Device Collections vs Reports

Fairly new user to System Center 2012 here, so still trying to learn the ins and outs.
Last Thursday, we deployed new software to every PC in our environment. The deployment uninstalled the old application and installed the new one. The job itself was a success (not bad for my first one!).
Anyhow, I had built a SQL based device collection for each application so that I could monitor how many PCs have each application. Essentially, I wanted to watch one grow while the other declined.
I also built a report for each application based on what Add/Remove Programs is reporting so that I could have something to export to Excel to provide updates to management. We run software scans daily on all of our PCs and 90% physically remain
on the network all hours of the day.
My question is: Why is the device collection showing so many more computers having the new software than the report is? I would think they would both always report the same number. For example, the device collection shows 2021 members with
the new application, however the report shows 1565. The report makes it appear as though the deployment was a failure, but the device collection says otherwise. Today is day 5 so I just find it odd that it's taking so long for the report to catch
up. Maybe I've missed a setting to configure the clients to run an inventory scan daily?
Administration - Client Settings - Software Inventory - Occurs every 1 day effective mm/dd/yyyy 10:00AM.

Yep hardware inventory is the one you want.
Do you really need a software inventory every day?
http://be.enhansoft.com/post/2013/10/03/Slow-Software-Inventory-Cycle-in-SCCM-2012.aspx
You can also force a hardware inventory full / delta with the right click tools by now micro. it's a very good free addition.

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I have created device collection and select the Operating system from Add criteria but operating system is showing as below..
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No, you can't run a query one time that will change this information in the console. The info displayed in the console is what is being discovered out of Active Directory for the the Computer Object.
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Hello !
In addition, if you want to export collection memberships with more details like operating system, serial number, model, memory, proc, etc...
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Need help creating a device collection based on members of a user collection

Hello everyone,
I am working on developing a device collection based on the membership of a user collection. The purpose of the device collection is to provide us with the capability of deploying software to users while the users are logged off their systems.
I would love to use AD security groups but unfortunately that isn't an available approach in this case. I have been experimenting with SQL queries to find the best way to obtain the results I want and the following query works like a champ:
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SMS_R_User.UniqueUserName
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Thanks in advance for the assist,
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Hi Torsten,
While your suggestion of that link was close, it still went in the direction of using security groups as the basis for device queries and that isn't the direction I am pursuing. I had a colleague look at my original query and he identified
that I had some unnecessary redundancy but that didn't resolve my SQL -> WQL inconsistency. I continued to play with the query and the following SQL also works (and actually works a bit better for my purposes)
select distinct v_R_System.Name0,
v_R_User.Unique_User_Name0
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JOIN v_UserMachineRelationship ON v_R_System.Name0 = v_UserMachineRelationship.MachineResourceName
JOIN v_FullCollectionMembership on v_R_User.Unique_User_Name0 = v_FullCollectionMembership.SMSID
WHERE v_FullCollectionMembership.CollectionID = 'cha0000b'
however when I translate it to WQL I still am unable to get results (here is the WQL version)
select distinct sms_R_system.Name,
sms_R_User.UniqueUserName
FROM sms_R_system
JOIN SMS_R_User on SMS_R_User.FullUserName = SMS_R_System.UserName
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Windows 8.1 laptop computer not showing in SCCM 2012 devices collection

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I am trying to do a POC on license management from SCCM 2012. I have configures a SCCM 2012 server and intune subscription also. I have Android, iOS and desktop apps uploaded (.msi). when I enrolled android and ios devices its shows up in SCCM,
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If you installed the Intune agents on the Win 8.1 and Win 7 systems, then they will never show up in ConfigMgr.
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Help me in creating a Device Collection - i have a list of machine name (in a excel or CSV file)

Hello Guys,
I have created a Device collection for UK region (2000+ machines)
Now i have been given a list of 1000 machines to which i need to deploy an application.
I have to create a device collection for this 1000+ machines. as an input i have a excel or CSV file with a list of machine names.
Please suggest me how can i create a device collection with CSV file as input. Is my CSV file should be in particular format.
Or is there any other way i can create a collection for this 1000 specific machines.
Please suggest.

My previous post was for sccm 2012.
here its for 2007
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Import Computer Information
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COMPUTERNAME,GUID,MACADDRESS
(sample below)
Quote
deployvista,3ED92460-0448-6C45-8FB8-A60002A5B52F,00:03:FF:71:7D:76
NEWCOMP1,55555555-5555-5555-5555-555555555555,05:06:07:08:09:0A
NEWPXE,23CA788C-AF62-6246-9923-816CFB6DD39F,00:03:FF:72:7D:76
w2k8deploy,BFAD6FF2-A04E-6E41-9060-C6FB9EDD4C54,00:03:FF:77:7D:76
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the file can be a standard TEXT file that you create in notepad, and you can rename it to CSV for easier importing into our wizard...
so, click on Browse and browse to where you've got your CSV file
on the Choose Mapping screen, you can select columns and define what to do with that mapping, eg: you could tell it to ignore the GUID value (we won't however)
on the next screen you'll see a Data Preview, and this is useful as it will highlight any errors it finds with a red exclamation mark, in the example below a typo meant that it correctly flagged the MAC address as invalid
so edit your CSV file again and fix the error, click previous (back) and try again
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I've created a device collection using a query that has list of machines with a specific application installed.
I have an updated version of that application that I'd like to deploy to that collection.
I'd like to stagger the deployment so that the update takes place on few computers each day or so. For example, every night update the application on 10 machines.
Can this be done? I'm using SCCM 2012 SP1.
Pman
http://www.pmansLab.com/

There's no direct way to do this.
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Report Output
Collection                Open                  30 Day             60 Day                     90 Day              120 Day     Total
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SSS

Hi Experts,
this link only for key date ageing means customer ageing on an particular date, but we need ageing of collection for particular period like we take collection during the month of Nov-11 & now we want to see ageing of this collection ag.cleared which invoice (bill).
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[ Tue Dec 29 20:26:51 CST 2009 ],ERROR,[Thread-22],com.cisco.nm.rmeng.util.logger.XDILogger,57,com.cisco.nm.xms.xdi.SdiEngine,initAndEvalAGIs,385,rp Software (s72033_rp-IPSERVICESK9_WAN-M)
[ Tue Dec 29 20:28:40 CST 2009 ],ERROR,[Thread-22],com.cisco.nm.rmeng.inventory.ics.core.CollectionController,721,Exception for device 172.21.90.1 is
java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor10.invoke(Unknown Source)
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