. The discover script is working correctly, but the remediation script below is not working. I'm not seeing any errors in the client logs though those may be some of the most cryptic logs I've seen. $CacheQuery = Get-WmiObject -Namespace ROOT\CCM\

[mssms] RE: USMT v4 restore fails

I'm very interested in what you find. I just opened a case with Microsoft for this. If you don't get it resolved before I do, I will let you know what the outcome is. I'm having profiles with no data running an OSD task sequence with USMT included. From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto

[mssms] FW: USMT v4 restore fails

Actually profiles are restored but folders are empty! From: Timothy Ransom Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2014 1:28 PM To: mssms@lists.myitforum.com Subject: USMT v4 restore fails Hi, Just having first experience with USMT v4 restore failures during OSD. Where is USMT v4 hardlink data stored locally

[mssms] USMT v4 restore fails

Hi, Just having first experience with USMT v4 restore failures during OSD. Where is USMT v4 hardlink data stored locally in Windows 7? Can I retrieve hardlink data for manual restore? Thanks, Tim ** GDOL

[mssms] Windows Setup (PC Name) - Win8.1

I have a question regarding Windows 8.1 setup during an OSD Deployment from SCCM 2012. Because of the way we do imaging (and our PC naming convention), I need to be able to have the old "Choose a username for your account and name your computer to distinguish it on the network: screen be pre

[mssms] SCCM 2012 Task Sequence Saving Problem

We're working on migrating from SCCM 2007 to 2012 and I've run into a problem saving our OSD task sequence in SCCM 2012. I'll make an edit, just a single edit and when I hit "Apply" I'll get this error: [cid:image001.png@01CF9B75.511CE200] It doesn't matter if I try modifying the task sequence

[mssms] Server 2012

We are having a new issue. Our server team is starting to deploy server 2012 R2. We are running SCCM 2012 SP1, not R2. We have client push set to install on only workstations but the server 2012’s are getting client installed. Any idea why this would be? Confused in mid Missouri. Thanks,

RE: [mssms] RE: SCCM Client Crashing on Manual Install

Where is your source? Can you pull it from the client folder on your site server? Basically try another source. Daniel Ratliff From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of DENZIK, JOSHUA Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2014 10:06 AM To: mssms@lists.myitfo

RE: [mssms] RE: SCCM Client Crashing on Manual Install

I have tried without the patch parameters and with only running ccmetup.exe, it crashes no matter how I run the command line. Any suggestions? From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of John Aubrey Sent: Tuesday, July 8, 2014 4:36 PM To: 'mssms@list

Re: [mssms] More newbie questions

step 3 here shows you how to do the Client Push method, this step is also referenced in the initial blog where I discuss how to deploy the client agent using t

RE: [mssms] More newbie questions

I use Push exclusively as well. I am lucky if I can get critical patches pushed out when no one is working through WSUS and prefer not to mess with GP if I don’t have to. From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Marcum, John Sent: Wednesday, Jul

RE: [mssms] More newbie questions

I agree with Trevor. I use client push exclusively and mostly always have however it doesn't work in all situations. Also once you get more familiar with things look at Jason Sandys client health script. From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of T