RE: Find website set to default within a SMS Client

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Nothin' out of HKCU.

To answer your question, no, that is not an example of user specific info.
That information belongs to the computer-- "who is in the local
Administrators group on computer xyz" -- that's computer information.

I suppose technically we could go into the territory of noidmif files,
because you aren't modifying the mof. But I've turned off my environment
from collecting noidmif files; it's a mess to keep track of and clean up when
you no longer need/want them.

Instead of my telling you what's possible (lot's of strange things are, but
I'm not going to try to enumerate them). What is it you want--and I can tell
you why it might be impossible.
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"Jaison Jose" wrote:

Hello Sherry,

Thanks a lot for the detailed explanation.

Just a question:

We can run reports from SMS 2003 to find out "who is a local administrator"
on a client - Is this as example for user specific info that SMS collects or?

If yes, what else can be done without manipulating MOF?

Thanks a lot
JJ



"Sherry Kissinger [MVP-SMS]" wrote:

Other than the last logged in user / top console user (which comes from
security logins into your Eventlog, so it's not a per-user attribute,
either); nothin'

Don't despair, though... let me point you to http://www.sccmexpert.com, The
MOF, MOF Tools. Click on "Get the Scripts" gear (you may have to register in
order to download). In there are several scripts. The one I use in
production is "datashift - complete". That's an example of extending
hardware inventory by running that script as an SW advertisement, using user
credentials only when a user is logged in. I think I have it recurring every
week. What the script does is figure out mapped network drives, mapped
network printers, shares, and local admins, and essentially copy that data
into WMI. Then by adding specific MOF edits to your SMS_DEF.mof file on the
server, you'll get a fairly accurate inventory of that per-user information.

I've used that model for other things I've been asked to gather from the
HKCU keys in our environment, some VOIP phone settings, or some Office
per-user keys they wanted to know stuff about.

fyi; for local admins I'd change to this, and set the mof snippet needed for
datashift.mof to either be FALSE or not in sms_def.mof at all.
http://myitforum.com/cs2/blogs/skissinger/archive/2008/06/08/report-on-local-administrators-group-membership-updated.aspx

Perhaps that's too much info right now, though (sorry, I get verbose
possibly too soon, I'll quiet down now.)
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"Jaison Jose" wrote:

Hello Sherry,

Sorry to ask this question!!! :(

what kind of user informations SMS 2003 has capability to collect?

Means what and all user information is collected by default by hardware
inventory and software inventory?

And...what and all can be collected by SMS 2003?

Many thanks for your support.

JJ

"Jaison Jose" wrote:

Thank you Sherry!!!!

"Sherry Kissinger [MVP-SMS]" wrote:

You can get last logged on username from v_r_system; or if you are
SP3/ConfigMgr, TopConsoleUser; or if you've implemented SLAT in sms2003,
highest ranked user from that table.

But to get a per-user setting is difficult (not that I haven't done it, it's
just mildly annoying). Hardware Inventory runs by necessity using machine
credentials, which means it doesn't look at the current user regkeys, which
is where the default home page for a user lives. When I'm requested to pull
in current user keys, I end up having to write a script to run in user
context as an SMS Advert, to essentially copy whatever it is I want from HKCU
to HKLM or WMI, and then extend the HW Inventory MOF to pull that created
data from HKLM or WMI. It's not 100% accurate because of shared computers,
but it's usually close enough.

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"Jaison Jose" wrote:

Hello All,

Is there any way to get a report through SMS with below details:

SMS Version: SMS 2003 with SP3
Client Platform: Vista SP1

vista machine Name/userID in form of a report on what default home page set
to.

Any help will be highly appretiated.

Many Thanks in advance,
JJ
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