System Center Reporting Zero to Hero 15 minutes x 4 MMS Minnesota 2014 Samuel Erskine (Sam) Dieter Gasser (Didi) IT Driving Fellow Principal Consultant (

Zero to Hero Poll MMS Minnesota 2014 Use of SC ? Reporting experience? How Do you like your steak? Any vegetarians?

What’s in it for you? MMS Minnesota 2014 Why should I care about reporting? Technical and Business Reporting Scenarios System Center Reporting Overview Recommended Practices Q&A plus Freestyling Walk through demos (Get to hero)

Why care about reporting? MMS Minnesota 2014 Show Value Support a business case Audit and compliance Budget planning and forecasting Visibility Process optimization Proactive maintenance Stakeholder awareness Reduce Migration Cost Discovery and analysis costs Operational efficiency Clean environment Personal Value Portable knowledge More money Promotion

Where are we? MMS Minnesota 2014 Why should I care about reporting? Technical and Business Reporting Scenarios System Center Reporting Overview Recommended Practices Q&A plus Freestyling Walk through demos (Get to hero)

Technical and Business Reporting Scenarios MMS Minnesota 2014 Provide a count of computers out of warranty to justify hardware refresh. Inventory report to support operating system upgrades Automation Return on Investment (ROI) How much storage should we plan to invest in next year’s budget based on historic data?

Where are we? MMS Minnesota 2014 Why should I care about reporting? Technical and Business Reporting Scenarios System Center Reporting Overview Recommended Practices Q&A plus Freestyling Walk through demos (Get to hero)

System Center Reporting Overview MMS Minnesota 2014 “There is no substitute for knowledge”  Schema of SC data sources  T-SQL scripting  Working with Report Authoring Tools  Report Builder  SQL Server Data Tools (Visual Studio)  PowerBI, PowerPivot, PowerView  Microsoft Excel  3 rd Party Tools

System Center Reporting Overview MMS Minnesota 2014

System Center Reporting Overview MMS Minnesota 2014 Useful links for SC data source schemas:  CM12: R2-SQL-5fefdd3bhttps://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/SCCM-Configmgr R2-SQL-5fefdd3b  SCOM: us/library/gg aspxhttp://technet.microsoft.com/en- us/library/gg aspx  SCSM: 4/service-manager-data-warehouse-schema-now-available.aspx 4/service-manager-data-warehouse-schema-now-available.aspx Useful links for SC data source schemas:  CM12: R2-SQL-5fefdd3bhttps://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/SCCM-Configmgr R2-SQL-5fefdd3b  SCOM: us/library/gg aspxhttp://technet.microsoft.com/en- us/library/gg aspx  SCSM: 4/service-manager-data-warehouse-schema-now-available.aspx 4/service-manager-data-warehouse-schema-now-available.aspx

Where are we? MMS Minnesota 2014 Why should I care about reporting? Technical and Business Reporting Scenarios System Center Reporting Overview Recommended Practices Q&A plus Freestyling Walk through demos (Get to hero)

Demo (Zero to 10% Hero) MMS Minnesota 2014 List of Operating System with number of computers

Demo (10% to 50% Hero) MMS Minnesota 2014 Drill through to list of computers running a particular OS

Demo (50% to 80% Hero) MMS Minnesota 2014 Chart showing duration and time worked on Software Requests

Demo (Full Hero) MMS Minnesota 2014 Chart showing cost savings over time after automation

Where are we? MMS Minnesota 2014 Why should I care about reporting? Technical and Business Reporting Scenarios System Center Reporting Overview Recommended Practices Q&A plus Freestyling Walk through demos (Get to hero)

Recommended Practices MMS Minnesota 2014

Recommended Practices MMS Minnesota 2014  Do not change the schema of SC databases  Make use of report authoring tool features (e.g. sorting, grouping, aggregating)  Write efficient SQL queries  Monitor and predict load caused by report consumer  Configure roles and permissions appropriately

Coming Soon!!! tion-and-cloud/microsoft-system- center-reporting-cookbook

What you take away – Thank you MMS Minnesota 2014 Why should I care about reporting? Technical and Business Reporting Scenarios System Center Reporting Overview Recommended Practices Q&A plus Freestyling Walk through demos (Get to hero)

Gifts! MMS Minnesota 2014

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