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Create Machine variables in Configuration Manager 2012

I scripted quite a lot these last few days/weeks and needed to use, as a good scripter like me would (*g*), lots of variables.

Variables in Configuration Manager can come real handy when executing Task Sequences.

You can set variables on collections and machines.

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Reading EdgeSight Reports
Published by Nicholas Dille on 06/22/2011 | 1 Comments | 2,333 Views

In my series about custom reports for EdgeSight, you have learned about the database schema and the overall layout of a query against it as well as how the query is embedded in a report that can be displayed through the EdgeSight user interface. In all articles I have mentioned several times that reports are expressed in RDL – the report definition language which is based on the Extensible Markus Language (XML). In this posting, I’d like to take a closer look at a RDL file and provide some insight how a report is structured and what those tags mean.

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Building Custom EdgeSight Reports Part 1 - Kick Off

For quite a while now, Citrix is offering EdgeSight for performance analysis and historical reporting. It started off for endpoints and XenApp (still called Presentation Server at that time) and now includes virtual desktops as well. EdgeSight is offering a huge number of reports seemingly covering all possible aspects of performance analysis.

But in my eyes, the agents are collecting a lot more pieces of information than the reports are able to display. This article is the first in a series describing the EdgeSight database schema, what is necessary for a valid query and how it is built into a report.

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