Configmgr How use compliance settings to check windows update agent version (WUA) is older ,Collection and SQL query

Using compliance settings in Configmgr, you can do many tasks as part of compliance. In the last couple of blogs, we have utilized compliance settings to identify WU settings,automatic update,trusted publisher settings etc. http://eskonr.com/2017/10/configmgr-how-to-use-compliance-settings-to-check-the-windows-update-policy-settings-like-wuserver-usewuservernoautoupdate-on-clients/ In this blog post ,we will see how to use compliance settings to check for Windows update agent version if it…
How to Query Clients collection or SSRS with Online Status in SCCM Configmgr 1602

  Microsoft has introduced new feature in System Center Configuration manager Build Version 1602  called Client Online Status .This is really cool and exciting feature which is really needed these days to know if the computer is online or offline (of course ,SCCM agent must be working and healthy which is different story). A new…
SCCM Configmgr identify count of Direct membership rules ,collection Schedule Refresh Types

Collections in Configmgr play a crucial role .If you want to do anything(can be software deployment,OSD ,Client agent settings,Software updates,compliance etc) in configmgr against clients,you a collection . Being Configmgr administrator, it is always important to look at collection performance ,if they are scheduled well and do some maintenance like identifying collections that take longer…
SCCM Configmgr 2012 Create device collection using the User Department attribute

  Recently ,I have got a request from the business unit manager on the reboot of computers due to patch management (applicable to Applications as well) .The Custom client device setting ‘ Display temporary notification to the user ' (shown below) set with 480 minutes across the enterprise workstations but specific department (ex: Engineering), not…
SCCM  2012 Collection SSRS report with No SEP client or SEP Client is older version

Rolled out new Symantec endpoint Protection (SEP) Version to clients across all the sites. After few days ,report (All application deployment –Basic)  says ,around 100+ computers still running on old version which did not upgraded to deployed version.Out of these 100+ clients,some of them already have deployed version if I check via resource explorer (also…
How to Upgrade Clients to SCCM 2012 R2 CU4

It has been almost month for now ,since the release of Configmgr 2012 R2 CU4.To know more about what CU4 includes,you can refer the KB3026739 article http://support.microsoft.com/kb/3026739. Installation of Configmgr 2014 CU4 is similar to installation of previous Cumulative updates and it is straight forward. If you miss to install the Previous Cumulative updates,you can…