As a ConfigMgr administrator understand WMI is important part of the job. ConfigMgr Hardware inventory using WMI to collect data. On top of that, ConfigMgr itself use WMI to interface with its backend and SQL server using WMI too. Using Wbemtest or WMIC or PowerShell...
This comes of fairly often within Reddit or other forums, Changing ConfigMgr Report Account Password, How do I do it? What people do is change the account password within Active Directory (AD). Then they change the dataset password and everything works great for 10...
While working on my article What is Parsename and 4 Part Version String?, I was looking at my IP address of many of my system and notice that they have both IP v4 and IP v6 address. This is NOT generally a problem as I almost never include IP address in a report, but...
In my article from last week, What Is A 4-Part Version Numbers? I showed you how Add Remove Program (ARP) versions are actually a string and not a number, like most people think it is. But how can you query the 3rd octet of a version string, if the math function don’t...
The problem of querying 4-part version numbers has long been a problem. I have seen many solutions, but none are 100% fool proof, until now. But what is a 4-part version numbers? This article will go into details to explain 4-part version numbers and how SQL Server...
