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Thursday, January 06, 2011 9:14 PM

Downgrading Unresponsive Clients via PSexec

Any “client health” team actually does many things other things as well, including client reach, client installation, client movement, and (occasionally...
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Tuesday, January 04, 2011 9:26 PM

Checking Client Health for a Large List of Computer Names

One of my pet peeves is reports (of any sort) that are long lists of computers. But the reality is that many people use such reports. I’ve found that people...
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Monday, December 06, 2010 9:50 PM

Retrieving events from remote computers when WMI or RPC are not working

When you’re investigating computer management client health issues you may benefit from knowing the history of the computer. When was it last rebooted...
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Monday, November 22, 2010 9:33 PM

Checking which OU a computer is in (or the expected domain)

If you have a complex computer environment (typical of large companies, but true elsewhere I’m sure), then you probably have multiple Active Directory...
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Wednesday, November 17, 2010 8:30 PM

What does the ConfigMgr 2012 client health evaluation “result” code mean?

I hope that those of you evaluating/beta testing ConfigMgr 2012 (previously known as v.Next) are checking out the wonderful client health additions. I...
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Tuesday, May 12, 2009 1:19 PM

MMS Presentation Webcasts

Summary: some details about my MMS presentations as webinars, and related notes. One of the pleasures of working here at Microsoft is that I not only get...
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Monday, March 30, 2009 8:07 PM

Client Health Advances

Summary: this blog has frequently focused on computer management client health so I hope that my admittedly infrequent blog postings over the last year...
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Tuesday, April 15, 2008 5:03 PM

ConfigMgr R2's Client Status Reporting

Summary: the SMS Client Health Tool (CHT) is being updated in the upcoming ConfigMgr 2007 R2 release, and renamed as Client Status Reporting (CSR). There...
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Sunday, March 23, 2008 8:56 AM

Client health solutions

Summary: we talk about client health a lot on this blog, but ultimately we all want solutions. What solutions are available? In a past posting I listed...
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Tuesday, February 19, 2008 5:29 PM

Software distribution success issues lead to client health thoughts

Summary: my recent posting on "defining client health" was inspired by various conversations I've seen or had recently along the lines of...
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Sunday, February 17, 2008 1:01 PM

Defining "client health"

Summary: "client health" is the art of accounting for all your computers. Further, it includes maximizing the success of your computer management...
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Tuesday, February 12, 2008 6:42 PM

The full field of client health management

Summary: understanding the problems client health management reveals is crucial, but there are other disciplines that are also essential to fully managing...
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Saturday, February 02, 2008 8:41 PM

MMS 2008 - here I come!!

Actually, I was going no matter what, but I get to be a speaker, which is a huge honour. Rod reports that the first (main) round of session details have...
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Thursday, January 31, 2008 8:47 PM

A look at some computer management reports produced by scripts

Summary: in recent posts we've examined some techniques for automatically generating and delivering highly customized reports. Here's some examples...
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Sunday, January 20, 2008 10:58 PM

A question: what does computer health mean to you?

Summary: do you agree that computer health will help with client health; and what is "computer health" (AKA "desktop health" or "PC...
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