How To: List all servers used by your ConfigMgr Infrastructure

February 16, 2012 Leave a comment

Here’s a quick PowerShell script to show all servers used in your ConfigMgr Hierarchy:

$myServers  = get-wmiobject  SMS_SystemResourceList `
   -namespace root\sms\site_LAB –computer LABServer
$myServers | select-object servername -unique `
   | sort Servername | out-gridview

You can alter that script a little to show all Roles for each server:

$myServers  = get-wmiobject  SMS_SystemResourceList `
    -namespace root\sms\site_LAB –computer LABServer
$myServers | select-object servername, RoleName  `
    | sort Servername | out-gridview

To run these in your environment, launch in PowerShell with proper rights to query your hierarchy, and replace “LAB” with your Central site ConfigMgr Site Code, and replace LABServer with your Central site server name.

Happy Scripting,

Greg

ramseyg@hotmail.com

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Fun with WMIC

February 16, 2012 Leave a comment

(When preparing to write this brief post, I see that my MVP colleague Sherry Kissinger also has a post on WMIC and Windows Installer. Check it out – it’s a good read too.) 

Here are a couple more examples to add to your tool belt, especially when working with teammates in remote offices, and you need information from WinPE. My perfect example is that a tech reports in that OSD isn’t working, the symptom is that no fixed disks appear to be present on the system. This error usually means that you don’t have a mass storage driver in WinPE for the hardware. Of course, this error can also mean that you have a hard disk error, or that it’s not connected to your system.

Back to task, here are two example command lines for querying win32_pnpentity to display all Plug-and-Play information for a system.

Wmic /namespace:\\ROOT\cimv2 path win32_pnpentity get /format:hform >”c:\temp\data.htm”

Wmic /namespace:\\ROOT\cimv2 path win32_pnpentity get /format:csv >”c:\temp\test.csv”

The first example writes the information to a .htm file, and the second writes the information to a .csv file.

Once you have the PNP IDs, you can begin your journey to find the appropriate mass storage drivers.

More info: Creating and editing formats in WMIC.

Greg

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