Month: June 2010

SCCM: Collection Query to Find Machines Discovered via AD System Discovery in the last day without latest SCCM Client

In the final days I have with my current employer, I've been doing some client cleanup. As you may know, Active Directory System Discovery can make a mess out of your SCCM environment if AD isn't kept clean. We have a lot of records in our DB that just don't have the SCCM Client for…
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SCCM SCUP: How to Install Adobe Flash Player 10.1.53.64

With the new release of Flash Player 10.1 I've noticed in our environment that we were unable to install the Active X component for IE systems using the provided MSI file with SCUP. I've read in a few places that it's best to utilize the .exe instead of the .msi that is provided by Adobe.…
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MS10-041 KB979909 .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 and for the .NET Framework 2.0 Service Pack 2 for Windows 2000, for Windows Server 2003, and for Windows XP Fails to Install

Sorry for the long title. This past Tuesday Microsoft released a slew of new security patches. I won't go into detail about all of them, but suffice it to say we're seeing KB979909 become a pretty hairy thorn in our side. We deploy all of our updates via SCCM. In my pilot testing I've noticed…
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SCCM Fix: Error 0x80070643 or 0x8024200b when installing Office 2003 Updates by using WSUS or SCCM

In our SCCM test environment we were installing this months Microsoft Security Updates and noticed on one test machine that all the Office 2003 Updates were failing. I hadn't seen this before, so I started to do a little digging. Knowing that SCCM really doesn't do much but call the Windows Update Agent components, I…
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