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Thanks!

Thanks Peter but I already tried that. Says Select * from SEDO_LockState is invalid or something.

My console crashes on a regular basis and then I am not able to open an object that I was modifying. Does anyone know how I can kill the object in question so I can edit it? Even after a reboot it is still in use and I need to get this package out asap. Thanks!

Nevermind it was in the office admx files and not outlook.

Hello, I have been trying to complete my Office 2010 Home and Business install for the app catalog and there is one setting that eludes me. There is supposed to be a Suppress recommended settings dialog but I can't find it in the GPO or OCT. Technet says it is located in User Configuration\Administrative Templates\(ADM\ADMX)\Microsoft Office 2010\Miscellaneous but it does not exist and I have downloaded the admx files. Can someone please tell me how to disable the welcome screen for office? THanks!

You could create a PXE VLAN separate from your network just for the ports that are used to re-image. Then assign your O/S task sequences to the All Unknown computers collection. VLAN so your guys don't accidentally image the whole company and unknown collection will detect any new devices so you won't have to deal with mac addresses. I use USB to PXE boot so I don't know if it would work in your environment. Maybe someone can shed some light on automating PXE from network. I thought they did away with manually adding new comps in 2012 but I can't verify.

Why are you manually adding computers? You are using a query to pull comps from the OU right? This should all be automatic and would only require your admins to click on update membership.

Thought I would check asset intelligence and sure enough there is a report for this. Asset Intelligence\Hardware 01A - Summary of computers in a specific collection. This will give you the top console user for each comp.

You are going to have to create a Query for this. Probably take just as long to create it as it would entering each name in the report. Unless you can find it using google. Good luck!

In reporting you want Users\Computers for a specific user name report

Nice! Thank you

I googled editing the C:\Windows\system32\shell32.dll file and it seems like a pain in the ass to modify the default icons. Does anyone know if there is an easier way to use actual icons like flash, java, etc for the app catalog?

Create an ADR that is tied to a certain collection and move the newly deployed comp to that collection. Any device in that collection will be automatically updated. You can even create a pre-imaged OU in AD and then use a query rule on a collection to point to that OU. After your comp has been imaged and shows up in the pre-imaged OU it will be updated. When it is complete just move it out of the pre-imaged OU to whatever group it belongs to.

Maybe put in a restart after office has installed?

If they are Dell computers you could use SCUP. They have a free catalog and you can import the drivers into software updates.

When I ran into this issue I had to manually update my collections. Just fyi if you manually install the forefront client it will not report back to your sccm server.

YEAH! Thank you Garth! I was using Count of instances of specific software registered with ARP instead of Count of all instances of software registered with ARP. I now see the Pro Plus and Home and Business.

There are already pre-built reports for software inventory and I am pretty sure we are be able to track software inventory using Asset Intelligence. I hope there is a pre-built report so I don't have to create it.

Working on 14A - Microsoft Volume Licensing reconciliation report to renew our license agreements and get compliant. However I can't find a report that shows me how many versions of Office 2010 Home and Business VS 2010 Pro Plus. It just says Office 2010 in the reports which is completely useless to me. I am hoping the report exists but this is really frustrating. Going through tons of reports that have to show every update and security patch. Even one update says I have over 2000 in my environment and we don't even have half that amount of computers. Starting to think SCCM reporting is shit. Can anyone shed some light on this?

Guess I will have to use required and set a deadline for a few years so they don't install automatically. I don't see any other way around it and if there is an update we don't want it can be removed from the update template. What a pain for such a simple task.

I think the problem is that it is set to available and install all required is only for required updates? Might just have to go with maint windows but this is retarded. There should be a button to install all Available software. If I do required they always install automatically which we don't want. We want to manually install updates and do a slow rollout. I really don't want to manage a bunch of different maint windows just because I can't install all updates at once on one server manually.

I have a really irritating issue with deploying updates to servers. I have set it to download but manually update so all patches are available and not required. Some of my servers have not been updated in a long time so they require lots of updates. When I want to install updates I click INSTALL ALL REQUIRED SOFTWARE then I get a pop up that says All software changes have already been made on this computer. There are no current changes required by your IT department. The udpates are sitting there in the software center but its like this button is broken. I have to click on each update and then INSTALL one at a time! This is completely unacceptable and a waste of my time to go through 50 servers and click a million times to install one damn update. If anyone knows what the problem is that would be great! Otherwise SCCM is useless when it comes to applying updates manually.

Got it! It appears ADR's will not let you select available. Looks like I have to create a Software Update Group instead. Thanks anyweb for pointing me in the right direction.

Under deployment settings it is set to required and its greyed out so I can't change it to available.

Use ADR's to update your comps once a month and set it to run as soon as possible. Run it at night and on the user experience tab select both boxes under deadline behavior and don't suppress the restart. When everyone comes in the next day all the comps have been updated and rebooted. Cept for laptop users they usually have to deal with the restart notification unless they leave it at work that night. Just notify them with an email so they save everything that day and log out after work. After a few months they know what to expect.