ConfigMgr: remove Silverlight silently with a package/program

I watched a video on how to remove Silverlight, but I figure it may be helpful to post this with just the command line (no source necessary):

wmic product where caption='Microsoft Silverlight' call uninstall

ConfigMgr: Configuration Item to search for user names in ODBC data sources (i.e., searching for registry values that contain a certain string) using PowerShell

I received a request to find workstations that were using certain user names in ODBC data sources.  To find them, I created a configuration baseline with the following script as the compliance setting.  (I didn’t write the script – when I explained to the requester how it could be done, he was kind enough to write it for me.)

$user_id_list = @("STARSQLX", "CAINDBS2", "PTSBSTAR")
$resulted_ds_list = @()
$odbc_ds_list = Get-ChildItem -Path Registry::HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ODBC\ODBC.INI\ -Name
$key_path = "Registry::HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ODBC\ODBC.INI\"
for($i=0; $i -lt $odbc_ds_list.Length; $i++)
{
  if($odbc_ds_list[$i] -ne "ODBC Data Sources")
  {
    $path = $key_path + $odbc_ds_list[$i]
    $uid = (Get-ItemProperty -Path $path -Name "UID").UID
    for($j=0; $j -lt $user_id_list.Length; $j++)
    {
        if ($uid -eq $user_id_list[$j])
        {
           $resulted_ds_list += $odbc_ds_list[$i]
        }
    }
  }
}
#Write-Host $resulted_ds_list
if ($resulted_ds_list.count -eq 0) {write-host $false} else {write-host $true}

Delete Windows.old from the command line

Using this, but just reposting the command line part, and putting in some comments on what the parameters do.

rem Take ownership:
rem /a    Gives ownership to the administrators group instead of the current user.
rem /r    recursive
rem /d y  Default answer used when the current user does not have the "list folder"
rem       permission on a directory.  "Y" to take ownership.

takeown.exe /f "C:\Windows.old" /a /r /d y

rem Granting full control permission to the built in Administrators group
rem Asterisk used to denote Administrators group's SID (S-1-5-32-544) is used
rem /T    indicates that this operation is performed on all matching files
rem       and directories below the directories specified in the name.
rem /C    indicates that this operation will continue on all file errors. 
rem /Q    indicates that icacls should suppress success messages.

icacls "C:\Windows.old" /grant *S-1-5-32-544:f /t /c /q

rd /s /q "C:\Windows.old"

ConfigMgr: Powershell script to force evaluation of all configuration baselines (except user settings) on a remote machine

Usage: powershell.exe .\Force-DCMEvaluation.ps1 <COMPUTERNAME>

Force-DCMEvaluation.ps1:

param([Parameter(Mandatory=$true)][string] $ComputerName)

$Baselines = Get-WmiObject -ComputerName $ComputerName -Namespace root\ccm\dcm -Class SMS_DesiredConfiguration
$Baselines | % {([wmiclass]"\\$ComputerName\root\ccm\dcm:SMS_DesiredConfiguration").TriggerEvaluation($_.Name, $_.Version)}