Collection query rule troubles

Question

I am trying to apply criteria to a collection and am having some issues. I have sucsessfully created a query that will group systems by OU membership but also want to filter it by oprerating system IE only show windows XP systems in the collection.
I have tried to add criteria based on operating system version but its just not working..... Below is the query:
select SMS_R_SYSTEM.ResourceID,SMS_R_SYSTEM.ResourceType,SMS_R_SYSTEM.Name,SMS_R_SYSTEM.SMSUniqueIdentifier,SMS_R_SYSTEM.ResourceDomainORWorkgroup,SMS_R_SYSTEM.Client from SMS_R_System inner join SMS_G_System_OPERATING_SYSTEM on SMS_G_System_OPERATING_SYSTEM.ResourceID
= SMS_R_System.ResourceId where SMS_R_System.SystemOUName = "PLACE.ORG/PLACEHARDWARE/LOCATION/WORKSTATIONS/KIOSKWORKSTATIONS" and SMS_G_System_OPERATING_SYSTEM.Version = "5.1.2600" order by SMS_R_System.Nam
Any suggestions????
tconners

Answer 1

You can also try to create 2 separate collections.  First create a collection that shows all windows xp machines in your environment and validate that you can get that working.  Once you have that collection, create the collection that shows
all machines in the required ou, and for this collection use the windows xp collection as your limiting collection.  This will effectively show you all machines in that ou that are running windows xp.  Sometimes it can be easier to break thing up
into multiple collections and utilize the limiting collection feature or the include and exclude rules, as complex queries can be more difficult to troubleshoot if you have just a single logic or syntax error, and they can be more easily reused in future collections,
such as another collection for another ou, instead of creating a more complex query, you can just create a query for the ou and limit it to the xp collection as well.