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Saturday, September 27, 2008 11:54 AM

win32_servercomponent - what is it?

I'd like to know, too! Actually Rob Olson (the Dude from www.dudeworks.com ) believes it was an earlier beta WMI class for Windows Server 2008. When it went RTM it was likely renamed win32_serverfeature...
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Saturday, September 27, 2008 11:38 AM

Dell OMCI SMBiosSettings - Hardware Inventory Extension

By request, the WakeOnLan settings out of the WMI Namespace created by Dell's Open Manage Client Instrumentation; the Dell_SMBIOSSettings, specifically the WakeOnLan attributes. Below is the mof edit;...
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Thursday, September 18, 2008 7:31 AM

Hardware Inventory Extensions Presentation

At the Minnesota System Center User Group last night, I presented on how to extend hardware inventory. Attached is the Powerpoint slides from that presentation.
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Wednesday, September 10, 2008 12:20 PM

ConfigMgr Hardware Inventory Snippets Updated - v1.3

MOF snippets have been updated, available from http://www.sccmexpert.com/MOF/Scripts.aspx What's new since 1.0? 9-10-2008 v1.3 - Added to 16-McAfeeEPO (thanks Rick !) 9-1-2008 v1.2 - Added to 19-PhysicalMemory...
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Tuesday, September 09, 2008 5:28 AM

Hardware Inventory - EPO Plugins

Rick Jones shared this mof snippet, see attached picture for a sample of the results returned. //SMS_DEF.MOF ///////////////////////////////////// // // // Mcafee ePO Plugins Enumeration // // // ////...
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Monday, September 01, 2008 2:20 PM

Physical Memory and Memory Slots Hardware Inventory extension

Building on Jeff Gilbert's Physical Memory mof edit, Greg Heuing has an additional edit to be able to pull in the # of memory slots on the motherboard. If you happen to need to know if there are any...
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Tuesday, August 26, 2008 8:24 PM

Mof extension to get Physical Hard Drive Serial Number

In either ConfigMgr or SMS, add this mof snippet to sms_def.mof in inboxes\clifiles.src\hinv on your primary sites. Note for the SMS2003 admins: no mofcomp'ing required on your clients; this is a server...
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Monday, August 25, 2008 9:11 PM

Hardware Inventory Action missing on ConfigMgr Client

Other than the obvious (you didn't enable Hardware Inventory in the console, Client Agents), if on your client the Hardware Inventory action is missing, the issue may be a misconfigured hardware inventory...
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Wednesday, July 23, 2008 8:38 PM

ConfigMgr 2007 Mof Snippets for extending Hardware Inventory

On www.sccmexpert.com , they have recently posted an update to the Individual MOF collection which was originally for SMS2003. They've been updated to be ConfigMgr - friendly. Go there, click on "The...
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Sunday, June 08, 2008 7:11 PM

Report on Local Administrators Group membership - updated

Ward Lange's original mof edit works great for 2000 and xp; but for Windows 2003 servers and Vista, the "BUILTIN" needed to be replaced with the local computer's name. Unfortunately,...
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Friday, May 30, 2008 4:44 PM

MDT 2008 Tattoo mof edit

By request, and untested, the tattoo placed in the registry for the HKLM\software\deployment 4\Deployment Method string regkey. //`'`*._.*`'`*- // Reporting Class - for ConfigMgr, put this section...
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Thursday, May 15, 2008 11:34 AM

McAfee 8.x Enterprise sms_def.mof Edit - ConfigMgr

I had a blog entry for SMS2003 ; but now that I'll be soon going to production w/ConfigMgr myself, thought I'd share some of the edits. As you may or may not know, the main differences between...
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Tuesday, April 22, 2008 12:56 AM

Inventory WindowsFirewall policy

Ken Lutz forwarded me this mof edit that he's using; it reads and reports on a registry key: // <:[-<>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>...
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Wednesday, March 05, 2008 12:48 PM

Enabling Inventory for Environment Variables - SMS2003/ConfigMgr

I often receive queries about extending the MOF to pull in regkeys. Occasionally, those regkeys happen to be located in HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Environment Instead of creating...
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Friday, February 22, 2008 5:31 AM

