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re: SCCM Right Click Tools

rejohnson — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 16:52:20 GMT

Funny that the install is so inconsistent. I've had some that worked w/o any duplicates, and others that had the dupes - same image on both PCs.

Anyway, I guess there's no more updating to these tools? They are not compatible with 64-bit clients as many of the executables are looking for the wrong location to act on - CCM is in SysWOW64, not system32, and ccmsetup is in Windows, not system32... Really need both x86 and x64 links in the tools.

re: SCCM Right Click Tools

rejohnson — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 19:08:23 GMT

I think the tools need to be updated for Windows 7 64-bit. Some of them appear to be looking in the wrong folder locations, such as ccmsetup.

Cheers!

Russell

re: SCCM Right Click Tools

tysonflint — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 21:31:43 GMT

Here's a BAT file that does the cleanup. Run it after installing "Right Click Tools" if you have multiple "Client Tools" menu options when right clicking a machine in the SCCM admin console.

Copy the below into notepad and save as cleanup-extra-menu-items.bat.

You may need to do a search and replace on the quotation marks, as sometimes web posts will convert these to "left quotes" and "right quotes", which are different than the standard quote. You'll need to do two search and replaces. Copy the "left quote" at the beginning of the line, search for it, and replace with a standard quote by typing in a quote from the keyboard. Copy the "right quote" at the end of the line and replace with a standard quote by typing it in.

Tyson Flint

Seattle, WA

Jan 26, 2011

@echo off

echo This script will cleanup the extra "Client Tools" menu options when right clicking a machine.

echo These options are part of the "Right Click Tools" install.

echo Please verify the path to the SCCM Admin console is correct in the script before proceeding.

pause

set SCCMExtensionPath=C:\Program Files\Microsoft Configuration Manager\AdminUI\XmlStorage\Extensions\Actions\7ba8bf44-2344-4035-bdb4-16630291dcf6

del "%SCCMExtensionPath%\*install.xml"

ren "%SCCMExtensionPath%\dClient WebReports.xml" "dClient WebReports.bak"

del "%SCCMExtensionPath%\*Client WebReports.xml"

ren "%SCCMExtensionPath%\dClient WebReports.bak" "dClient WebReports.xml"

ren "c:\windows\SccmTools\install.vbs" install.bak

del "c:\windows\SccmTools\*install.vbs"

ren "c:\windows\SccmTools\install.bak" install.vbs

echo Cleanup complete, please restart your SCCM Admin Console.

echo This window will now close.

pause

re: SCCM Right Click Tools

tysonflint — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 22:40:33 GMT

More cleanup for the duplicate menu items. After completing the steps above, I noticed I still had two entries for "Client Tools" when right clicking a computer. I looked into it and found that the install.xml is the file responsible for the duplicate entry, as it's contents are duplicated in the bigger file named AConfigMgrTools.xml.

I have come to the conclusion that I should delete all files named "Web Reports.XML" that start with a number (leaving the dClient WebReports.xml behind) and also delte all files named install.xml whether they start with a number or not.

The extra XML files made reference to extra unneeded files in C:\windows\SCCMTools. You can delete these, as they corresponded to the #install.xml files in the SCCM extensions folder listed in the prior post:

C:\windows\SCCMTools\cen1install.vbs

C:\windows\SCCMTools\cen2install.vbs

C:\windows\SCCMTools\cen1install.vbs

These are all duplicates of:

C:\windows\SCCMTools\install.vbs

There is a legitimate file file named C:\windows\SCCMTools\install.vbs that is used by AConfigMgrTools.xml, so it should be left behind.

Tyson Flint

Seattle, WA

Jan 25, 2011

re: SCCM Right Click Tools

tysonflint — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 05:18:51 GMT

I've installed this on a few client machines now and am noticing multiple entries for "Client Tools" when right clicking a machine name in SCCM 2007 SP2. I've seen another user with this issue: blog.danovich.com.au/.../sccm-right-click-tools-adds-multiple-client-tools-entries

In my case I have two folders that appear to be related to this tool under C:\program files\Microsoft Configuration Manager\AdminUI\XmlStorage\Extensions\Actions

One folder is named 716f8f86-5c3e-448d-baa2-8d2763fa8e7a and has 8 files in it.

Another folder under the Action folder is named 7ba8bf44-2344-4035-bdb4-16630291dcf6 and has 25 files in it.

I came across this info:

7ba8bf44-2344-4035-bdb4-16630291dcf6 is the "Computer Object" GUID for storing menu extensions relating to right clicking on a computer name.

716f8f86-5c3e-448d-baa2-8d2763fa8e7a is for computers in a "Query".

dbb315c3-1d8b-4e6a-a7b1-db8246890f59 is for "Top Level" collections.

fa922e1a-6add-477f-b70e-9a164f3b11a2 is for "Sub collections".

So the "Computer Object" related folder has too many files in it.

