Last week I enable a few attributes within the Computer System Class. Today I am looking at the ThermalState mostly because I want to see what my new server has to say. SELECT Case GS.ThermalState0 when 1 then ‘Other’ when 2 then ‘Unknown’ when 3 then ‘Safe’ when […]
Month: March 2007
Just like the Computer System class I enable all attributes of this class. These are the attributes that I enabled. BiosCharacteristics Caption CodeSet CurrentLanguage IdentificationCode InstallableLanguages InstallDate LanguageEdition ListOfLanguages OtherTargetOS PrimaryBIOS SMBIOSMajorVersion SMBIOSMinorVersion SMBIOSPresent Status With the information included in the article http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa394077.aspx, we should get some interesting information from our systems.
On Monday there we a lot of people who did not get a button to the MIF party! On Tuesday MS release more buttons and Ron and I came up with the idea to have people sign up on a waiting list by picking number and signing up against that number and we use a […]
On Monday night I was helping out at the SMS Expert booth and I got to witness the on slot of people trying to get buttons to the myITForum party. The funny part about this was to see the reaction of the other vendors trying to figure out why there was a mad rush to […]
This query will show you the state in which each PC Booted. The normal options are: “Normal boot”“Fail-safe boot”“Fail-safe with network boot” Based on the Win32_computer_system class: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa394102.aspx SELECT v_GS_COMPUTER_SYSTEM.Name0 AS ‘PC Name’, v_GS_COMPUTER_SYSTEM.UserName0 AS ‘User ID’, v_GS_COMPUTER_SYSTEM.BootupState0 AS ‘Boot State’ FROM v_GS_COMPUTER_SYSTEM v_GS_COMPUTER_SYSTEM ORDER BY v_GS_COMPUTER_SYSTEM.Name0
Last week I enable a few attributes within the Computer System Class. Going along the same theme as last few days Lets look at the Chassis Bootup State. SELECT Case GS.ChassisBootupState0 when 1 then ‘Other’ when 2 then ‘Unknown’ when 3 then ‘Safes’ when 4 then ‘Warning’ […]
On Sunday Ed had his red purse and he showed me the contents of his purse. – Cigar – Cigar cutter – Lighter – Room key
Last week I enable a few attributes within the Computer System Class. Over the past several months there has been a lot of talk about “Wake on Lan”. This query will show how every PCs was booted at it last hardware inventory. SELECT Case GS.WakeUpType0 when 0 then ‘Reserved’ […]
This query will show you which PCs are set to automatically reboot. Based on the Win32_computer_system class: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa394102.aspx SELECT v_GS_COMPUTER_SYSTEM.Name0 AS ‘PC Name’, v_GS_COMPUTER_SYSTEM.UserName0 AS ‘User ID’, Case v_GS_COMPUTER_SYSTEM.AutomaticResetBootOption0 When 1 then ‘True’ When 0 then ‘False’ Else ‘Unknown’ end AS ‘Auto Reboot’ FROM v_GS_COMPUTER_SYSTEM v_GS_COMPUTER_SYSTEM ORDER BY […]
In one of my previous blogs, I enable a few attributes within the Computer System Class. Lets look at the Admin Password Status. AdminPasswordStatus Data type: uint16Access type: Read-only System hardware security settings for administrator password status. Value Meaning 10×1 Disabled 20×2 Enabled 30×3 Not Implemented 40×4 Unknown SELECT Case […]