Eswar Koneti

N/A means that approval is not applicable for the computer. A Configuration Manager 2007 client cannot be approved until it has successfully installed and assigned to a site. For SMS 2003 clients - they are not subject to approval, so always N/A If systems are discovered that are not SCCM clients - we can't approve non-clients If Clients are in native mode - no approval. More information about Client Approval from Technet http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb694193.aspx If you have lot of computers which are not approved though option set in Primary site settings (automatic approve clients in trusted domain recomended) You can use the script posted by Brown to appove all the computers in single shot . http://www.myitforum.com/articles/15/view.asp?id=12796 You will have to create collection for unapproved computers and provide the collection ID to the script.

look at client access license http://blogcastrepository.com/blogs/brian_tucker/archive/2008/02/13/how-to-enable-asset-intelligence-client-access-licensing-in-sccm-2007.aspx

you may have to edit the settings given in <condition>MigXmlHelper.DoesObjectExist("Registry","%HklmWowSoftware%\Mozilla\Mozilla Firefox 3.*\bin [PathToExe]")</condition> to somethinglike <condition>MigXmlHelper.DoesObjectExist("Registry","%HklmWowSoftware%\Mozilla\Mozilla.*\bin [PathToExe]")</condition> check the entries for migapp.firefox3

Yes it is possible.you can do OR operation with 32 bit and 64 bit something like below: change the bold letters (untested it) select * from SMS_R_System inner join SMS_G_System_ADD_REMOVE_PROGRAMS on SMS_G_System_ADD_REMOVE_PROGRAMS.ResourceId = SMS_R_System.ResourceId where SMS_G_System_ADD_REMOVE_PROGRAMS.DisplayName like "%Adobe Acrobat%" OR select SMS_R_System.ResourceID from SMS_R_System inner join SMS_G_System_ADD_REMOVE_PROGRAMS_64 on SMS_G_System_ADD_REMOVE_PROGRAMS_64.ResourceID = SMS_R_System.ResourceId where SMS_G_System_ADD_REMOVE_PROGRAMS_64. DisplayName like "%Adobat%"

what does adminUI log says ? does it have any entires ? user has right permissions to connect to siteserver ?

These is something wrong with your site to process the inventory from clients.Can you check mp_hinv.log to see if something interesting I would suggest you to look hardware inventory troubleshooting http://blogs.technet.com/b/sudheesn/archive/2010/05/31/troubleshooting-sccm-part-ii-hardware-inventory.aspx do you see any error messges under site system status ?

mixing of site boundaries(duplicating site boundaries) may cause several issues to the clients and client may fail with site assignment process and receving policies as well. I would prefer to go with IP address range as boundaries that gives good amount of tracking clients and aviod issues.

sometimes != query may not give perfect results rather going this way ,i would do other way. 1.Create collection that list machines who are member of AD sec group 2.create another collection named uninstall that pulls all the computers with application installed but resource ID not in Above collection.This should give you 100% correct result. Collection Query : select SMS_R_System.ResourceId, SMS_R_System.ResourceType, SMS_R_System.Name, SMS_R_System.SMSUniqueIdentifier, SMS_R_System.ResourceDomainORWorkgroup, SMS_R_System.Client from SMS_R_System inner join SMS_G_System_ADD_REMOVE_PROGRAMS on SMS_G_System_ADD_REMOVE_PROGRAMS.ResourceID = SMS_R_System.ResourceId inner join SMS_G_System_ADD_REMOVE_PROGRAMS_64 on SMS_G_System_ADD_REMOVE_PROGRAMS_64.ResourceId = SMS_R_System.ResourceId where (SMS_G_System_ADD_REMOVE_PROGRAMS.ProdID = "{AC76BA86-7AD7-1053-7B44-A90000000001}" or SMS_G_System_ADD_REMOVE_PROGRAMS_64.ProdID = "{AC76BA86-7AD7-1053-7B44-A90000000001}") and SMS_R_System.ResourceId not in (select ResourceID from SMS_CM_RES_COLL_CollID) change the collID and product ID here.

what information are you looking for about client status history ? you can add if the machine is winXP and Win 7 .

Good one.

you can ristrict any user to login to only specific computers or one computer using user Properties account from dsa.msc but AFAIK for this requirement,you may have to build new solution that checks for each user if he logged into machine if so,dont allow or somethiong like that but not readyli avilable solution.

you can download SCCM 2012 RC2 only from http://eskonr.com/2012/01/configmgr-2012-rc2-released/ to aviod other components in downloding and save time and bandwidth

all the very best mate.

is the group which you are looking is under the specified container (from AD sys group discovery) ,make sure group is part of spefied OU and monitor ADsysgrp.log from ur sccm log files.

if that is the case,create a folder and copy the installation files into it and provide read access to everyone else go with startup script http://blogs.catapultsystems.com/jsandys/archive/2010/12/30/updated-configmgr-startup-script.aspx or client push installation method.

can you check if WDS service is runniing or not it not,you may have to fix that first.Also check if WDS service is configured with just remote installation folder.

did you tried this ? http://www.windows-noob.com/forums/index.php?/topic/3840-using-sccm-2012-beta-2-in-a-lab-part-3-additional-configuration/ about configuring Discovering discovery methods ?

make the DP's as protected and assign the boundaries to specific DP who can get the right application.

You need to have PSP role on every WDS server if you want the client to run PXE .can you also check SMSPXE.log for more info ?

manually ? go to machine and install ccmsetup.exe file ? else use some scripts to push it to remote computers. There are other client installations methods ,why dont you use them ? are there any risctrictions ? SCCM client installation methods http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb694166.aspx

why dont you use builtin reports. I found that,software updates that are installed on server(2008) will not be listed in add and remove programs .so you will not have the info in sccm database to pull.If you are looking for patches on server 2003,please try this http://eskonr.com/2010/01/sccm-report-for-applications-installled-on-computers-with-without/ .try to modify what you need from the report. Try using DCM feature listed here on http://blog.coretech.dk/kea/specific-updates-installed/

there should be other information about the error,as pointed by trevor,you can ignore supported embedded platform .can you also check client.msi.log if something went wrong ?

what does the client logs say ?

can you check if WDS service is running ? please check SMSPXE.log from sccms server . r u using IP Helpers /routers?