Hi All,

I previously blogged about customizing the sccm admin console using the right-click actions and blogged about how you can customize the console yourself using the correct guid and a fairly easy to construct xml.

Most of these extensions use some form of vbscript to trigger these actions, but if you are not a great scripter, don’t despair you can achieve quite a lot of these tasks using a single command line. The following 2 links give you a decent overview of what is achievable using wmic:

• http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/2006.09.wmidata.aspx
• http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb742610.aspx

Specifically for ConfigMgr the following command lines are interesting from my point of view:

• Trigger hardware inventory: WMIC /node:Computername /namespace:\\root\ccm path sms_client CALL TriggerSchedule “{00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000001}”
• Trigger software inventory: WMIC /node:Computername /namespace:\\root\ccm path sms_client CALL TriggerSchedule “{00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000002}”
• Trigger data discovery: WMIC /node:Computername /namespace:\\root\ccm path sms_client CALL TriggerSchedule “{00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000003}”
• Trigger machine policy assignment request: WMIC /node:Computername /namespace:\\root\ccm path sms_client CALL TriggerSchedule “{00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000021}”
• Trigger machine policy evaluation: WMIC /node:Computername /namespace:\\root\ccm path sms_client CALL TriggerSchedule “{00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000022}”
• Trigger Refresh default management point: WMIC /node:Computername /namespace:\\root\ccm path sms_client CALL TriggerSchedule “{00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000023}”
• Trigger Refresh location (Ad site, or subnet): WMIC /node:Computername /namespace:\\root\ccm path sms_client CALL TriggerSchedule “{00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000024}”
• Trigger Software metering usage reporting: WMIC /node:Computername /namespace:\\root\ccm path sms_client CALL TriggerSchedule “{00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000031}”
• Trigger sourcelist update cycle: WMIC /node:Computername /namespace:\\root\ccm path sms_client CALL TriggerSchedule “{00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000032}”
• Refresh proxy manamgement point: WMIC /node:Computername /namespace:\\root\ccm path sms_client CALL TriggerSchedule “{00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000037}”
• Trigger cleanup policy: WMIC /node:Computername /namespace:\\root\ccm path sms_client CALL TriggerSchedule “{00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000040}”
• Trigger validate assignments: WMIC /node:Computername /namespace:\\root\ccm path sms_client CALL TriggerSchedule “{00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000042}”
• Trigger certificate maintenance: WMIC /node:Computername /namespace:\\root\ccm path sms_client CALL TriggerSchedule “{00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000051}”
• Trigger branch dp scheduled maintenance: WMIC /node:Computername /namespace:\\root\ccm path sms_client CALL TriggerSchedule “{00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000061}”
• Trigger branchdp provisioning status reporting: WMIC /node:Computername /namespace:\\root\ccm path sms_client CALL TriggerSchedule “{00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000062}”
• Trigger software update deployment: WMIC /node:Computername /namespace:\\root\ccm path sms_client CALL TriggerSchedule “{00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000108}”
• Trigger state message upload: WMIC /node:Computername /namespace:\\root\ccm path sms_client CALL TriggerSchedule “{00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000111}”
• Trigger state message cache cleanup: WMIC /node:Computername /namespace:\\root\ccm path sms_client CALL TriggerSchedule “{00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000112}”
• Trigger sofware update scan: WMIC /node:Computername /namespace:\\root\ccm path sms_client CALL TriggerSchedule “{00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000113}”
• Trigger software update deployment re-eval: WMIC /node:Computername /namespace:\\root\ccm path sms_client CALL TriggerSchedule “{00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000114}”
• Trigger OOBS discovery: WMIC /node:Computername /namespace:\\root\ccm path sms_client CALL TriggerSchedule “{00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000120}”

And some more general ones:

• reboot computer: wmic /node:computername os Where (name like ‘%windows%’) call reboot
• shutdown computer: wmic /node:computername os Where (name like ‘%windows%’) call shutdown

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Enjoy.

“Everyone is an expert at something”

Kim Oppalfens – Sms Expert for lack of any other expertise
Windows Server System MVP – SMS
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