Category: CM2012

My blog has reached 2 Million views since it was created

Posted on January 4, 2017 by | 2 Comments | 317 Views
Introduction: I started blogging in year 2009 on www.eskonr.wordpress.com which was free from wordpress, but later I decided to move it to my own domain called www.eskonr.com in year 2010. Since then every year the number of views on my blog is getting increased twice and thrice compared to its previous year with increase in…
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SCCM Configmgr How to get list of deployments set to ignore maintenance window and Reboot Outside maintenance window

Posted on January 3, 2017 by | 6 Comments | 8,870 Views
Introduction: Few months ago ,we had an issue with one of the deployment (it was software updates) that was deployed to collection with override service window due to emergency patch to be installed on the clients. Deployment went fine and results were positive .All good ,but after few days ,some clients were added to the…
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SCCM Configmgr how to find applications with no deployments as part of maintenance tasks

Posted on December 21, 2016 by | 10 Comments | 7,515 Views
  Introduction: One of my blog reader asked question about ‘There is report in your blog to find out packages that has no advertisements created,but is there similar report to find applications with no deployments created’. I found this question is valid and is needed if you want to perform maintenance tasks like cleanup packages,applications,collections…
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Powershell script to delete computer records from SCCM

Posted on November 19, 2016 by | 12 Comments | 25,232 Views
Recently I had a requirement to create a PowerShell script to read text file/CSV for list of clients (servers mainly) and check if they appear in SCCM if so delete them ,track the information into log file for reference. There could be various reasons why do you want to delete computer record from SCCM and…
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Microsoft Deployment toolkit (MDT) build version 8443 is now available

Posted on November 14, 2016 by | 0 Comments | 3,398 Views
The Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) is a free tool for automating Windows and Windows Server operating system deployment, leveraging the Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit (ADK) for Windows 10. Microsoft released new build version 8443 for Microsoft Deployment Toolkit with some quality updates. This build update requires Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit (ADK) for Windows…
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SCCM Configmgr the source directory doesn’t exist or the SMS service cannot access it, Win32 last error = 5

Posted on November 7, 2016 by | 4 Comments | 14,208 Views
Setting up new SCCM Configmgr Current Branch 1606 in production environment .As part of it ,have created source folder (repository for content store) and placed couple of packages/applications for testing . while trying to distribute the packages, all failed with same error code. The source directory \\servername\sources$\Applications\Microsoft\SCUPCert doesn't exist or the SMS service cannot access…
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SCCM Configmgr check if allow clients to use fallback source location for content is selected or not

Posted on November 3, 2016 by | 15 Comments | 10,797 Views
  Have seen couple of times on SCCM Configmgr forums asking for ‘How to get applications /deployment types that has allow clients to use fallback source location for content ’ is checked or not. Allow fallback source location for content: This feature is designed to allow client to gain access (fallback) to content that is…
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How to find who initiated restart of SCCM Configmgr Client

Posted on November 1, 2016 by | 13 Comments | 61,822 Views
  Colleague of mine has received request to check why did the SCCM client (server OS) rebooted during office hours and more details about the reboot (who initiated etc.). I started looking at this request to find out whether the client was rebooted due to windows patching or any applications pushed by SCCM. During my…
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