GarthMJ

Assume that you have 10000 PCs. If you schedule that to occur at the predefined time say 9PM, you are then forcing every one of your PC to talk to your MP at 9pm. Then you are forcing all 10000PC to send their HW Inventory all at the same time. This will cause a backlog on the site server that will take time to clean up. It get worse if you also tell the PCs to do all of the other task at the same time. SW, Heartbeat, SU Scan, etc... It is not best practice to schedule these tasks, it always best practice to use a simple schedule as this will allow all of the inventory/scans to occur over several hours generally from 6am - 10 am. Thereby not overloading any particular part of your network or CM environment. On top of that if any PC is turn off at 9pm, they will perform these same tasks when the PC is turned on next and therefore you are not protecting them at all from the "risk". IMO there is no risk to any of the clients using the setting that I have suggested. I know that most of the other MVPs will also recommend similar settings. Particularly with respect to SW Inv. SW Inv is the only Inventory task that client will "feel" and most of the MVP will recommend that you turn it off or have very strict guideline about using it.

Actually I don't recommend scheduling a time for the inventories to occur as this will affect your site server performance. I always recommend that you use a simple schedule and depending on what inventory task it is, they have different values. IMO only SW inv. will have performance issues on end clients. HW tends to be ~80 seconds and Heartbeat is ~1 second, I have yet to see any client notice either of them. HW Inv. every 1 day SW Inv. Disabled or every 14 days Heartbeat: every 1 day or once hour; depending on needs of the client.

Do you have a simple schedule or a custom schedule? As Peter says the cached HW inv will be upload when the PCs connects to the network.

Have you edited a report before? if yes then adjust the query to add the new view and column, then add the column to the table. if not then this is a much bigger task.

Sure you can edit the report and add it. You will find the Processor name under the v_GS_PROCESSOR in the Name column.

In CM12R2 the SSRS folder is called Upgrade Assessment.

Is this for CM07 or CM12? Have you look at the built-in report for example Upgrade Assessment - Windows 7

Maybe I’m missing the obvious but there is no special trick to adding more WM to a collection. Just add them as you normally would.

sure you can setup multiply MW on a Collection.

Yes you can upgrade the OS. http://be.enhansoft.com/post/2014/01/14/Upgrading-SCCM-2012-R2s-Site-Server-Operating-System.aspx

But why would it run again? It will only do that if you have an deployment setup to install on these WS, otherwise it will not do anything..

There is a bit of a tutorial in the CM12 docs but it is really basic..

You can get the collection info. from the v_collections and v_Fullcollectionmebership view.

Why would Software Rerun?

Download the RDL, make you change via BIDS or Report Builder and upload it back to your CM12 SSRS site. Don't forget to rest your datasource. http://be.enhansoft.com/post/2010/08/26/How-to-Change-the-SSRS-Datasource.aspx\ http://be.enhansoft.com/post/2013/10/10/How-To-Upload-a-SSRS-Report-and-Change-its-Data-Source.aspx

No need to uninstall the CM12 client, Personally I would just push out your CM12 client to these new PCs. Just make sure that you are at the same client level or higher.

Stupid question is there an reason why you have combined both RBA and non-RBA data together?

No there is no way to enable this globally. You would need to edit each and every report to add this.

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I never seen these be exactly the same and I think that is your problem. The first one is always ReportServer and the second one is Reports. Is this a shared SSRS server? If not then change the two items back to the defaults. If so, then make sure that both URLs are different. ReportService_<sitecode> and Reports_<Sitecode>. Once fixed reinstall the RP and everything should be good.

These are not the defaults. I have to figure out how to upload pic to this forums but what exactly do you have for Web Service URL and Report Manager URL in Reporting Services Configuration Manager (part of SQL/SSRS)

This report will get you started. http://smsug.ca/blogs/garth_jones/archive/2008/02/04/basic-all-in-one.aspx There are lots of this type of thing on my blog. BTW, I never recommend adding IP address to a report.

The url that you have listed is not correct. What exactly is the url that you are using? Is it Reports or ReportServer?

90 days is the default time before an PC is delete from the database. You can increase this to 370 days . To delete and PC, locate it within the console, right-click and select delete.

Which built-in report are you talking about?