SCCM Command line actions
WMIC is a great tool used to manage wmi from the command line, its been around a while and has been part of windows OS’s since XP. Its handy for a heap of things to manage workstations and retrieve data from systems and the bios.
Combine the power of psexec @ computers.txt list at target endpoints that have disabled or corrupted software distribution agents, and you will be on your way to fixing broken agents and deploying required software.
Disable Software-Distribution:
WMIC /namespace:\\root\ccm\policy\machine\requestedconfig path ccm_SoftwareDistributionClientConfig CREATE ComponentName=”Disable SWDist”,Enabled=”false”,LockSettings=”TRUE”,PolicySource=”local”,PolicyVersion=”1.0″ ,SiteSettingsKey
Re-Activate Software-Distribution:
WMIC /namespace:\\root\ccm\policy\machine\requestedconfig path ccm_SoftwareDistributionClientConfig WHERE ComponentName=”Disable SWDist” delete /NOINTERACTIVE
Trigger Hardware Inventory:
WMIC /namespace:\\root\ccm path sms_client CALL TriggerSchedule “{00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000001}” /NOINTERACTIVE
Trigger Software Inventory
:
WMIC /namespace:\\root\ccm path sms_client CALL TriggerSchedule “{00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000002}” /NOINTERACTIVE
Trigger DataDiscoverRecord (DDR) update:
WMIC /namespace:\\root\ccm path sms_client CALL TriggerSchedule “{00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000003}” /NOINTERACTIVE
Force a FULL HW Inventory on next HW-Inv Schedule:
WMIC /namespace:\\root\ccm\invagt path inventoryActionStatus where InventoryActionID=”{00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000001}” DELETE /NOINTERACTIVE
Repair SMS/SCCM Agent on a remote client:
WMIC /node:%MACHINE% /namespace:\\root\ccm path sms_client CALL RepairClient
Repair a list (all clients listed in clients.txt) of remote SMS/SCCM Agents
:
WMIC /node:@clients.txt /namespace:\\root\ccm path sms_client CALL RepairClient