GarthMJ

Set the permission on one report. wait 10 minutes. Does the permission on the report get updated?

see this blog post. http://www.enhansoft.com/blog/disappearing-permissions-for-ssrs-reports-in-system-center-2012-configuration-manager

Again, I'm asking exactly what do you setup for boundaries?

Simple you are force overriding the site assignment. It is not use the automatic site assignment.

First off a 2 hour MW, IMO is to small, I recommend nothing less than 4 hours. Secondly the only way a follow-up SU will apply is in there is another deployment during that MW, otherwise that is the expected. Even then it is rare to an a follow up SU during a particular monthly SU cycle. So yes in a nutshell you gut is right. if you need "proof" then you will need to get your TAM to provide it.

What exactly is IP Network? is the IP range or IP subnet? What exactly are the subnet masks of your clients? What exactly is the IP subnet mask for your AD subnets?

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That sound like your boundaries are not right. What type of boundaries are you using?

No, there is no place to see this.

So that suggest that the client has been installed correctly. it is unclear to me exactly what problem you are having, does the client send inventory to your site server? Does the client any deployments? What six tabs are you talking about?

There is nothing built-in to CM12 for this.

Then build a new site and slow migrate clients from one to the other.

There is nothing built-in to CM12 to do this. However if you can figure out how to determine the license key data manually, then you can create a way for CM12 to inventory it.

Yes this can be done as a report but without anymore details on what and how you are doing things.

SQL doesn't always like having the server rename after SQL has been installed. I would install SQL after your rename the server. Both SQL and Windows upgrade are fro the most part a "next, next,next" type of thing. Some might argue that a side-by-side is more work but it will also be the safest. so what is the most important factors for you?

Keep in mind that a side by side will mean that you need to either re-install or re-assign the CM12 clients. There are pro and cons to this but it is a good option, if you don't like upgrading everything.

Have you looked at the built-in reports for this?

You are out of luck as it doesn't work that way.

So this would mean that you would: Need to create a CAS (bad idea, you could never get rid of it) You would need to use a new site code (but client would NOT automatically re-assign themselves, so this would give you nothing) Hopefully these two blog posts will shed some light on your upgrade options. http://www.enhansoft.com/blog/upgrading-a-configuration-manager-2012-database-from-sql-2008-to-sql-2012 http://www.enhansoft.com/blog/upgrading-sccm-2012-r2s-site-server-operating-system

This old blog post will help you. http://smsug.ca/blogs/garth_jones/archive/2013/02/28/mac-address-report.aspx

Yes that make sense but when the image is deployed you will see that all the SU are installed on the new computers.

What do you mean by CM12 does not detect the installed SU? Any installed SU will be shown in the SU reports, so....

There is no simple (or automated) way to do this using WQL. So yes you will need to do this within SSRS/SQL.

You can't use Count function in WQL. Also keep in mind that you query will only find x86 version of Java.

Have you looked at the built-in NIC reports? BTW, I generally don't recommend that you add IP address to reports.