CM2012 – Page 8 – All about Microsoft Endpoint Manager

SCCM Current Branch Remote Console connectivity issues Insufficient privilege to connect, error Access is denied

Posted on April 7, 2017 by Eswar Koneti | 3 Comments | 17,672 Views

Since few days ,i have been working on the SCCM console connectivity issues from remote box. This is completely new setup replacing the existing CAS with primaries and going with flat design (1 Primary site.There is blog post coming soon on the SCCM design considerations and notes from the field ) As part of setting…

SCCM Configmgr CI to check server role or feature installed

Posted on April 4, 2017 by Eswar Koneti | 7 Comments | 5,895 Views

In this blog post, we will see how to use compliance item in configuration manager to check specific server role or feature installed on server or not .This request has come up to due to the fact that ,one of the engineer has enabled desktop experience feature on some of the servers which leads to…

SCCM Configmgr SQL WQL query compare 2 or more collections to get the difference

Posted on March 22, 2017 by Eswar Koneti | 1 Comment | 4,713 Views

This is quick post to show you ,how to compare 2 or more collections to find clients that are not member of other collections. The reason for me to write this collection is ,for server patching ,we have been using direct membership rules ( I know AD sec groups is good way to automate this…

SCCM ConfigMgr report for local admins and local group members

Posted on March 9, 2017 by Eswar Koneti | 105 Comments | 80,025 Views

I had a requirement to generate report to list members (users/groups) of local administrators group on servers for auditing purpose. Finding the users/groups who are member of local administrator group manually or scripting is tedious task on all servers .If you are managing the devices with configuration manager ,you can leverage Configmgr tool to get…

SCCM Configmgr how to manage clients in untrusted forest

Posted on February 28, 2017 by Eswar Koneti | 43 Comments | 40,039 Views

Few weeks ago ,i was assigned with task to manage clients in untrusted forest using Configuration Manager 2012 R2 SP1.Yes, we are still running on Configmgr 2012 but soon (next few weeks) on Configmgr Current Branch . Scenario is ,I have a forest (intranet.asia) where SCCM 2012 R2 SP1 is installed and this is being…

How to find and update DNS server search order using SCCM Configmgr

Posted on February 13, 2017 by Eswar Koneti | 4 Comments | 18,322 Views

If you are using SCCM Configmgr in your environment, you can accomplish lot manual /administrative tasks using Configmgr using deployment/compliance method. Recently I was working on task to update the DNS records (Primary DNS server IP ) for lot of servers as servers use static IP and is required to change it on all…

Configmgr PowerShell script to create deployments for multiple software update groups to multiple collections

Posted on February 2, 2017 by Eswar Koneti | 26 Comments | 13,840 Views

Introduction: Updated: This post is valid only if your Configmgr is running Current Branch 1702 and above versions due the change in powershell cmdlet New-CMSoftwareUpdateDeployment . Software update groups provide you with an effective method to organize software updates in your environment. Software update group consists of multiple software updates (metadata Only) .You can manually add software…

SCCM Configmgr How to get clients maintenance window with custom dates (Past and Future )

Posted on January 24, 2017 by Eswar Koneti | 6 Comments | 5,753 Views

Introduction: Maintenance windows in Configmgr help to ensure that client configuration changes occur during periods that do not affect the productivity of the organization. Following Operations can be performed during the Maintenance window: Software update deployments Compliance settings deployment and evaluation Operating system deployments Task sequence deployments More about MW https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh508762.aspx?f=255&MSPPError=-2147217396 Problem: So ,If you…