Month: August 2014

Weird but true: Permissions required to use Resultant Client Settings in ConfigMgr 2012

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For those following me on Twitter, this blog post will be an extended version of a tweet I posted last week. This blog post will explain a bit more about the situation, as that was a  bit hard in a tweet of 140 characters. Also, this blog is a lot easier to find for future references. Introduction In this blog post I’ll explain what permissions are required to use the Resultant Client Settings feature that’s new since ConfigMgr 2012 R2. This feature can be used to view the calculated resultant client settings. This can be really useful when multiple client settings have been deployed to the same device, user, or user group, as the prioritization and combination of settings can be complex. Keep in mind …

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Who deleted that deployment?

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This blog post will be a short follow-up post on my previous blog post about Who created that deployment?. This post will answer the, in most cases, less important question about who deleted that deployment. Just like the information about the creation of a deployment, the information about the deletion of a deployment is also stored in the database. Use the same buildin report named All messages for a specific message ID to track the deleted deployment. Again, the only missing detail is that it’s not clear which Message ID belongs to which action. The following table provides an overview with exactly that information. It will show per object type which Message ID belongs to the deletion of a(n) deployment/ assignment. Object Status Message Message …

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Who created that deployment?

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This blog post will be a short post about a question I often get when there was an accidental deployment and nobody dares to admit that he (or she) was responsible. The nice thing, at least for the colleagues and the manager, is that all this information is stored in the database and that it’s actually pretty simple to check. There is a buildin report named All messages for a specific message ID that can be used to track the created deployment. The only missing detail is that it’s not clear which Message ID belongs to which action. The following table provides an overview with exactly that information. It will show per object type which Message ID belongs to the creation of a(n) deployment/ assignment. …

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Get the folder location of an object in ConfigMgr 2012 via PowerShell

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This blog post will be about a question that I recently got with a big enterprise customer. They use many folders throughout the console to store their different objects and are able to find these objects by using the search option in the console. One thing the console doesn’t show, with the search results, is the folder location of the specific object. That folder location would make life a lot easier when adding packages to a task sequence. Luckily, I already created once a small PowerShell function that does exactly that. It outputs the folder location of an object. This blog post will explain that PowerShell function and shows the required input per object type. >> The complete function is available via download here on …

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