Configuration Items vs. Inventory

1. Configuration Items vs. Inventory Sherry Kissinger, MVP February 15, 2012

2. Agenda • Welcome: Ron Crumbaker, CTO, myITforum • Overview: BDNA & myITforum • Sherry Kissinger, MVP, mofmaster • Configuration Items vs. Inventory • Wrap Up: Rod Trent, CEO, myITforum • Tshirts & Quiz Winners

3. Google+ Hangouts & Forums • Reed Porter’s Hangout: http://tinychat.com/reedracer password: welcome • myITforum SCCM GURU webcast live forum http://myITforum.com/SCCMguru • #sccmguruhashtag on twitter

4. BDNA Normalize for ConfigMgr™ • NEW PRODUCT: BDNA Normalize CM™ • Extracts ConfigMgr inventory data • New native classes to use in console • Create queries, collections and reports • Demo on website: http://sccm.bdna.com • Download trial version, free for 60 days Pradeep Bhanot Product Marketing BDNA Normalize for ConfigMgr™

5. myITforum • Ron Crumbaker, myITforum • All things “System Center” • Since 1999 • Large and growing community (over 120,000 visitors a day) • Huge storehouse of System Center knowledge • Noobies to experts

6. Sherry Kissinger • System Center Configuration Manager MVP • ‘mofmaster’ • Speaker • Works at a Fortune 50 company with over 300,000 ConfigMgr Clients, with the self-proclaimed “best CM team in the world”. (No egos on this team  Ok, perhaps a little.)

7. Topics • Multiple approaches to get custom info into your db. • DCM ConfigItems • Inventory • SCUP (not covering that here) • Determining the right fit

8. Determining the right fit • Is it a yes/no answer? • How long do you need the information? • Do you need the information from just 50% of your clients? Or all of them? (this is less important in cm12, but may be relevant in cm07)

9. 1 Company CM12 Must Haves • The inventory and DCM rules we know we can’t live without in CM12 • Cm_localgroupmembers (DCM & hinv edit) • Got SCUP Cert? (App Deployment) • Hinv: A Regkey we’ve communicated to all that if you want to set a MW, populate a regkey locally with a value, and base a this-collection-is-only-for-MW collection query on it. • ComputerSystemProduct • DotNetFrameworks

10. 1 Company CM12 Must Haves (cont’d) • ProcessorAddtl • Server Feature (Servers only)

11. Example: Got SCUP Cert Decision (CM07) • In order to successfully deploy SCUPdates to clients, all clients targeted with SCUPdates (Adobe Flashplayer, for example) need to have a cert. For internal political reasons, we had to use a self-signed cert. • The DCM rule looks for 2 very specific registry keys which indicate that the self-signed cert is imported. If those keys exist, then compliant. • If those keys do not, then non-compliant… and fall into a collection, and that collection deserves getting the cert deployed via “normal” Soft Dist.

12. DEMO

13. 32bit vs. 64bit • ConfigMgr 2007 • Hardware inventory considerations • Software inventory considerations • ConfigMgr 2012 • Hardware inventory considerations • 1 difference from CM07 • Software inventory considerations • Differences from CM07

14. __ProviderArchitecture

15. DEMO

16. Resources • www.mofmaster.com • www.smguru.org • http://myitforum.com/myitforumwp/2011/10/04/software-inventory-tips-for-configmgr/ • http://myitforum.com/cs2/blogs/skissinger/archive/2010/04/25/report-on-all-members-of-all-local-groups.aspx • http://myitforum.com/cs2/blogs/skissinger/archive/2011/05/25/hardware-inventory-mof-edit-for-net-frameworks-updated-with-v1.aspx • http://myitforum.com/myitforumwp/2011/10/04/configmgr2012beta2-hardware-inventory-custom-wmi-2/ • http://myitforum.com/myitforumwp/2011/10/04/configmgr2012beta2-hardware-inventory-custom-wmi-2/ • http://myitforum.com/myitforumwp/2012/01/06/__providerarchitecture-in-inventory-mof-files/

17. Top Resources • Email Lists http://myitforum.com/myitforumwp/support/email-lists/ • Forums http://myitforum.com/myitforumwp/support/forums/ • Community Groups http://myitforum.com/myitforumwp/groups/

18. Top Resources • Instructionhttp://myitforum.com/myitforumwp/support/tv/ • MVPs – most of which participate at myITforum • Microsoft Management Summit http://www.mms-2011.com/

19. Wrap Up with Rod Trent Next SCCM GURU Webcast: • Wednesday, March 15, 2012 • Garth Jones, A Deep Dive into SCCM Data! Bring Your Snorkel!  www.bdna.com/sccm-guru

20. SCCM GURU Community Group http://myitforum.com/myitforumwp/groups/bdna/

21. SCCM GURU iTunes Podcasts SCCM Guru Webcast Series under Technology – Software How-To http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/sccm-guru-webcast-series/id491938468

22. SCCM GURU YouTube Channel http://www.youtube.com/BDNAcorp

23. SCCM GURU Swag Store http://www.cafepress.com/BDNA SCCM GURU Webcast t-shirt instructions at end of this presentation

24. Thanks for attending! To thank you for participating in our SCCM GURU webcast, we’d like to offer EVERYONE on the webcast a super cool SCCM GURU Webcast T-shirt. Please register here:  www.bdna.com/sherry

25. Reed Porter Quiz Winners • What does the “T” in Microsoft Solution Accelerator MDT stand for? Toolkit • Mariusz Gal & Michael Davis • According to Wally Mead, what is the best tool for Log Viewing, Code Edits, and MOF edits? Notepad • Chris Catlett & April Cook • What is this Star Trek character’s middle name? Fenton • Travis Rauschek & George Simos

26. Questions, Contact Info For more information… BDNA Normalize for ConfigMgr™ http://sccm.bdna.com sccm@bdna.com myITforum Rod Trent rodtrent@myitforum.com +1 (513) 217-7122