Network device inventory SCCM 2012 R2

What is the best way to create an inventory report of all snmp devices using SCCM? I am trying to do as much as I can with a single tool.

ConfigMgr is not a good tool for this IMO.
Ultimately, you *could* enable network discovery to discover SNMP devices, but this feature hasn't changed in 10+ years and I would never use it for this.
Jason | http://blog.configmgrftw.com | @jasonsandys

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Problems with E531 network drivers in SCCM 2012 R2

We are having some serious issues with SCCM 2012 R2 operating system deployment (Windows 7) and the Thinkpad Edge E531 laptop - network drivers are not being applied during the imaging process. Do SCCM driver packages exist for this laptop?
I downloaded the ethernet drivers manually from here, extracted the files from the executable, imported the drivers into SCCM (it found them), and created a driver package for this model. I also added the drivers to the boot images.
I do not have an issue during the PXE phase, it is only during the Windows phase - and the laptop is unable to join the domain because it does not have network drivers.
In the OSD Task Sequence, I have tried both the auto-apply device drivers rule (default), and creating a special rule for Lenovo E531 with the WMI query: SELECT * FROM Win32_ComputerSystem WHERE Model LIKE "%6885YU%" . The task sequences all work perfectly on virtual machines, so I am fairly certain this is a driver issue. I have tried Windows 7 x86, x64, and Windows 8.1 x64.
Any thoughts are welcome - I am new to this particular school district and have never deployed Lenovo in my previous environments. I am about to select a model for this year's laptop purchases and at this point, I am backing away from Lenovo due to this issue.

We do not create SCCM driver packs for the Edge line of products. As an alternative you can use Update Retriever to download hardware drivers for a selected model and then use the Export feature to create a folder containing the source files for the drivers. This can then be used in the Driver Import Wizard which will locate the INF files and only import the files referenced by the INF files.
You mention you are using SCCM 2012 R2. This means you should be using the Windows ADK for 8.1 which also means your boot images should be using Windows PE 5. For your boot images you should be using the Windows 8.1 driver (http://download.lenovo.com/ibmdl/pub/pc/pccbbs/mobiles/herr01ww.exe)
In your OSD task sequence you need to be deploying Windows 7 drivers (http://download.lenovo.com/ibmdl/pub/pc/pccbbs/mobiles/her101ww.exe)
Make sure you keep these separate. Meaning you should have a driver package for the Windows 7 drivers that you reference in an Apply Drivers task and this package should not include the Windows 8.1 drivers. Add just the 8.1 drivers to the boot image.

Remove network device inventory from SCOM database

Hello Gurus
I have a quick question. I think one of the internal connectors in my SCOM environment has got deleted by mistake. As a result all the network devices that were being monitored previously has now disappeared. I believe because they were present in the database,
I can't discover them now. Is it possible somehow to list those network devices from the database, and then delete them, by using powershell and/or SQL.
Any help in this regard will be greatly appreciated.
Regards,

You can delete them by:
In the Discovery Rules option under the Administration Tab, you will be able to see all the network devices that are discovered. This shows the devices that are discovered and currently getting monitored in SCOM. You can select multiple devices and then
remove them.
Then Run in powershell Get-RemotelyManagedDevice to check that all Network devices deleted.
you can also check below link to remove/restore network device
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh212795.aspx
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How to remove network devices through powershell? (scom 2012)

Hi
Could anyone says how to delete network device in SCOM 2012 through powershell?
In 2007 we have Get-RemotelyManagedDevice.
I have a big number network device in monitoring and now need delete some of them with specific filter, all switches.
How to do it?
Thanks
Alex

The devices were discovered by an old Management Server that was reinstalled.
I finally got those devices out of my SCOM environment using this SQL query (just replace networkdevicename):
UPDATE
BaseManagedEntity
SET
isdeleted=1
from
BaseManagedEntity where
BaseManagedEntityId in
(select
BaseManagedEntityId from
BaseManagedEntity where
displayname like
'%networkdevicename%')

Workgroup client cannot discovered SCCM 2012 R2

Hi,
I have enabled the Network Discovery in SCCM 2012 R2, and defined the subnet of clients that I want to manage. Then IP subnet boundaries has been created. When I see
Devices in Assets and Compliance, the workgroup clients cannot discovered.
Communication between the workgroup clients with SCCM server is no issue in the network, by ping and mapping folder share in both is good. Windows firewall on all workgroup clients has configured to allow port File and Printer Sharing and WMI.
How I can discovered all Workgroup clients?
Thanks
Regards, Bar Waelah

Hi Bar Waelah,
I think you need to configure the Maximum hops on the bottom of SNMP Tab.
For more details, please check the Limiting Network Discovery.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg712308.aspx#BKMK_NetworkDisc
You could also specify the IP Address or NetBIOS name of the device in SNMP Devices.
Best Regards,
Joyce
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SCCM 2012 - Trying Evaluation version

