Author: Eswar Koneti

Beginning with the release of SCCM ConfigMgr Build 1710 or later , you can use the SCCM Console to identify client devices that require a restart, and then use a client notification action to restart them. If you want get this feature enabled on the client side ,you must also upgrade clients to version 1710 or later for this capability to function This become so much easier for SCCM engineers to restart the device with just one click . To identify devices that are pending a restart, you can go to the Assets and Compliance workspace and select the…

After long-time ,i am back with quick SCCM Configmgr software update compliance report .A friend of mine asked me today morning that ,he wants to check the compliance report for specific computer (could be VIP ) against one or multiple software update groups that they have created/deployed. How do you check the compliance status of computer for specific software update groups ONLY and not for all updates that are available in SCCM ? You have several software update compliance reports for software update groups and for computers but there is none to check if the particular computer is compliant…

This blog post is continuation to my previous post ‘Monitor collection evaluation's and remove incremental membership schedule for non-priority collections’ .More information can be found at http://eskonr.com/2019/01/sccm-configmgr-monitoring-collection-evaluations-and-change-update-membership-schedule-using-powershell/ . In this post ,we will see how to improve the collection evaluation performance further by identifying list of collections with direct rule created that have membership (incremental and/or full update) enabled and use powershell to remove the membership schedule. we will use the powershell script to identify 1)Direct based collections with Scheduled updates 2) Direct based collections with incremental updates + schedule updates 3) Direct based collections with incremental updates and…

Introduction: It has been very long since i did post on Configmgr as i am spending more time on office 365 projects but i got something on SCCM this week that i would like to share . I have many other posts in TO-DO list especially on custom reporting but will get release them when i find time. Recently , I was looking into automation of azure servers through SCCM . for newly build azure servers, We use SCCM to install apps ,configurations ,software updates and others using task sequence as part of operation readiness. When a new server…

Introduction: The Microsoft Surface Hub is an all in one multi-touch screen solution that empowers people, groups and organizations to connect and collaborate effortlessly. The Surface Hub is a wall-mounted or roller-stand-mounted device with either a 55-inch (140 cm) 1080p or an 84-inch (210 cm) 4K 120 Hz touchscreen with multi-touch and multi-pen capabilities, running the Windows 10 operating system.[3] The devices are targeted for businesses to use while collaborating and videoconferencing. More information about surface hub https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/surface-hub/manage-surface-hub Managing surface hub (allowing office 365 applications )using intune is very straight forward. All you need is enroll the surface hub either…

When we started of with office 365 project ,one of the key application to be delivered to users is Teams application. Teams is the primary client for intelligent communications in Office 365, replacing Skype for Business Online over time. When we started deploying the teams clients to windows computers using SCCM Configmgr ,teams will auto startup upon computer restart/user logoff & log in and is by design . When the Teams application is installed on windows PC (it doesn't require admin rights to install and installation location is C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Teams ) ,it has auto-start application setting enabled by default. With this…

In my previous blog post, we saw how to install Data Warehouse role in Configuration manager build 1806 and also looked at the client data that is being deleted in primary site server for reporting purpose with some SQL views information. In this blog post, we will see what information being stored in data warehouse before we start working on custom reports for users/customers to review historical data. Central /Primary site database contains huge data about clients ,applications ,inventory ,execution data and much more. For list of SQL views in SCCM Configmgr ,please visit with the installation of data…

Introduction: Customer is running on SCCM Configmgr current branch 1806 and configured with site maintenance tasks to delete the aged data for X number days . when you configure the site maintenance task ,the data which is older than X number days get deleted from site database which is expected. So customer has asked ,is there is way to know the clients that get deleted by site maintenance task or manual or other ways .So basically whatever get deleted in the site database including devices ,inventory etc.,customer wanted to have a record at later stage. In earlier versions of…