Raspberry Pi Kitchen Wall Display Screen

Ok, so not really System Center related but I had to share this little project! My wife works as cabin crew for a UK airline so has crazy shift patterns which are hard to keep track of, I wanted to make a display screen for the kitchen wall which contained our shared calendars plus some other useful...

Dynamic SCCM report for installed software, altered by Orchestrator

Although this report might not be useful to everyone, the method of altering the data within the report might be of use.  The report essentially provides a list of all systems that have certain software installed, and presents the CPU and Operating System information for each.  The software...

Check the Status of ConfigMgr MP Replica's with Orchestrator

I recently identified the need to receive an alert when one of the SCCM Management Point SQL replicas became un-healthy. (e.g. replication with subscriber fails). A simple SQL query can be run on the CMDistribution database to bring back the status of the Replication Agents. Using this information...

Export Multiple PFX Certificates using Orchestrator

Following on from my last post, I had to throw this runbook together in order to create a batch of PFX files ready for manual SCCM client installations on *nix systems. The certificate requests needed to be targeted at a CA in the relevant Active Directory forest. (PreProd, Production, or ST). Overview The...

Using Orchestrator to install a ConfigMgr Linux Client with PKI Certificate

My first blog post will be an extension of a great post by Laurie Rhodes who constructed an Orchestrator runbook to install the Linux SCCM client. HERE I won't go into much detail about all of the steps in the runbook, but I will detail some of the bits I've added. My plan is to create some other...