Brian S. Tucker

As many of you know, SCCM 2007 have reporting features for Asset Intelligence and also for CAL license information. Interesting enough, it's not enough to just run the reports and have the information shown. There are a few steps you have to accomplish before you can use Asset Intelligence (AI) and use the CAL reports. Call me naive, but in my reading of the whitepapers, I missed how to enable and configure this to be enabled.

1. To enable Asset Intelligence, you need to open the SMS_DEF.MOF file. Scroll to the bottom and work your way up and enable the 11 Asset Intelligence classes. By default they are set to False, change them to True. Save the .mof file and it will replicate to the other servers in the hierarchy after some time. You will now see new classes in Resource Explorer. Also, you will also then be able to run the Asset intelligence reports and get information. Without editing the .mof file, you cannot benefit for ANY of the reports on AI.

2. In SCCM, there is a new .mof file called Configuration.mof in the same folder as the sms_def.mof file. This .mof file controls several registry keys and also native mode settings. However, it also controls CAL inventory for clients. This can also be seen in the reports for Client Access License reports. By default, at the bottom of the .mof file, you will see a section called Instance of CCM_CALTRACKING. By default this is set to zero (0). You want to change it to 3. There is also a Set CALCollectionFrequency which by default is 7 days. You can leave that alone if you want to, but in a lab or in an instance where you want CAL reports to show up more often, you can change the number 7 to any other number of days, such as 2 if you like. Once again, once you save this file, it will replicate to your other site servers and you can now report on CAL's used by clients.

Expect to see this displayed in the SCCM Level 5 guide in the near future.

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