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Migrating Hardware Inventory Customizations When Upgrading to Configuration Manager 2007 from SMS 2003
In About MOF Files Used by Hardware Inventory , the behaviors of the Configuration.mof and SMS_def.mof Configuration Manager 2007 hardware inventory files are described. While that topic does say that...

Posted Friday, December 21, 2007 10:59 PM by jgilbert | 1 comment(s)

How to inventory the client cache using SMS/ConfigMgr hardware inventory
This is a fairly common MOF edit nowadays, and I thought I had this on my blog already. Anyway, I didn't so now I do This MOF edit will inventory the client cache details for your SMS or ConfigMgr...

Posted Thursday, August 16, 2007 7:34 PM by jgilbert | with no comments

How To Inventory Remote Assistance Requests and Connections with SMS 2003/Configuration Manager 2007 Hardware Inventory
I guess Sherry Kissinger ( SMS Expert's MOF Master extraordinaire) and I are playing tag with these Remote Assistance edits! Sherry did an excellent job documenting how to inventory specific remote...

Posted Wednesday, August 08, 2007 7:49 PM by jgilbert | 2 comment(s)

How to inventory SQL Server 2000 installations via SMS 2003/Configuration Manager 2007 hardware inventory
OK so here's the SQL Server 2000 inventory MOF edit. It's not as pretty as the SQL 2005 one, but it gets the job done. I honestly don't remember if the display name registry key for SQL Server...

Posted Monday, August 06, 2007 11:08 PM by jgilbert | with no comments

How to inventory SQL Server 2005 installations via SMS 2003/Configuration Manager 2007 hardware inventory
I've been meaning to blog this for quite some time, and today I finally found some time to do it...at least partially. I made some MOF edits for MMS 2007 to demonstrate how to query for installed SQL...

Posted Monday, August 06, 2007 7:57 PM by jgilbert | 1 comment(s)

How to query physical memory chips using SMS hardware inventory
The question about how to inventory physical RAM chips installed on SMS clients seems to come up a lot. I've created this blog post to create a centralized location for the answer to this question...

Posted Wednesday, May 30, 2007 6:07 PM by jgilbert | 6 comment(s)

Querying Windows event logs using SMS hardware inventory
The View Provider can be used to perform simple WQL queries during client hardware inventories. The below mof edit was created to demonstrate this for my inventory lab at MMS 2007, and I figured it would...

Posted Wednesday, May 09, 2007 6:59 PM by jgilbert | 2 comment(s)