There was a request from twitter friend who is trying to create SQL report to list the content of distribution point group with content status such as total targeted, installed, progress and errors. Distribution point groups is available in configuration manager for almost several years . This basically provide a logical grouping of distribution points for content distribution. we can create and use DP groups groups to manage and monitor content from a central location for distribution points that span multiple sites. For more information about managing distribution point and distribution point groups, please refer https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/configmgr/core/servers/deploy/configure/install-and-configure-distribution-points When you create DP…
Author: Eswar Koneti
Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager 2002 production build is out today. It is now available as in-console (for now only fast-ring) and baseline (will be available in the next couple of weeks). It has a bunch of new and updated features. For full list of features and installation, please refer http://eskonr.com/2020/04/sccm-configmgr-current-branch-2002-is-available-as-in-console-and-baseline-version/ One of the features that is available in this build version is ‘Show boundary groups for devices in configuration manager console’. clients use boundary group’s for site assignment, content location (DP), SUP, MP, and SMP. SMP doesn't use fallback relationships. From this build version, we can now identify the client…
Microsoft releases the configuration manager production builds 3 times a year. The first production build for this year,which is configuration manager 2002 is released today and is available as an in-console update (fastring only for now) and baseline version. You can apply this update on sites that run version 1806,1810, 1906 or 1910 from the console. You can also use this build 2002 to install new configuration manager sites. Before we start upgrading the site to latest build ,some of the interesting features are listed below. Following are some of the exciting features that we were all waiting to see…
Recently, I was assisting a colleague of mine on the iOS app deployment that was purchased through the apple volume purchase program with Microsoft Intune. The app was purchased through VPP and synced to intune successfully and assigned this app to a security group (user-based) as required. The devices that were used by users are corporate-owned and supervised with some lockdown features. When the app was deployed to a user-based security group, users were prompted to key in the credentials. Since the Apple store is restricted by the DEP profile, users cannot sign into the store. Following is the error…
Due to the COVID-19 outbreak and the situation is constantly changing around the world, the organization's started moving the workforce either from remote or work from home. Considering the number of users working remotely, it is very important to make sure that the devices are protected in all possible ways starting from windows security patching, antivirus, and other security tools available on the device. For windows security patching (manage the devices remotely) using SCCM/configuration manager, you have different options in configuration manager such as cloud management gateway, co-management. If your organization has installed a VPN on the endpoint, you…
Desktop Analytics is a cloud-based service that integrates with Configuration Manager (#MEMCM). Desktop Analytics provides insights and intelligence for you to make more informed decisions about the update readiness of your Windows clients. It combines data from your organization with data aggregated from millions of devices connected to Microsoft cloud services. For more information and how to setup desktop analytics, please read https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/configmgr/desktop-analytics/set-up. After setting up the desktop analytics, I went through some troubleshooting issues as the devices are not successful in the enrollment in the first place. The issues related to the proxy, network, services, etc. In this blog…
In the last 2 blog posts, I talked about the SCCM report for missing boundaries and How to find client boundary and boundary group information. These 2 blog post has a dependency on extending the MOF for client boundary group cache.In this blog post, we will see how to check if the client is missing in the boundary group. This method doesn't need the MOF extension and we query the wmi on the client directly and report the compliance or non-compliant status.we will use compliance settings (configuration item and configuration baseline) to detect if the client is in the configured…
The new edge chromium-browser (stable release) from Microsoft was already out on Jan 15th, 2020 and is amazing with many unique features amongst the other browsers out there.If you wanted to manage the deployment of this new edge browser using configuration manager, please read http://eskonr.com/2020/01/how-to-deploy-microsoft-edge-chromium-stable-version-using-configuration-manager/If you wanted to manage the deployment of this new edge browser using Microsoft intune, please read https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/intune/apps/apps-windows-edgeMicrosoft intune provide great features to protect your enterprise data using Windows Information Protection for windows 10 devices. For more information about windows WIP, please read https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/information-protection/windows-information-protection/protect-enterprise-data-using-wipIn this blog post, I am going to discuss the case of this…