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Garth’s Top 5 Features of Right Click Tools
You should have heard the great news by now that Enhansoft has joined with Recast Software! I have long been a fan of Recast Software’s Right Click Tools and prior to joining Recast Software, I used the free Community Edition within all of my labs. Now, I have the...
Garth’s Top 5 Features of Right Click Tools
You should have heard the great news by now that Enhansoft has joined with Recast Software! I have long been a fan of Recast Software’s Right Click Tools and prior to joining Recast Software, I used the free Community Edition within all of my labs. Now, I have the...
How to Create a Color Palette for Your ConfigMgr Reports
I often get asked how someone without a visual arts background can choose or create a color palette. For Microsoft Configuration Manager (ConfigMgr / SCCM) reports. ConfigMgr Reporting Points use either Power BI Report Server (PBRS / PBIRS) or SQL Server Reporting...
How to Create a Color Palette for Your ConfigMgr Reports
I often get asked how someone without a visual arts background can choose or create a color palette. For Microsoft Configuration Manager (ConfigMgr / SCCM) reports. ConfigMgr Reporting Points use either Power BI Report Server (PBRS / PBIRS) or SQL Server Reporting...
How to Create Computer based on Users’ Department Collection
This is a fairly common request but goes against the idea of Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager (MECM / SCCM / MEMCM/ConfigMgr). You should either target a user or a computer. But not the computers of a Users. I know the first thing you will say is but software...
How to Create Computer based on Users’ Department Collection
This is a fairly common request but goes against the idea of Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager (MECM / SCCM / MEMCM/ConfigMgr). You should either target a user or a computer. But not the computers of a Users. I know the first thing you will say is but software...
Which Security Accounts Are Used within ConfigMgr SSRS Report Execution?
In a recent tweet, S. D’Souza @sdsouza78 said, "It always confuses me which account/security context gets used where when running reports from within SCCM/SSRS environment." I found his admission interesting and my first reaction was to say that SSRS always uses your...
How Does the ConfigMgr SSRS Report Execution Workflow Operate?
Recently S. D’Souza @sdsouza78 sent me a tweet asking: “Is there an SCCM/SSRS article which explains the report execution flow starting at SCCM console ending with SQL Report displayed?” I’ll try to answer this question by saying right off the bat that you should...
Holy Cow, 4.5 Million Extra Rows…! Wow.
The title of this post, "Holy cow, 4.5 million extra rows...! Wow," is a quote from Alexander Phu when we were discussing the differences between Power BI and SSRS for ConfigMgr reporting. In my last blog post, I talked about how the SQL Server Team believes that...