Running Script in SCCM

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Running Script in SCCM

Ricardo Gonçalves 0

Hello, I am working with SCCM for the first time, and I've been tasked to run a powershell a script to gather information from machines across my company. I followed this tutorial (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/mem/configmgr/apps/deploy-use/create-deploy-scripts) and used one of the scripts suggested ("Write-Output (Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_operatingSystem).Caption") to make sure everything was working before executing the main script. However, after setting it up and approving it (in the Software Library), I tried to run the script in one of the device collections and it didn't run in any of hte devices (The SCCM clients are all Windows Servers). I have checked the client logs, but I didn't find any meaningful information. Since I'm not the responsible for SCCM here, I would like to get this sorted without messing around with too many configurations. Thank you in advance User's image

Sherry Kissinger 5,526 Reputation points

2024-02-08T23:42:41.17+00:00

In your summary, it says right at the top: Script completed on 0 of 11 clients. Are the devices you targeted active, online, CM Clients? If they are "devices that just so happen to be listed in the CM Console, because CM discovered they existed in Active Directory... but the CM client is NOT installed on them, or those devices are no longer online" -- any script you attempt to interactively run on them via the scripts node simply has no way to communicate with those devices. When you say "tasked to run a powershell a script to gather information from machines across my company"--WHAT exactly is that powershell script? if it is things like "make, model, Operating system..." that kind of thing-- IF the device(s) are actual CM clients--they already report that information into the database. There is no reason at all to 'run a script'. The info already exists. Check out the built-in reports.
Ricardo Gonçalves 0 Reputation points

2024-02-09T13:27:15.62+00:00

Thank you for your answer. I will try to make my question more clear. I need to gather some information from the machines that I can only do using a powershell script (it is not the version of the OS). The machines are up and running and I can execute and confirm the execution of configuration baselines. All this machines have CM installed.

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Sherry Kissinger 5,526 Reputation points

2024-02-08T23:42:41.17+00:00

In your summary, it says right at the top: Script completed on 0 of 11 clients. Are the devices you targeted active, online, CM Clients? If they are "devices that just so happen to be listed in the CM Console, because CM discovered they existed in Active Directory... but the CM client is NOT installed on them, or those devices are no longer online" -- any script you attempt to interactively run on them via the scripts node simply has no way to communicate with those devices. When you say "tasked to run a powershell a script to gather information from machines across my company"--WHAT exactly is that powershell script? if it is things like "make, model, Operating system..." that kind of thing-- IF the device(s) are actual CM clients--they already report that information into the database. There is no reason at all to 'run a script'. The info already exists. Check out the built-in reports.
Ricardo Gonçalves 0 Reputation points

2024-02-09T13:27:15.62+00:00

Thank you for your answer. I will try to make my question more clear. I need to gather some information from the machines that I can only do using a powershell script (it is not the version of the OS). The machines are up and running and I can execute and confirm the execution of configuration baselines. All this machines have CM installed.

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Garth Jones 1,666 MVP

So OS caption is already collect as part of Hardware inventory and there are even built-in report for OS details. Have you looked at them?

Ricardo Gonçalves 0 Reputation points

2024-02-08T17:37:27.74+00:00

Thank you for your answer. However, this is just a simple script that I used to test. The script that I want to execute returns values that are not in the hardware inventory (Like the edition of some applications).
Garth Jones 1,666 Reputation points MVP

2024-02-09T13:25:20.4766667+00:00

When you check the logs can you see the policy arriving? Did you test this script on you device vs ConfigMgr?
Ricardo Gonçalves 0 Reputation points

2024-02-13T10:21:33.4733333+00:00

Thank you, after checking the logs, I can't see the policy arriving. I tested the script on my device first.

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XinGuo-MSFT 22,231

Hi,

I can run your scripts successfully. How did the Run details show on your end?

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Ricardo Gonçalves 0 Reputation points

2024-02-13T10:19:30.0966667+00:00

Hello, thank you for your answer. The run details return an empty page.

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