GarthMJ

How many primary sites will you have? Will you have a CAS? To quote the docs "When you use SQL Server Standard for the database at the central administration site, the hierarchy can only support up to 50,000 clients." And there is NO way to upgrade from standard database format to Enterprise database format. If you don’t' have a CAS then you don't need to worry about this until you hit 100k users.

What you have there already list the last user logon as of the last heartbeat. The only way to add last time a user used the console is to add System Console User to the query. This complicates the query as the view needs to be enable first (AI class) and most PC will have more than 1 user listed. To get it to one line/pc is not a simple task.

What do you mean by upgrade? What is the maximum number of clients you will ever have?

1) Yes it will work and IP Ranges is the preferred method for boundaries. If you where getting an erro is was most like because you had your boundaries setup incorrectly, generally this happen when AD or Subnet boundaries are used. 2) Yes that is a good plan that was you can protect DPs, this allow you to have better control over, which client use which DP.

try this. http://smsug.ca/blogs/garth_jones/archive/2013/01/11/wmi-query-for-c-with-more-than-1gb-of-hd-space.aspx

Sorry, no you can’t do that. Can I ask why you care?

We can’t definitively answer this question without your query. You need to post your query, before anyone can truly answer this. Based on the query and how it was written, you will need to check you ARP data too, to confirm that the arp data is unique from the older version.

CM07 server must be administrator on the remote server always, otherwise your backup will not work. This is one of the reason why I NEVER recommend remote SQL.

It is the same in CM12, However with SSRS reporting you can make it one big report. It did that for a client.

Why not use the NON AI report for OS details Count operating system versions. Personally I don’t use the AI due to the AI being unreliable.

This KB will help you get started. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/944375/en-us?p=1

AI doesn't using Software Inventory at all. So there is no need to enabled it at all.

So this tell me that there is a problem with your MP. Confirm that the service is running. Reboot the server If that doesn't fix it , Re-install the MP.

Have you installed all the AI software updates? This is one of the issue with AI.

Read this article, where does HW inventory stop? http://www.myitforum.com/articles/8/view.asp?id=11236

IMO this issue is likely because the CM07/CM12 client is not installed on these PCs. The PCs have been discovered by CM via AD discovery but the CM client has not be installed.

IMO this issue is like because the CM07/CM12 client is not installed on these PCs. The PCs have been discovered by CM via AD discovery but the CM client has not be installed.

There is a built-in report that does this. “Count of all instances of software registered with Add or Remove Programs”

Are you talking about Hardware (RAM/CPU) or are you talking OS (reg settings/File permission) or are you talking about Software (Office 2007/Visio)?

What do you mean by “while checking in the machine's appwiz is reflect only 10 patches”? Neither CM07 nor CM12 has an interface to check installed software updates., so what are you using for this?

Really only the vendor can answer this question as to how to install the application or you can try http://www.itninja.com/. Assumed that you have tried the traditional command line switches. /q or /s or /silent

Each of these are subselect query. http://smsug.ca/blogs/garth_jones/archive/2007/05/08/subset-query.aspx http://smsug.ca/blogs/garth_jones/archive/2007/05/10/wql-subset-query.aspx http://smsug.ca/blogs/garth_jones/archive/2007/05/09/sql-subset-query.aspx

You can donwlaod CM12 SP1 from technet or msdn. now.. 1 Hour and 14 minutes left to download all SP1 for all SC products. ;-)

No, there is no easy way to determine which package are not used and have an active advertisement. The easy ones are to determine which one are not deploy to DP and which packages don't have adverts. After that, you need to manually look at each package and determine if the package is used on not. IMO, it is an SCCM admins job to talk to their clients and ask the clients if a package is still being used. If not remove it. Yes, I know it take a while by if my management don't care how much disk space I use, then I don't care either. And this means that I will not chase clients until my management cares, which at that point means that they will support me if I need to remove a package when the client doesn't want me too.

I’m just getting back to this.. Are you still having a problem? If so, I would first apply CM12 SP1 (just released today) , if that doesn’t fix the problem I would contact CSS (MS Support).