Last week I was busy with a deployment and this week the question came up “does every server have a SCCM client installed”. My first reaction was “yes” but after a close look at our SCCM sites I wasn’t sure. The problem I had was that there are multiple AD domains linked to multiple SCCM sites, so if one site showed ‘Client=No’ that didn’t mean the server didn’t have a client. It only meant that the server didn’t have a client in that particular site. So only looking at SCCM wouldn’t give me the answer.

What if I would use AD as a source for my search? Dump every computer object into a list and run through that list to obtain information about the client. The challenge with that approach was that AD contains computer objects that are not really computer objects… For instance, if you build a Failover Cluster the cluster itself creates a computer object and also the cluster resources use computer objects. So using AD as a starting point was of the table.

Another possible source was vCenter. As vCenter contains all the (virtual) servers I could use that as a source. A small problem was that in the DTA (Development, Test, and Acceptance) domains a lot of servers were turned off. So I had to use a filter to get the correct list of servers. And I had to filter on the OS of the VM…

The script I finally put together looked like this:

[code language=”powershell”]
<#
.SYNOPSIS
Get SCCM client information from WMI(based on vSphere VM’s)
.DESCRIPTION
Use this script if you need to retrieve SCCM client information
.PARAMETER vCenterServer
Name of the vCenter Server
.EXAMPLE
.\Get-CMClientInfo.ps1 -vCenterServer ‘vcserver.domain.local’
Retrieve SCCM client info from all VM’s under the vCenter Server vcserver.domain.local
.NOTES
Script name: Get-CMClientInfo.ps1
Author: Jeroen Buren
DateCreated: 06-06-2017
#>

[CmdletBinding(SupportsShouldProcess=$true)]

param(
[parameter(Mandatory=$true,HelpMessage="Name of the vCenter Server")]
[ValidateScript({Test-Connection -ComputerName $_ -Count 1 -Quiet})]
[string]$vCenterServer
)

#———————————————————-
# STATIC VARIABLES
#———————————————————-
$ProgressCount = 0
$Results = @()

#———————————————————-
# FUNCTIONS
#———————————————————-

function Get-VMFolderPath {
Begin {}
Process {
foreach ($vm in $Input) {
$DataCenter = $vm | Get-Datacenter
$DataCenterName = $DataCenter.Name
$VMname = $vm.Name
$VMParentName = $vm.Folder
if ($VMParentName.Name -eq "vm") {
$FolderStructure = "{0}\{1}" -f $DataCenterName, $VMname
$FolderStructure
Continue
}
else {
$FolderStructure = "{0}\{1}" -f $VMParentName.Name, $VMname
$VMParentID = Get-Folder -Id $VMParentName.ParentId
do {
$ParentFolderName = $VMParentID.Name
if ($ParentFolderName -eq "vm") {
$FolderStructure = "$DataCenterName\$FolderStructure"
$FolderStructure
break
}
$FolderStructure = "$ParentFolderName\$FolderStructure"
$VMParentID = Get-Folder -Id $VMParentID.ParentId
}
until ($VMParentName.ParentId -eq $DataCenter.Id)
}
}
}
End {}
}

#———————————————————-
# SCRIPTBODY
#———————————————————-

# Connect to vCenter Server
Connect-VIServer -Server $vCenterServer | Out-Null

# Select the VMs..
$VMs = Get-VM | Where {($_.PowerState -eq ‘PoweredOn’) -and ($_.Guest -match ‘Microsoft Windows Server’)} | Sort-Object -Property Name
# ..and count them
$ComputerCount = $VMs.Count

Foreach ($VM in $VMs) {
$ProgressCount++
$Computer = $VM.Name
$Folder = $VM | Get-VMFolderPath
Write-Progress -Activity "Getting SCCM client information…" -Id 1 -Status "$($ProgressCount) / $($ComputerCount)" -CurrentOperation "$Computer" -PercentComplete (($ProgressCount / $ComputerCount) * 100)
#If (Test-Connection -ComputerName $Computer -Count 1 -Quiet) {
Try {
$ClientVersion = $(Get-WMIObject -Query "SELECT ClientVersion FROM SMS_Client" -Namespace "root/ccm" -Computername $Computer -ErrorAction Stop | Select ClientVersion).ClientVersion
$SiteCode = $($([WMIClass]"\\$Computer\root\ccm:SMS_Client").GetAssignedSite() | Select sSiteCode).sSiteCode
$Object = [pscustomobject]@{
Computername = $Computer
Folder = $Folder
SiteCode = $SiteCode
ClientVersion = $ClientVersion
}
$Results += $Object
}
Catch {
$Object = [pscustomobject]@{
Computername = $Computer
Folder = $Folder
SiteCode = "Unknown"
ClientVersion = "Unknown"
}
$Results += $Object
}
#}
}

$Results #| Export-Csv -Path <path to CSV file> -NoTypeInformation

# Disconnect from the vCenter Server
Disconnect-VIServer -Server $vCenterServer -Confirm:$false[/code]