If you've heard me preach about client health scripts for GPOs and client installs before, I thought I'd point you to what I think is currently the best version of that script out there today.  It was written by my fellow MVP, Jason Sandys: http://blogs.catapultsystems.com/jsandys/archive/2010/10/19/configmgr-client-startup-script.aspx

If you've heard Sherry Kissinger preach about inventory, her friend and fellow MVP Mark Cohrane has a nice tool to help you add the mof edits to get that data back: RegKeytoMof.

Finally, Richard Zander's Client Center is another tool you might have seen at our meetings. This tool is great for troubleshooting one client at a time - when you're verifying patch status or figuring out why something didn't install.

I just finished the 4-day long 50414 PowerShell v2 for Administrators session at Benchmark Learning Center in Bloomington and it was great.

Unlike so many MS classes where you get a fat book that has so little content that you just toss it out when the class is over, this one was lean and mean.  Evidently our own MNSCUG member, Lou Patrick wrote the session.  From what I heard, it’s undergone a few revisions (like from 3 days to 4).  What’s great about it starts with the title of the course.  It’s not tailored to programmers, developers, etc., but rather to admins who would just like to automate some tasks where the GUI just can’t compete.

These articles are in the top 20 viewed articles for SCCM for the month of April.

• Prerequisites for Installing Configuration Manager http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb694113.aspx
• About Configuration Manager Client Installation Properties http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb680980.aspx
• Planning for PXE Initiated Operating System Deployments http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb680753.aspx
• Operating System Deployment in Configuration Manager http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb632767.aspx
• Step-By-Step Example Deployment of the PKI Certificates Required for Configuration Manager Native Mode: Windows Server 2008 Certification Authority http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc872789.aspx

A new blog went out today on the support site:  http://blogs.technet.com/b/configurationmgr/archive/2010/06/16/documentation-topics-every-configuration-manager-admin-should-know.aspx

Before I blow my demo box away, I figured it'd be a good time to make a video to show how I carved out permissions in CM so that I didn't need to bring up another site for the server team for security reasons. This method lets everyone share the same central site. Of course, all this is made easier in the next version via RBAC, but for now, this is what we have.

For that inheritance script I mention, you can download it here.

By the way, I'm hoping to show the pre-beta built of v.Next in our next user group meeting!