Extending Hardware Inventory for System Center Configuration Manager
Hello everyone, Jonathan Warnken here, and I am a Premier Field Engineer (PFE) for Microsoft. I primarily support Configuration Manager and I have been getting a lot of questions recently on how to collect custom information and include it in the device inventory within Configuration Manager. I wanted to share one way to accomplish this that demonstrates some of the great ways to extend the built-in features. For this post, I am going to show how to capture the information about local machine certificates. I do want to take a moment to thank MVP Sherry Kissinger for this post with the base powershell script used to collect the certificate information.Using the Fully Qualified Domain Name for Remote Control in System Center Configuration Manager
Hello everyone, Jonathan Warnken here. I am a Premiere Field Engineer (PFE) for Microsoft. I primarily support Configuration Manager and today I want to talk about creating a custom console extension to allow the use of a Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN) when starting a remote-control session. If you work in a multi domain environment or need to support direct access clients you will quickly find that one of the challenges with Configuration Manager is that when it starts a remote control session it defaults to the Client name which generally matches the Net Bios name of the system. I was recently challenged by a customer wanting to simplify the management of clients connected via direct access. They had correctly configured the environment to support managing out to these devices and could complete all connected except starting remote control via the console. Remote control would work but the initial connection via the net bios name would fail and the user would need to enter the FQDN to allow the connection to complete successfully.