Hello all,
I'm trying out the 180 day evaluation version of SCCM 2012 R2 downloaded from Microsoft as part of a small POC, (VHD format) which is pre-configured and installed with all the pre-requisites.
As part of this exercise, I wanted to perform a simple discovery of devices in SCCM 2012 but after enabling all the "discovery methods" I do not see any devices in the collection after running the discovery. The VHD format is configured with a
'contoso' domain and this feature is 'locked' as a result I'm not able to configure this 'vhd' format to our internal domain to help discovery.
My question: is there a way to by-pass this domain and perform discovery or is this a limitation in the evaluation version of SCCM? or am I missing something?
Any help on this is appreciated.
thanks

I don't believe so. You should just download the bits from the VLC and install it for yourself. You could have a small test environment in no time at all. Collocate your PS and SQL server, add a DP, and you should be close to lab testing.
Make sure you are not running discovery across your whole environment if this is just a lab.
Best, Jacob I'm a PC.

Network device disappeared

Hi!
I was adding some network devices to SCOM 2012 R2. One of my network devices appeared as a pending device. Reason: No Response SNMP.
After I added my scom management server to the accepted list on the server I wanted to monitor under the SNMP service it just disappeared from my SCOM management console. I cant find it under pending or Network Devices now.
If I try to run a discover again I cant find the device again, even if I remove the scom management server from the accepted list on the SNMP service. The only way to find the device again is to discover it only using ICMP.

Hi,
Please check the event log of the Management Server where you assigned discovery to run. If discovery was a success, you will see your network device show up in the Admin console, under Network devices.
Niki Han
TechNet Community Support

Wifi profiles SCCM 2012 R2 and Windows Intune

Hi All,
A quick question regarding SCCM 2012 R2 and the new Wifi Profiles feature...
Can anyone confirm if you need windows Intune combined with SCCM 2012 R2 to be able to deploy WIFI profiles to users devices i.e Windows 8.1, IOS and Android platforms? Microsoft documentation is not clear on this subject.
Any help would be much appreciated.
Regards PowerShell90

It not as straight forward as one would hope. I am running the latest version of SCCM 2012 R2 CU2 connected to my Windows Intune subscription. There are a lot of hickups. One is that the direct of management needs to be all or nothing. In other words you
either need to use Windows Intune solely to manage your devices or SCCM 2012 R2 (via connector). If the later then you must do everything from in SCCM 2012 R2. You cannot hybrid manage your devices as this will screw things up.
Android for some reason is left out on a lot of features. I would think that MS Devs would work hard on the market share that being Android, not iOS. Any way, accord to some official MS articles Android is supported, but others claim that not all features
are, these being the important ones like Email and Wi-Fi Profiles. They simply do not work.
I think MS is heading in the right direction but there is a lot of work that needs to be done before this is a competitive product. I could care less if connects to my SCCM 2012 R2 server or not. Here are few things that I sent o a MS Support Rep today that
need to be address.
1. Better response time when updating devices after enrollment (e.g. Name change).
2. The ability to locked down uninstalling Windows Intune from device.<o:p></o:p>
3. The ability to locked down certain features in the Windows Intune app on device (e.g. User can reset device with Windows Intune app, rename, etc...).<o:p></o:p>
4. Ability to rename device in either Windows Intune Admin Portal and/or SCCM 2-12 R2.<o:p></o:p>

A little confused on vPro and SCCM 2012 R2

Hi folks. I have a question regarding vPro and SCCM, hopefully someone can help.
Do I need an SCS sever to integrate and provision vPro devices with SCCM 2012 R2?
I basically just want to be able to remotely provision the devices for vPro (certs ect) and take advantage of the WOL and shutdown functionality for patch management and I would rather avoid setting up an SCS server if possible. Any advice welcome, thanks in
advance.
Best,
Pete

I really suggest that you take a look at integrating SCS, because ConfigMgr only supports these versions of the AMT (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg682077.aspx#BKMK_SupConfigOOB):
Intel AMT version 3.2 with a minimum revision of 3.2.1
Intel AMT version 4.0, version 4.1, and version 4.2
Intel AMT version 5.0 and version 5.2 with a minimum revision of 5.2.10
Intel AMT version 6.0 and version 6.1
And all the new PCs come with newer version of AMT.
Some guides to get you started with vPro:
http://windowsmasher.wordpress.com/2013/10/05/intel-vpro-the-basics-of-vpro/
http://blogs.bamits.com.au/2012/09/integrating-sccm-2012-with-scs-81.html

