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Config Manager Reporting & The Ultimate Computer Inventory Report

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Have you ever wanted to make your own reports in Config Manager but just not had the time to dive in? Me too, but finally I forced myself to sit down and dive in. I'm working on a project right now where we are doing an available application deployment by device, but we want to be able to nag our users by email if they haven't done it yet. So how do you turn a device into an email address? I decided to make a custom report that shows me a list of all machines in a collection and then gives me some key info, but most importantly it gives me the top console user and their email address. Our user discovery brings in the "mail" attribute for users so this information is already stored in our Config Manager database. If you don't want to build it on your own, skip to my GitHub and download the RDL. https://github.com/rudybankson/MECM-The-Ultimate-Computer-Inventory-Report Part 1:  The SQL Foundation The first step to building your own reports is to open up SQL Server M