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  1. GarthMJ
    It great that you have something working for you but IMO this will be a lot of work to maintain just like the reporting option above. If this works for you, then great.
  2. GarthMJ
    Use this blog post to troubleshoot HW inv. http://be.enhansoft.com/post/2013/07/25/Troubleshooting-Inventory-Flow.aspx
  3. GarthMJ
    1) I almost never recommend turn on SW inv. IMO it s a waste of time. Now to answer your questions. No the PC will preform SW inv when they power up. see comment above. Yes, SW in will take ~ 4 hours to run and clients will "feel" that it is running! Hence why I never recommend enabling SW inventory.
  4. GarthMJ
    The dups are going to be caused by Dual CPU PCs.
  5. GarthMJ
    :-) I'm glad you got it figure out.
  6. GarthMJ
    So how exactly would you determine that that OU is called Sacramento Desktops? It sound like a manual process to me. As such you can use a monster "Case" statement to convert each OU into a better description.
  7. GarthMJ
    What more descriptive name do you want? Where would you find these details in CM07/CM12?
  8. GarthMJ
    Why do you want to use SW inv anyways? I almost never recommend using it. BTW I did up a blog on why SW is sooo slow in CM12. For whatever reason I can't paste urls, so check out the http://be.enhansoft.com site and search for software inventory to see how slow it is.
  9. GarthMJ
    What do you mean by samba? Are you source files stored on a sumba server?
  10. GarthMJ
    Error 5 is generally Access Denied.
  11. GarthMJ
    Are the PCs still reporting to that primary site?
  12. GarthMJ
    It sound like you open a CSS support case for this. Right? This is NOT by design. Re-open the case and insist that they push this up a level or put it in writing (formal) that this is by design. If you get no where, send me you case id and I will push this from the product team end. The one thing to keep in mind is that in CM12 there is now business hours, just make sure that you are not looking at them.
  13. GarthMJ
    Use a subselect query. search my blog for "subset" www.smsug.ca, there are three blog post, 1 to explain subselect (called subset in my blog) ; one for how to do it within SQL and one for WQL.
  14. GarthMJ
    To capture this data, just enable the Baseboard class within CM12 Hardware Inventory section, this will allow the data to be captured. Are you only Lenovo PCs or do you have other types?
  15. GarthMJ
    It would be useful to other if you could tell us how you fixed this.
  16. GarthMJ
    CM12 will get the data from WMI via hardware inventory on the PC. if WMI is wrong then so will CM12. Check what is listed in resource explorer under the OS node.
  17. GarthMJ
    Hi Niall, that is right. VMs will never report any power usage and are therefore excluded. .
  18. GarthMJ
    Is that just for the Power Management reports or all CM12 reports?
  19. GarthMJ
    I just check and that report will Windows 8 and Windows 8.1. Can't check Win2k12r2 as I don't have any of them within the lab but Win2k12 show up without any problems.
  20. GarthMJ
    CM12 will not provide any results for power management reports for VMs only physical PCs will show up in those reports.
  21. GarthMJ
    If all they are going to do is read form the CM db, then what does it matter? Yes there might be performance issue but those can the fixed/addressed.
  22. GarthMJ
    To my knowledge there is no publicly available "official" statement, if they are looking for an official statement from MS then you should ask their TAM. Their TAM will be able to get them an official statement. The real question is "what do they want to do? and more importantly why?"
  23. GarthMJ
    Take a look a my blog there should be several example. www.smsug.ca
  24. GarthMJ
    I would suggest starting with the report listed above and customize it. IMO I would make sure that they know how much work it is for you to do this and make sure that they understand the caveats.
  25. GarthMJ
    Yes, this can be done but there are caveats that you must be aware of or design for. aka What happen when office is update to SP1 or SP2? What happens when a PC have two version of java installed or listed within ARP? IMO, you will be updating the report monthly or more often than that. I would stay with the other report, it will be less work.
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