How to check the Command line parameters in AD for ConfigMgr

Have you ever wondered how to check whether or not your command line entries actually made it to AD. If so here is how to check what is actually populated to AD.

Install the Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2 32-bit Support Tools

Once installed do this:

start>>run>>mmc>>add "adsi edit"

connect to "domain"(your domain)

go to system container

go to system management container

go to your site MP object(SMS-MP-SITECODE-SERVERNAME)

find attribute mSSMSCapabilities and press edit

you'll see all the options you set inside the client install(in sccm console) there.

This is suppose to be able to be read only for all.

Here is what it lists for the key

<ClientOperationalSettings>

<Version>4.00.6221.0000</Version>

<SecurityConfiguration>

              <CertificateStoreName></CertificateStoreName>

          <CertificateSelectionCriteria></CertificateSelectionCriteria>

          <CertificateSelectFirstFlag>0</CertificateSelectFirstFlag>

          <SiteSigningCert></SiteSigningCert>

          <SecurityModeMask>0</SecurityModeMask>

          <HTTPPort>80</HTTPPort>

          <HTTPSPort>443</HTTPSPort>

          </SecurityConfiguration>

<CCM>

<CommandLine>SMSSITECODE=ABC FSP=SCCMSERVER</CommandLine>

          </CCM>

<FSP>

          <FSPServer>SCCMSERVER.domain.domain</FSPServer>

          </FSP>

<Capabilities SchemaVersion ="1.0">

</Capabilities>

</ClientOperationalSettings>

Thanks to Amir Goldman for this bit of info.

Very handy :-)

Chris Stauffer <><