Three Ways to Prevent Insider Risk Within Your SCCM-Managed Environment

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With great advantages come great responsibilities. As the advances in USB devices have made them invaluable to most business users’ workday processes, they have also exposed organizations to three enormous risks:

  • data loss
  • data theft
  • malware propagation

You need only to follow the news to see that USB devices are involved time and time again in today’s highest-profile data breaches, either through the loading of breach-causing malware onto the corporate network, by facilitating the intentional covert removal of data, or simply by enabling data loss through the misplacement of an unencrypted device.

In this white paper, you’ll learn how removable device policy enforcement can prevent these risks while enabling managed use of these necessary productivity tools—seamlessly within your Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager-managed environment. You’ll find that the real key to secure use of all portable devices is striking the right balance between the productivity they offer and the risks they pose.

Click here to download the white paper (Windows IT Pro registration required)

SCCM Query for Newly Discovered (Server) Systems

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The issue was raised recently that we needed a means of identifying all new servers introduced to the environment so that we can add them to the appropriate patching collections within SCCM. With the help of Donnie Taylor, I was able to get the following query to work:

select SMS_R_SYSTEM.ResourceID,SMS_R_SYSTEM.ResourceType,SMS_R_SYSTEM.Name,SMS_R_SYSTEM.SMSUniqueIdentifier,SMS_R_SYSTEM.ResourceDomainORWorkgroup,SMS_R_SYSTEM.Client from SMS_R_System inner join SMS_G_System_SYSTEM on SMS_G_System_SYSTEM.ResourceId = SMS_R_System.ResourceId where DATEDIFF(dd, SMS_G_System_SYSTEM.TimeStamp,GetDate()) < 30

Now there is no logic in the code to select only server-based operating systems, but I accomplished this by limiting this collection results to the “Windows Server Systems” collection.

January System Center Webcasts

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TechNet Webcast: Optimizing Desktop Management with System Center Configuration Manager and Microsoft SoftGrid Application Virtualization (Level 300)
Tuesday, January 15, 2008 – 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM Pacific Time
Jeff Wettlaufer, Senior Technical Product Manager, Microsoft Corporation
Chad Jones, Group Product Manager, Microsoft Corporation
http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032358169&Culture=en-US

IT Manager Webcast: Visualize Data with System Center Operations Manager, System Center Configuration Manager Add-Ins for Visio 2007 (Level 100)
Tuesday, January 29, 2008 – 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Pacific Time
Kapil Tandon, Senior Product Manager, Microsoft Corporation
http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032362930&Culture=en-US

Thanks to Eileen Brown for keeping me up on these.

NEWS: PS’SOFT ANNOUNCES ASSET AND SERVICE MANAGEMENT SUITE

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PS’SOFT ANNOUNCES ASSET AND SERVICE MANAGEMENT SUITE: “PS’Soft, a global provider of IT asset and service management solutions, today announced the general availability of its Asset and Service Management Suite which integrates the rich asset inventory data collected by Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007. PS’Soft Asset Management solution integrates with Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 to deliver rich end-to-end software license management capabilities. Integration with Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 enables PS’Soft to address the needs of a vast user base of Microsoft System Center customers. “

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