Author: ryanm

Scripted checking of SCCM Backups

This is a script that parses the smsbkup.log and outputs results (in html) and the relevant portions of the file to the specified folder. The idea being that the with a small bit of tweaking you could have the report hosted on  a webserver to check or emailed (there will be a post on emailing in Powershell …
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CentOS 6 authorized_keys bug

Thanks to the footnote here: http://blog.firedaemon.com/2011/07/27/passwordless-root-ssh-public-key-authentication-on-centos-6/ On centos systems that are refusing keybased authentication run the following command as root #> restorecon -R -v /root/.ssh

Deploy Centos 6 from VMWare Template

This is just a quick gotcha that I found ages ago then forgot about and then had to figure out again. Before you convert the VM to a template. rm /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules sed -i ‘/HWADDR*/d’ /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 sed -i ‘/UUID*/d’ /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0   Update: This also applies to SLES 11 SP2 (use /etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-eth0)    

Comments now require moderation

Sorry to all who do post here, but due to a large influx of spam comments over the last couple of weeks I have now enabled comment moderation, so comments will only appear after I approve them. Sadly this is the only way I can ensure those of you who follow the RSS feed dont …
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FilterTreeView

This is a custom windows form control that inherits from the TreeView Control, this control however allows you to filter the nodes dynamically.

Programs without MSI Product ID

Recently I had an issue where ActiveSetup wasn’t installing some applications when deployed. It turned out that it was due to some of the packaged applications not having a program with the Windows installer information populated. As it was believed that this may not an isolated issues I was tasked with producing a report of all …
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SCCM Patch Compliance Reports

Updated: 2013-11-20 – Fixes for rdl files and 2012 report, I’ve edited the RDLs but I have no infrastructure currently to test on so feedback is welcome. I was watching SCCM Guru Episode 9 with Garth Jones, when I saw in his powerpoint presentation two reports for patch compliance that I liked the look of. …
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Task Sequence and Package Management Reports

There are 3 reports in this group; The first returns a list of all packages in a Task Sequence and the DPs they are targeted at that are in a “not installed” state. Currently this only detects targeted and not installed, once I figure out the SQL i’ll update this so it includes DPs that …
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Software Distribution Reports

I have 85 or so DPs across more than 5 Primary sites and sometimes I see failures in newly created Task Sequences (or even old ones) during an OS deployment due to a package not being available. Distribution status of a specific package on a specific distribution point – This report shows the installation status of …
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