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Customizing SMS 2003 Resource Explorer Icons
I've done quite a bit of hardware inventory modifications in my time and while it's great to see the new information displayed in Resource Explorer...

Posted Saturday, March 14, 2009 2:03 AM by jgilbert | with no comments

Finding Installed Editions of SQL Server Using SMS 2003 Hardware Inventory
If you're running SMS 2003 SP2 (or earlier versions of SMS 2003) then inventorying SQL Server installations can be a little difficult. The information...

Posted Sunday, January 27, 2008 9:38 PM by jgilbert | 2 comment(s)

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...

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

About the #Pragma Autorecover command
In my last post I talked about how to delete unwanted WMI classes using SMS 2003/Configuration Manager hardware inventory. In this post, I'll flip...

Posted Saturday, August 25, 2007 6:23 PM by jgilbert | with no comments

About the #Pragma Deleteclass command
The #pragma deleteclass command is used in SMS/Configuration Manager hardware inventory modification to delete class information from WMI repositories...

Posted Saturday, August 25, 2007 5:38 PM by jgilbert | 2 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...

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...

Posted Wednesday, August 08, 2007 7:49 PM by jgilbert | 7 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...

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...

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...

Posted Wednesday, May 30, 2007 6:07 PM by jgilbert | 8 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...

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