System Management

SELECT DISTINCT TOP (100) PERCENT DisplayName0, Version0, COUNT(Version0) AS Total
FROM         dbo.v_GS_ADD_REMOVE_PROGRAMS
GROUP BY DisplayName0, Version0
HAVING      (DisplayName0 LIKE ‘%Adobe Reader%’)
ORDER BY Total DESC, DisplayName0

SELECT     TOP (100) PERCENT Manufacturer0 AS Manufacturer, Model0 AS Model, COUNT(Model0) AS Total
FROM         dbo.v_GS_COMPUTER_SYSTEM
GROUP BY Model0, Manufacturer0
ORDER BY Total DESC, Manufacturer, Model

Last month, after restoring the only ConfigMgr site and importing new reports, I saw that none of the reports I’m using have a link to another report.

To be sincere, this was a problem I didn’t know where to start troubleshooting. Thanks to guys from Microsoft’s ConfigMgr forum, who helped me identify the problem and recommended some troubleshooting steps.

So, the problem was due the fact that none of my reports had a link to another report. Don’t know how this happened… Anyway, to resolve this issue, I quickly installed a ConfigMgr site in a virtual machine and using Tom Watson’s advice, created a query that lists all reports with links to other reports. The query is something like this:

SELECT     TOP (100) PERCENT ReportID, Name, Category, DrillThroughReportID
FROM       dbo.v_Report
WHERE      (NOT (DrillThroughReportID IS NULL))
ORDER BY   ReportID

and the result looks like this:

DrillThroughReportID tells the ReportdID of the linked report. Basically, in a default configuration, I know the original ReportID and the linked ReportID.

Now, knowing these info, I’m manually creating the links in my production environment. This is a long process indeed, but I couldn’t find a way to automate this.