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Answered SCCM R2 SP1 -There are no built-in computer collections for Windows Vista and Windows 2008?

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      Tuesday, March 31, 2009 7:58 PM
       
       
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      I have noticed that SCCM R2 does not have built-in computer collections for Windows Vista and Windows 2008?

      Is that correct? How can this be enabled? If I do discovery where are the Windows 2008 server and Windows Vista computers are going to be located?

      Thanks.
      llara
       

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    • Tuesday, March 31, 2009 8:55 PM
       
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      You are correct, they aren't there out of the box. Collections are easy to build though, just copy the query from XP or Server 2003 collection and modify it. Creating collections and queries are essential parts of ConfigMgr so learning how to do this early on can only help. Follow the steps below to do this:

      1. Open the properties for the XP collection.
      2. Go to the Membership Rules tab, highlight the "All Windows XP Systems" rule and click the edit button (looks like a little hand pointing to a card).
      3. Click Edit Query Statement
      4. Click Show Query Language
      5. Copy the query to the clipboard
      6. Click Cancel three times
      7. Create a new collection, name it something like All Windows Vista Systems
      8. On the Membership Rules page of the wizard, click the new query rule button (looks like a yellow cylinder)
      9. Give the Query a name, something like "All Windows Vista Systems"
      10. Click Edit Query Statement
      11. Click Show Query Language
      12. Paste the query in and change 5.1 in the last line to 6.0
      13. Click OK twice and finish the Wizard
      14. Right click the new colection and select update collection membership

      For Server 2008, do the same thing by copying the query for Server 2003 and change 5.2 to 6.0 in the query.

      Without these collections, Vista and 2008 systems will still show up in some of the default collections. Vista systems will show up in the All Systems collection as well as All Windows Workstation or Proessional Systems and 2008 systems will show up in All Systems and All Windows Server Systems.

      Collections are not like OUs, they are more like groups in AD. Systems/Resources are not restricted to a single collection. Additionally, the membership of collections is based upon queries on the database. Collections are not the database itself.
      Jason | http://myitforum.com/cs2/blogs/jsandys