Side Loading Keys + SCCM 2012

Hi,
To enable support for Windows 8 /Windows Phone devices on SCCM 2012 R2, we need side loading key + certificate.
For lab purposes, can we get some kind of trials etc (without purchasing)
N.A.Malik

Hi Again,
OK, now the Windows 8 Phone Support is enabled in CM 2012 R2 with the Trail Pack.
Now I try to enroll the W8Phone ... to do so, I need to install IntunePortal on W8P.
Here i am stuck again with the Code-Sign-In certificate.
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/confirmation.aspx?id=36060#
After downloading the Company Portal App, sign the Company Portal App with the Windows Phone 8 code signing certificate you received from Symantec via the Microsoft portal and then include the signed Company Portal App in System Center 2012 Configuration Manager
with the Windows Intune subscription or the Windows Intune setup wizard.
How I can enroll W8P with this trail pack?
N.A.Malik

SCCM 2012 and Exchange 2013 Connector

Hello all,
I hope that you are well!
I have an issue that I can't explain for the moment, maybe someone can help me.
Actually we have SCCM 2012 SP1 and Exchange 2013 Enterprise in our LAN.
Now I did the configuration within SCCM of creating a new Exchange Server Connectors, everything seem's to be okay, no warning, no active alert, the Exchange server connection account and so on..
But I can't see the mobile devices from my user into the All Mobile Devices within SCCM 2012.
Do I miss something into this specific configuration, certificate or something related !
Best regards to all of you
Stephane

Hello Gerry,
This is what I got on EassDisc.log
ERROR: [MANAGED] Invoking cmdlet Get-Recipient failed. Exception: System.Management.Automation.RemoteException: Cannot bind parameter 'Filter' to the target. Exception setting "Filter": "The value "$true" could not be converted to type System.Boolean."~~
at System.Management.Automation.PowerShell.CoreInvoke[TOutput](IEnumerable input, PSDataCollection`1 output, PSInvocationSettings settings)~~   at System.Management.Automation.PowerShell.Invoke(IEnumerable input, PSInvocationSettings settings)~~
at System.Management.Automation.PowerShell.Invoke()~~   at Microsoft.ConfigurationManager.ExchangeConnector.Connector.Invoke(PSCommand cmd)
ERROR: [MANAGED] Exception: Cannot bind parameter 'Filter' to the target. Exception setting "Filter": "The value "$true" could not be converted to type System.Boolean."
ERROR: Failed to check status of discovery thread of managed COM. error = Unknown error 0x80131501
But that is old error, since I configure the Account properly
Regards to you,
Stephane

Can SCCM 2012 alert me when new devices are found on the network?

I have a single SCCM 2012 SP1 CU4 server running on Windows Server 2012. I use it primarily for Endpoint Protection and Windows Updates.
I have 18 locations in my organization. I am having a problem with a particular remote site buying their own IT equipment (computers, switches, access points, etc.). I was wondering if it is possible for my SCCM server to e-mail (alert) me whenever
it detects a new device on the network? Or should I be looking at
SCOM for something like this? If SCCM will not do this, can anyone suggest some freeware that might do what I am looking for?
Thanks!

The answer to that would be ... it depends.
If the computers are domain joined and your AD discovery method is enabled they will end up in the ConfigMgr database. From that point onward you could create a custom reports that lists these systems. You can subscribe to the report to get it through email.
For network devices you could also do something similar but initially you would have to enable network discovery in ConfigMgr.
Highly impractical IMO. I seriously doubt this could ever work in a production environment of any real size.
In addition.... Network discovery in CM is nasty!
John Marcum | http://myitforum.com/myitforumwp/author/johnmarcum/

SCCM 2012 hardware Inventory

I want my
Inventory for Printers and Scanner (USB or Network Model), network devices such as Switches and router and any devices attached to POS terminals such as PDT, Monitor, and Keyboard. Can SCCM 2012 R2 can do this.
How to configure this feature if SCCM 2012 can do
Rgds, SSJE

ConfigMgr can run a network discovery, however the information you will get back on the objects will be limited to IP address, hostname and mac address. Check in the discover methods in the Administation workspace.
You can extend the hardware classes to gather more information on printers - some info here
http://www.74k.org/find-printer-information-in-sccm-2012
You already get monitor details in ConfigMgr. This blog gives you some info on how to get a little extra from the EDID data. http://exar.ch/collecting-monitor-serial-numbers-with-sccm/
Cheers
Paul | sccmentor.wordpress.com

Deploying the SCCM 2012 Client to WES 7 devices that are locked down with the FBWF using 2007 task sequence via WEDM.