Finding computers with 'AutoAdminLogon' configured

Below is a mof edit and a suggested report to assist in finding computers which are configured to login automatically. By design, your imaging process may leverage AutoAdminLogon. In that case, AutoLogonCount...
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Tuesday, February 12, 2008 12:33 PM

Outlook Cached Mode via Hardware Inventory

We're in the midst of a project to get all users into Outlook Cached mode. We're using two methods to confirm this process, one is to look for a specific Group Policy being applied successfully...
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Thursday, January 10, 2008 12:33 PM

Group Policy History via SMS Inventory

Due to some interest on the SMS list, attached is a vbscript (rename the .txt to .vbs), and a .jpg of how it looks in Resource Explorer on 1 test lab client. I only tested it on 1 XP client in the lab;...
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Friday, November 16, 2007 5:09 PM

Enable DCOM

Vince Tran found an excellent utility for Enabling DCOM on Windows 2000/XP using SMS. No more visiting the computer, going to dcomcnfg, +Component Services, +Computers, right-click my computer, Default...
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Friday, November 16, 2007 12:07 AM

Stamp your MSI/MST

In an email list, I mentioned that we 'stamp' our repackaged .MSI's or any .MST's (Transforms) we modify with some additional registry keys, and the mini.mof has a section for pulling in...
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Thursday, October 25, 2007 10:04 AM

Dudeworks' Inventory Manager 2007

There may soon be no more reason for a mofmaster. I may need to give up the coolest email address I've ever had. Once people see the ease of use of http://www.dudeworks.com 's new product, Inventory...
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Wednesday, September 05, 2007 6:56 PM

HTA to manually input Lease Info - Hardware Inventory

A few weeks ago I assisted someone in modifying their .hta to gather Lease Info. Their original was excellently written; but it was trying to write out the gathered data as a noidmif and they were having...
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Thursday, August 23, 2007 10:36 AM

Extending Hardware Inventory for PNP Devices

A few days ago, the project manager for our desktop teleconferencing project came to me with a challenge. (He didn't know it was a challenge; he thought he was just asking for a new report!) The pilot...
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Friday, August 17, 2007 12:47 AM

Chicago Windows User Group - Extending HW Inventory

On August 16th, I spoke to a few people at the Chicago Windows User Group about extending Hardware Inventory using sms_def.mof Attached is the presentation, the mini.mof used for the demo, and the not...
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Sunday, July 15, 2007 6:49 PM

MOF edit - Remote Assistance Requests Accepted

Edit: Jeff wrote up a much better way to get this information. Please ignore the below (unless you plan on just using it as a template for something else), but if you are looking for Remote Assistance...
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Sunday, July 15, 2007 6:40 PM

MOF edit for .net framework versions

If you support Vista, or need to know if .net version 3.5 beta is installed, the attached MOF edit will help. It will report on installed for .net versions 1.1, 2.0, 3.0, and 3.5 (beta). Since 3.5 is in...
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Thursday, June 07, 2007 1:06 PM

Using a Mini Monster File for Hardware Inventory with SMS 2003

One of the many features of SMS is to extend SMS Hardware Inventory by adding customized classes to "sms_def.mof", which on your sms server is found in inboxes\clifiles.src\hinv. In general,...
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Friday, May 18, 2007 5:13 AM

McAfee 8.x Enterprise sms_def.mof Edit

The MOF edits in the SMSExpert MOF downloads include a section for the various versions of McAfee AntiVirus through 7.x. The 8.x version changed (again) in which registry keys the relevant information...
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Tuesday, May 01, 2007 10:22 PM

SMS 2003 SP3 upgrade and custom MOF classes

Have you added several custom classes to sms_def.mof (perhaps from the Monster )? or use a Mini.mof? Planning on upgrading your sms servers from SP2 to SP3? One trick I learned for my last upgrade (SP1...
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Wednesday, April 11, 2007 5:47 AM

MOFMaster

A few months ago, Dave Jaffe of www.SMSExpert.com asked if I would be interested in being " mofmaster@smsexpert.com " I was honored and flattered to be asked, but was hesitant at first. I certainly didn...
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Monday, March 05, 2007 9:39 PM

One Method to confirm DST 2007 changes

For some operating systems, the DST fix is essentially a registry key import. This outlines one method of reporting on specific elements within the SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\TimeZoneInformation, DaylightStart...
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