Heres the listing:

12/01/2007 02:50 AM 66 1AbSeparator2.xml

12/01/2007 02:50 AM 66 Separator3.xml

02/14/2009 03:04 AM 1,361 1Client WebReports.xml

02/14/2009 03:04 AM 1,361 2Client WebReports.xml

02/14/2009 03:04 AM 1,361 3Client WebReports.xml

02/14/2009 03:04 AM 1,361 4Client WebReports.xml

02/14/2009 03:04 AM 1,361 5Client WebReports.xml

02/14/2009 03:04 AM 1,361 6Client WebReports.xml

02/14/2009 03:04 AM 1,361 7Client WebReports.xml

02/14/2009 03:04 AM 1,361 8Client WebReports.xml

02/18/2009 06:04 AM 9,090 Client Log Files.xml

02/18/2009 06:09 AM 5,310 Client Security Update Log Files.xml

02/19/2009 03:57 PM 3,883 Client Actions.xml

02/19/2009 04:36 PM 1,519 dClient WebReports.xml

03/20/2009 11:18 AM 561 1install.xml

03/20/2009 11:18 AM 561 2install.xml

03/20/2009 11:19 AM 561 3install.xml

03/20/2009 11:19 AM 561 4install.xml

03/20/2009 11:19 AM 561 5install.xml

03/20/2009 11:19 AM 561 6install.xml

03/20/2009 11:20 AM 561 7install.xml

03/20/2009 11:20 AM 561 8install.xml

03/24/2009 12:55 PM 1,434 eshutdown.xml

03/24/2009 02:20 PM 5,927 AConfigMgrTools.xml

01/21/2011 01:16 PM 658 SMSCliCtr.xml

I deleted these files:

2Client WebReports.xml

3Client WebReports.xml

4Client WebReports.xml

5Client WebReports.xml

6Client WebReports.xml

7Client WebReports.xml

8Client WebReports.xml

And deleted these:

2install.xml

3install.xml

4install.xml

5install.xml

6install.xml

7install.xml

8install.xml

I then noticed that I had two similar looking files:

1Client WebReports.xml

dClient WebReports.xml

I compared these with CompareIt and noticed that only the first line was different (other than a few extra lines of space).

On my test SCCM server, I didn't have the right click tools installed, so only had:

dClient WebReports.xml

I assummed this must have been bug, so then deleted:

1Client WebReports.xml

I renamed 1Install.xml to Install.xml, as SCCM appears to read all XML files in these folders regardless of filename.

I closed and re-opened the console and now when I right click on a computer I get the behavior I was expecting, which is only one menu entry for "Client Tools" (taken from Install.XML).

Here are the final contents of my folder:

c:\program files\Microsoft Configuration Manager\AdminUI\XmlStorage\Extensions\Actions\7ba8bf44-2344-4035-bdb4-16630291dcf6

12/01/2007 02:50 AM 66 1AbSeparator2.xml

12/01/2007 02:50 AM 66 Separator3.xml

02/18/2009 06:04 AM 9,090 Client Log Files.xml

02/18/2009 06:09 AM 5,310 Client Security Update Log Files.xml

02/19/2009 03:57 PM 3,883 Client Actions.xml

02/19/2009 04:36 PM 1,519 dClient WebReports.xml

03/20/2009 11:18 AM 561 install.xml

03/24/2009 12:55 PM 1,434 eshutdown.xml

03/24/2009 02:20 PM 5,927 AConfigMgrTools.xml

01/21/2011 01:16 PM 658 SMSCliCtr.xml

Tyson Flint

Seattle, WA

Jan 24, 2011

re: SCCM Right Click Tools

tysonflint — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 00:34:48 GMT

Starting this weekend, Symantec Endpoint Protection detected some of these files as viruses. I'm thinking that it must be something in the latest antivirus definitions. We had to create an exclusion in the Symantec Admin console for these folders and them reinstall the right click tools:

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Configuration Manager Console\AdminUI\XmlStorage\Tools\

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Configuration Manager Console\AdminUI\XmlStorage\Tools\

Someone should probably contact Symantec on this, so the hash for these EXEs can be whitelisted:

Security Risk Found!Trojan.Gen in File: C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Configuration Manager Console\AdminUI\XmlStorage\Tools\whatcoll.exe by: Auto-Protect scan. Action: Quarantine failed : Delete failed : Access denied. Action Description: The file was left unchanged.

Security Risk Found!Trojan.Gen in File: C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Configuration Manager Console\AdminUI\XmlStorage\Tools\sms_ping.exe by: Auto-Protect scan. Action: Delete succeeded. Action Description: The file was deleted successfully.

Security Risk Found!Trojan.Gen in File: C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Configuration Manager Console\AdminUI\XmlStorage\Tools\connectc.exe by: Auto-Protect scan. Action: Quarantine failed : Delete failed : Access denied. Action Description: The file was left unchanged.

Security Risk Found!Trojan.Gen in File: C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Configuration Manager Console\AdminUI\XmlStorage\Tools\coll-changecache.exe by: Auto-Protect scan. Action: Delete succeeded. Action Description: The file was deleted successfully.

Security Risk Found!Trojan.Gen in File: C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Configuration Manager Console\AdminUI\XmlStorage\Tools\sms_ping.exe by: Auto-Protect scan. Action: Quarantine failed : Delete failed : Access denied. Action Description: The file was left unchanged.

Security Risk Found!Trojan.Gen in File: C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Configuration Manager Console\AdminUI\XmlStorage\Tools\logs.exe by: Auto-Protect scan. Action: Delete succeeded. Action Description: The file was deleted successfully.