GarthMJ

FYI only, This query will show every PC within your environment. Also this query will only show the 32bit versions. You need to use a subselect query for this.

Since proxy setting are user base, this is not a simple task. Depending if you user are also admin on their PC there will be many steps but the high level steps are: • Create two packages o Admin package o User package • Edit your SMS_Def.mof Admin Package • Create a Reg key under HKLM • Grant permission to everyone to modify this key User Package • Read proxy settings • Delete existing inventory proxy settings (HKLM) • Write our proxy settings to HKLM You will need to run the user package IMO at least weekly.

Business hours are effectively MW. Dependency act like mandatory deployment to the WS and it will wait for the MW before continuing.

That is not normal. I'm working on a new site tonight. Here is what a normal Colleval.log should look like. I have looked a 3 CM12 sites that I currently have access to none of them have the SQL errors listed it the log. Wait timed out after 5 minutes while waiting for at least one trigger event. SMS_COLLECTION_EVALUATOR 2/6/2013 10:32:47 PM 2192 (0x0890) PF: ***** Evaluation cycle starts ***** SMS_COLLECTION_EVALUATOR 2/6/2013 10:32:52 PM 2192 (0x0890) PF: Triggered by WAIT_TIMEOUT SMS_COLLECTION_EVALUATOR 2/6/2013 10:32:52 PM 2192 (0x0890) PF: Incremental cycle triggered SMS_COLLECTION_EVALUATOR 2/6/2013 10:32:52 PM 2192 (0x0890) PF: Processing of file extensions starts SMS_COLLECTION_EVALUATOR 2/6/2013 10:32:53 PM 2192 (0x0890) PF: 0 file extensions to process SMS_COLLECTION_EVALUATOR 2/6/2013 10:32:53 PM 2192 (0x0890) PF: 0 collections CRC modified SMS_COLLECTION_EVALUATOR 2/6/2013 10:32:53 PM 2192 (0x0890) PF: 0 collections deleted SMS_COLLECTION_EVALUATOR 2/6/2013 10:32:53 PM 2192 (0x0890) PF: Processing of file extensions ends SMS_COLLECTION_EVALUATOR 2/6/2013 10:32:53 PM 2192 (0x0890) PF: Collection process starts SMS_COLLECTION_EVALUATOR 2/6/2013 10:32:53 PM 2192 (0x0890) PF: Looking for candidates for incremental evaluation SMS_COLLECTION_EVALUATOR 2/6/2013 10:32:53 PM 2192 (0x0890) Querying for incremental changes SMS_COLLECTION_EVALUATOR 2/6/2013 10:32:53 PM 2192 (0x0890) PF: Found 0 candidate collection for incremental evaluation SMS_COLLECTION_EVALUATOR 2/6/2013 10:32:53 PM 2192 (0x0890) Checking for collections needing their extended user membership updated. SMS_COLLECTION_EVALUATOR 2/6/2013 10:32:53 PM 2192 (0x0890) 0 collections need their extended user membership updated. SMS_COLLECTION_EVALUATOR 2/6/2013 10:32:53 PM 2192 (0x0890) PF: Collection process exits since no change to process SMS_COLLECTION_EVALUATOR 2/6/2013 10:32:53 PM 2192 (0x0890) PF: ***** Evaluation cycle ends ***** SMS_COLLECTION_EVALUATOR 2/6/2013 10:32:53 PM 2192 (0x0890) Waiting for changes for 5 minutes SMS_COLLECTION_EVALUATOR 2/6/2013 10:32:53 PM 2192 (0x0890)

So it clear from the logs that you are having a SQL issue.

Yes a PC will apply all MW from all collections that it belong too. What do most people do, it depends. What do they want to do. No, CM12 will NOT send a awake package at the deadline.

Sure you could easily create a new SQL instance on the same sever ( but again I never recommend having SQL remote from CM either , it cause too many headaches.)

I have never see (or heard) that recommendation before, Where did you see that? Personally, I would never recommend have different SQL collation between WSUS and CM db. It would most likely work but it would seem to me that it would cause unnecessary translation from one collation to the other.

Was this just for testing? You don't need two different SQL instances for WSUS and CM. They can exist on the same instance.

That does look good but I was talking about the inventoryagent.log. BTW it doesn't look like you client is installed correctly.

What does the inventory agent log say? Are you sure that the client is healthy?

No, it must be the exact SQL collation listed within the setup.

CM12 does NOT process Custom MIF files without you importing them first. Have you imported the MIF files yet? BTW, I NEVER recommend using MIF files anymore, there are far more efficient ways to capture the data. Since you are moving to CM12, I would recommend that you look at converting all your MIF files to sms_def.mof edits or DCMs.

If you reuse the same site code don’t forget that you will need to re-install all your clients. And you will need to reset the CM certificate too.

They don’t know what they are asking for, the report that they are asking for will be over 400 pages! You really need to read this blog post. I would even suggest email the requestor a link to the blog post too. http://support.enhansoft.com/Blogs/post/How-to-Perform-a-Basic-Software-Audit.aspx

Nope, nothing has been released yet for CM12.

Everything that is publicly available is listed within the CM12 and CM07 SDK. And there is some info in the SDK about CM client WMI classes.

There are two different permission at play here: One set as you One set for your Datasource (DS) So what account are you using for your DS. Keep in mind that this still could be a double hop security issue The is a simple reason why there is almost not screenshot and the answer is because of the different languages around the world. They would have to create 1 screenshot for every language. If anything would ever change in the UI they would have to updated 1000s of screenshots and it would take months to update a few pages. This is not the case with text, they can update a page and have it translated within a few weeks.

Not all patches are listed within the ARP table. There is no simple way to see that all patches have been applied to a WS because they are not listed within the ARP view.

BTW I know it says HW but it should also apply to SW inv. too.

This will only work if the files are over 5 MB and under 50MB. http://www.madanmohan.com/2010/11/hardware-inventory-not-being-processed.html

The source is from here. http://blog.itminutes.net/?p=781

Have you read the log file to see if the SW inv is timing out? If it does then you will never get any data from them. If it does complete how big is the MIF file? If it is over 50 MB then you will never get any data returned. If it is under 50 MB then you need to edit the registry to have MIF collected that are bigger than 5 MB.

Yup and this is one of the reasons why I recommend turning off SW Inv., It takes 4 hours to timeout. During this time the HD is constantly busy and it slows down the systems. If you are doing SW inv more than once a week, it is too often. Once every two week or once a month should be more than enough.

It means that it is in the middle of doing one of the other task. My guess would be Software Inventory.