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Reporting on Workstations in AD Group
So I last posted about creating a collection based on a user's membership in an AD Group , and tying that to a workstation based on the TopConsoleUser field. Of course as soon as I let it loose that...

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At long last...
Having a collection based on Active Directory User Group membership has been a holy grail since we installed SMS. It seemed to make sense to everyone that since we have the user ID of the last logged in...

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SMS Client Auto-Repair
The next logical question in my client saga is; Just when does that client try to initiate a repair? Turns out,as you might guess, that there are a host of reasons: 1. CCMEXEC tries to connect to the root...

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Pushing the client
So when we made the big switch from Zenworks to SMS, we were in what I thought was a uniquely ironic position. We planned to use Zen to roll out the SMS client, then use SMS to remove Zen. There was something...

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WOL
SMS 2003 and Wake on Lan One of the things we've missed after moving from Zen to SMS 2003 is Wake on Lan. For those of you not in the tech world, this gives us the ability to remotely turn on a computer...

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