bonedog73

How do you all tell if all the computers in a lab are on or off? We used to use Altiris and we could easily select a lab of computers and tell if they were on/off and if someone was logged in or not. But now we use SCCM 2012 and the only way to tell if a computer is on is to ping it. What if I've got 1000+ computers to check?

Hmmm thanks, that may work for one machine but I surely can't do that for whole labs at a time, I'm looking at this PDQ Inventory program and it may be what I end up using.

Maximum run time - the default is 60 min for service packs and 5 minutes for regular updates. If you go to All Software Updates and right click one and go to properties click the Maximum Run time tab it will tell you. For a maintenance window I think SCCM requires you leave atleast 4 hours.

We're moving from Altiris 6.9 to SCCM 2012 and wondering what other people are using to tell if a computers on and who's logged into it?

We deploy LanSchool in our labs and have currently been using Altiris to do this but we're moving to SCCM 2012 and I'm trying to figure out the best way to do this. In Altiris we pushdown the lan school student.msi to the local machine and then run this command - cd c:\download\lanschool Msiexec.exe /i student.msi /qn ADVANCED_OPTIONS=1 CHANNEL=1000 We have this one job and just change the Channel for the particular lab we push to, that way the lab manager can control just those machines on that channel. I'm not sure how to do this in SCCM 2012 I can create an application to push and install for one lab, but how for all the other labs, am I going to need to make separate application installs for each lab channel I want to set?? Thanks, bonedog

You guys are hardcore, who cares what browser they use? I for one love Chrome, far better and faster than IE. We have to run IE, Firefox and Chrome due to all the compatibility issues with websites these days. Some work better in IE some Chrome.. Google has a Chrome for business download and you can configure the master preferences file to make it do what you want.

I've found this batch script does a wonderful job at removing profiles...Win7. Just be sure to do it after a fresh restart. - User Profile Cleaning Script for Windows 7 – Version 3.1 « Mike's Thoughts