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Matt Herman

Over 10 years experience in IT with a current focus on SCCM, SQL, and managing client environments. I believe technology should be utilized to make people more effective in whatever they do, and I love working with clients to see that become a reality.

Contributions by Matt Herman

Matt's MSIgnite Recap - Day 3

It's been another long, great day, so this is going to be a quick post focusing on the two exceptional sessions that wrapped up my day. The first was on how and why you shouldn't run as a local ad...

by Matt Herman May 6, 2015

Matt's MS Ignite Recap - Day 2

I've made it through day two of MS Ignite and it's been great. The introvert in me does want to go hide every time I see the crowds between sessions, but the geek in me keeps powering through to soa...

by Matt Herman May 5, 2015

Matt's MS Ignite Recap - Day 1

I have the privilege of spending the week at MS Ignite, so I'd like to highlight a few of the things I've learned and am looking forward to implementing soon. The keynote certainly did not disappo...

by Matt Herman May 4, 2015

Disabling Prestaged Content on SCCM Distribution Points With PowerShell

I recently worked with a customer to deploy a large number of Distribution Points (DPs). We had good timing on the project, because the customer also was deploying new virtualization hosts at the sa...

by Matt Herman Oct 16, 2014

SCCM 2012 PowerShell Cmdlets – Staggering Content Validation Schedule

I recently had a customer with a large number of Distribution Points who wanted to use Content Validation, but did not want to all of them on the same schedule hitting the Primary Site Server at the ...

by Matt Herman Oct 14, 2014

More SQL Queries for Monitoring SCCM 2012 Package Distribution

To keep going on my monitoring packages on Distribution Points (DPs) theme for SCCM 2012, PowerShell Script to Redistribute Failed Packages & SQL Query for DPs with Failed Packages, here are a couple...

by Matt Herman Sep 18, 2014

SCCM 2012 SQL Query for DPs with Package Failures

In my last post, I covered a script I use to redistribute failed packages on Distribution Points (DPs). The script relies on a CSV file to control what DPs have content redistributed, and here is th...

by Matt Herman Sep 15, 2014

Redistribute Failed Content in SCCM 2012

A common task when rolling out new Distribution Points in SCCM is to redistribute failed content. David O’Brien has a great PowerShell script, found here, to redistribute all failed content in your ...

by Matt Herman Sep 9, 2014

SCCM Compmon.log Errors

I was recently doing a health check on a SCCM 2012 R2 Primary Site Server before it was released to production and found the following errors in the Compmon.log. Failed to read the required Operatio...

by Matt Herman Aug 28, 2014

Getting to Know Intune for the SCCM Admin

If you follow SCCM news, you’ve heard the, “Intune is the future!” talk from Microsoft. Before there is any public panic, let me state that SCCM isn’t going anywhere. I don’t speak for Microsoft, b...

by Matt Herman Jul 14, 2014