I'm wondering how people are migrating their embedded devices that are using the FBWF. I've done some googling and it seems like most people are just re-imaging the devices and after migrating a single device i see why. Its not a pretty process. This will
be a long description but ultimately my question stems more from trying to find a better way to execute the device migration from 2007 to 2012.
Some back ground on my situation might be in order here. I'm in the process of wrapping up our 2007 to 2012 migration. We have a 2007 infrastructure that was a central server with 2 primaries and 286 secondary site servers. I've consolidated that to a single
2012 primary site server that hosts all the main roles. There are 2 more servers in the data centers both operating solely as push distribution points I'll refer to them as 2012 01 02 and 03. I'm over half way through the migration and so far haven't needed
to offload any site roles. There are almost 10,000 clients now reporting to the 2012 site server and almost a 100 field servers pulling content from 2012 02 as their source dp as pull dp is the only way forward for this many devices. I've read the horror stories
of trying spin up 200 plus push dps. We are running PKI. I'm at the point now where i need to start migrating the Windows Embedded Seven Standard clients that have the 2007 sccm client on them with WEDM for write filter handling.
What i'm wondering is if anyone has any pointers for me regarding migrating the WES 7 devices. My plan that i've come up with is to somehow script the process using a 2007 WEDM Task Sequence to try and migrate them over to 2012. Things are complicated as
I need to somehow script the install, the policy checkin, hardware inventory, software inventory, and validate the SCEP client installs before I reboot the device one last time to enable the FBWF. How I handled the SCCM 2007 client install on these devices
when they were provisioned was to just create a batch file that would sleep for ten minutes then check to see if the inventoryagent.log file had been created yet. I realize now that is inefficient as i can kick off the inventory using a WMI method once the
client has installed. Also I need to make sure the machine gets its first policy as that is how it creates the communication using PKI through that first policy transfer and that also finalizes the client install. The biggest piece i'm uncertain about in this
regard is the SCEP client.
I had to change the SCEP client install from yes to no in the default client settings as we have some Mcaffee servers that can't have the SCEP client on them. I have incremental updates enabled on the collection that has the policy that installs the SCEP
client but this will take an unknown amount of time unless i force the environment to update as the device starts in 2012 install, or if I could kick off the SCEP isntall... IDK. I'm also wondering if i should keep the device in the migration process until
i validate it has its proper scep policy applied which I believe can be validated by a registry key somewhere.
Once the 2012 client gets installed will that cause it to lose its place within the 2007 Task Sequence? Considering its going to take a minimum of 2 reboots I'd normally use the task sequence to handle its progression through the process.
I'm also considering trying to use an Orchestrator runbook, as that would be a good way to keep track of the migration process as each device migrates. Especially since this might take several seperate scripts.
I'm going to take a stab at scripting the migration process, but if anyone has any pointers that might make this a less complicated I'd really appreciate it as I've got about 3000 of these devices that need to be migrated over. The other things i've learned
the hard way is any time you have something this complicated over the course of 3000 devices you will run into unknowns and the failure rate increases. I'm in the precarious position of having to not only build this process out but in some situations have
it complete in the shortest amount of time possible as we have sites running 24x7. I know the end users behavior all to well and they will just keep hitting the power button sometimes even though their not supposed to so they can get their device functional
again. In those situations i'd end up, if i'm lucky with a device that no longer has a healthy SCCM client in either environment and the write filter disabled.
So like i said any pointers anyone could throw my way i'd really appreciate. I manually went through the migration process on a single device for proof of concept and ended up with almost 2 pages of pseudo code for my migration script/scripts.
Thanks,
-K.R.

Hi,
In R2 there are some new variables you can use to solve this,
http://ccmexec.com/2014/12/smstsmplistrequesttimeout-value-in-milliseconds/
In Sp1 though adding a step to sleep for 2-5 minuter after reboot and before the application install step is a common workaround.. a powershell command with "Start-Sleep
-s 120" should do it.
/Jörgen
-- My System Center blog ccmexec.com -- Twitter
@ccmexec

Editing Configuration.MOF For Network Printers/Mapped Drives SCCM 2012?

Question is in Configuration Manager 2007 I would edit the SMS Def MOF file and then run Datashift.vbs on all the clients to add a WMI class for mapped drives for inventory. So most of my clients that I upgraded to 2012 already have that class added
to WMI. I just need to figure out what I need to do on the new server and Configuration.MOF (since SMS Def is missing in 2012) to tell it to collect the newly added classes during hardware inventory. I see that you can click on Set Classes in the client settings
but I don't see where you can check mapped drives or network printers there.

There is no out-of-box solution to handle this task.
But try this. This has worked for us really well. We've got 22000 machines inventoried.
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/c08c393d-1ea4-4f6b-8f07-affc0f743193/network-printer-inventory-in-system-centre-configuration-manger-sccm-2012?forum=configmanagergeneral#c08c393d-1ea4-4f6b-8f07-affc0f743193

Network device inventory SCCM 2012 R2

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