Reminder | System Center 2012 Configuration Manager Toolkit (ConfigMgr Tools 2012) RTM is available !!! [Client Spy, Deployment Monitoring Tool, Policy Spy, Power Viewer Tool (powervwr.exe), Send Schedule Tool (SendSchedule.exe),PowerShell Cmdlets, Securi
Hi all,
Just a big reminder for you say that the System Center 2012 Configuration Manager Toolkit (ConfigMgr Tools 2012) RTM is available for download !!!
What's content in the System Center 2012 Configuration Manager Toolkit (ConfigMgr Tools 2012) RTM ?
- License Agreement
- Documentation
- Client tools
Server tools
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License Tracking PowerShell Cmdlets
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Security Configuration Wizard Template for System Center 2012
Configuration Manager
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Role Based Administration Modeling and Auditing Tool
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Run Metering Summarization Tool
Client Spy:
Client Spy (CliSpy.exe) is a tool for troubleshooting software distribution, inventory, and software metering on computers running System Center Configuration Manager Client.
Most of the information retrieved by the tool pertains to software distribution. The tool displays all current software distribution program run requests, software distribution history, the client cache configuration, cached items, and pending mandatory program runs and lists optional programs that are available.
Inventory information that is displayed includes the latest inventory cycle date, the last report date, software inventory major and minor versions, the file collection, hardware inventory, the IDMIF collection, and discovery data records (DDRs).
Deployment Monitoring Tool :
The Deployment Monitoring Tool is a graphical user interface designed to assist in troubleshooting applications, updates, and baseline deployments on a System Center Configuration Manager 2012 managed client. The tool is read only; it does not change any state on the client and can be safely used to diagnose common deployment scenarios.
Policy Spy:
Policy Spy is a tool for viewing and troubleshooting the policy system on System Center 2012 Configuration Manager Clients .
Power Viewer Tool (powervwr.exe):
The Power Viewer tool will help administrators view the status of power management feature on client side.
Send Schedule Tool (SendSchedule.exe):
The Send Schedule tool is used to trigger a schedule on a Client or trigger the evaluation of a specified DCM Baseline. You can trigger a schedule either locally or remotely.
For example, you can use the tool to trigger an inventory schedule or evaluate a specified DCM Baseline. If a number of SMS Clients have not reported inventory or DCM status recently, you can run the tool to initiate the necessary schedule on each client.
PowerShell Cmdlets:
The PowerShell cmdlet “Get-ConfigMgrAccessLicense” is used to get license usage information for all the servers and clients within scope of System Center 2012 Configuration Manager. The cmdlet returns a list of licensable features and a list of unique users and devices per unique licensable feature. These cmdlets are supported on PowerShell 2.0 and later.
1. Start PowerShell and type $env:programfiles\configmgr2012toolkit\ServerTools
2. Set execution policy to “unrestricted”.
Set-ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted
3. Import Module “ConfigMgrCALTracking.psd1”
Import-Module .\ConfigMgrCalTracking.psd1
Get-ConfigMgrAccessLicense cmdlet is now available for the PowerShell session
Note:
To get help on cmdlet, type: "get-help Get-ConfigMgrAccessLicense -detailed"
Usage:
Syntax
Get-ConfigMgrAccessLicense [-License] [-LicenseName <string>] [-Unique] [-Count] [- ProviderServer <string>] [<CommonParameters>]
Security Configuration Wizard Template (ConfigMgrSCW.xml):
The Security Configuration Wizard (SCW) is an attack-surface reduction tool for the Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 operating system. Security Configuration Wizard determines the minimum functionality required for a server's role or roles, and disables functionality that is not required. The System Center 2012 Configuration Manager Security Configuration Wizard template supports new site system definitions and enables the required services and ports.
The Security Configuration Wizard for System Center 2012 Configuration Manager Template provides support for the following site systems:
• Central Administrator Site
• Primary Site Sever
• Secondary Site Server
• Management Point
• Enrollment proxy Point
• Application Catalog Website Point
• Application Catalog Web Service Point
• Fallback Status Point (FSP)
• State Migration Point (SMP)
• Software Update Point (SUP)
• System Health Validator (SHV)
• Endpoint Protection point
• Out of Band Service Point
• Asset Intelligence Synchronization Point
• Enrollment Point
• Reporting Point
• Manager Client
Role Based Administration Modeling and Auditing Tool (RBAViewer.exe):
The Role Based Administration Modeling tool:
1. Models Role Based Administration (RBA) security roles with specific permissions.
2. Audits what Role Based Administration (RBA) security scope and security role other users have.
Run Metering Summarization (runmetersumm.exe):
The RunMeterSumm tool is used to trigger Metering Summarization immediately on Primary Sites, by default it’s running as scheduled in Site Maintenance tasks, which start after 12:00AM every day. These tasks summarize the data in table MeterData, and write the summary result into the tables FileUsageSummary and MonthlyUsageSummary, so the user can see the summarized result in metering reports. The administrator who can connect to the primary site database can use this tool to run summarization.
This program will run the File Usage Summary and Monthly Usage Summary Software Metering data summarization tasks. It will summarize all existing meter data without the usual 12 hour waiting period. It must be run on the Local SQL server computer for the SMS site. The exit code will be set to 0 if summarization was successful and 1 if there was an error.
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