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Analyzing SMS/SCCM log files the easy way

Do you routinely troubleshoot issues with SMS clients? Issues such as WMI not functioning, CCMEXEC not running, Bits issues, etc. The place I always start my troubleshooting is with the client log files (C:\Windows\System32\ccm\logs) as they contain a wealth of information and usually quickly lead you down the road to problem resolution.

Recently I've begun using a tool called Log Parser to quickly parse through SMS client log files on both local and remote locations.  The beauty of using log parser is in it's simplicity, it provides query based access to numerous types of data.  For this scenario the data we care about is in the SMS client log files, which it handles with ease.

Another option for utilizing log parser is to use Visual Log Parser from SerialCoder.net. This is a front-end to Log Parser that makes searching log files even more user friendly.

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