System Center 2012 Configuration Manager Unleashed

In This Chapter

• Introducing the Queries Node

• Creating Queries

• ConfigMgr Query Builder

• Criterion Types, Operators, and Values

• Writing Advanced Queries

• Relationships, Operations, and Joins

• Using Query Results

• Status Message Queries

At this point in the book, your System Center 2012 Configuration Manager (ConfigMgr) infrastructure should be collecting considerable amounts of data from your ConfigMgr clients. Queries were mentioned briefly in Chapter 3, “Looking Inside Configuration Manager,” as a means to retrieve information from the ConfigMgr database. You could use this information in a variety of ways, from something as simple as creating an ad-hoc list of clients with a specific operating system, to areas as complex as listing ...