Maintenance windows in SCCM Configmgr enable you to define a time when SCCM operations can be carried out on members of a device collection. These maintenance windows are helpful to ensure that client configuration changes occur during periods that do not affect the productivity of the organization. More information about Maintenance windows refer https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sccm/core/clients/manage/collections/use-maintenance-windows I had requirement to remove all Maintenance windows that are set on list of collections .Removing the Maintenance windows for each collection would be tedious task. Right click on collection ,select maintenance window and delete the Maintenance window. Note:Removing the Maintenance windows allow to install…
Author: Eswar Koneti
I had setup standalone intune (MDM authority to Intune) to manage mobile devices long-time ago ,but after doing some testing on android,windows and iOS devices ,i decided to change MDM authority from Intune to Configuration Manager console (hybrid) . To change the MDM authority from intune to hybrid ,Login login to SCCM console ,go to administration –>cloud services –>Microsoft intune subscription –>Add Microsoft Intune Subscription This process will prompt you to login using Microsoft intune subscription ,configure company contact information,logo etc. After doing all the initial setup , verified logs and confirm that the MDM authority is set to…
If you want to know who executed (number of times ) the Configuration manager reports (or any other SSSRS reports) or if anyone compliant that some of the Configmgr reports are running slow or timed out ,how do you find the such reports and take action ? I receive requests from remote users saying that they have issue while running some of the custom reports but when i run ,they works fine but not for remote users. There could be so many reasons why the report loads slow (network or SQL code issues etc) which am not going to discuss…
I have got my standalone Intune setup with few devices enrolled . In this post, i will go through the reporting feature using using Power BI to connect to Intune to load data and generate reports dynamically. These reports will help us to analyse the users who are enrolling the devices for license purchases ,to see the OS manufactures ,compliance status ,updates etc. Before we proceed further ,first download the Power BI Desktop using link https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/downloads/ Power BI Desktop file is about 140MB ,once it is downloaded ,run the setup file with default options. Start the Power BI Click on…
OverJoyed …..I got an email yesterday from the Microsoft MVP Award team saying that ,I have been awarded with Microsoft MVP award in Enterprise Mobility for 2017. I am extremely proud and honored to receive this award. I started blogging (www.eskonr.com) in year 2009 to to share my technical views,tips and tricks that I have seen in my daily work on SMS 2003 /SCCM/Configmgr In 2012 and to keep this as my reference .I have no idea what the award means when I started blogging in the early stages of my career .It was purely on the basis of…
To manage software updates using SCCM/Configmgr, software update scan (with help of windows update agent) is mandatory without which ,client cannot download the update catalog (metadata) from WSUS and perform the scan for letting the server know what is required and what is not required using the state messages. When i was looking at the software update scan reports few days ago ,identified some of the clients (Windows servers) could not able perform software update scan. So i decided to take look at the one of the client logs and troubleshoot further. After logging into the server ,looked at wuahandler.log…
If you are using SCUP (system Center Update Publisher) tool to manage 3rd Party updates integrated with Configuration manager, there are 2 things which you need to look at . 1) The settings that are configured in SCUP Console are per user specific and stored in User profile (user.config in C:\Users\%UserName%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Scup2011.exe_StrongName_XXXXXXXXXX) 2) Database file that store all your 3rd party catalogue ,publications etc also stored in user profile (C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\System Center Updates Publisher 2011\) at the time of configuration of SCUP. If other users who have permissions ,try to open SCUP console , they will see everything blank and it is…
Few months ago ,i wrote blog post about how to use Compliance Settings to clean content in ccmcache folder. For more information, please refer http://eskonr.com/2016/08/sccm-configmgr-how-to-clean-ccmcache-content-older-than-x-days-using-compliance-settings/ This blog post is about deletion of client log files that contain SCNotify and SCClient. What does these logs capture information about ? SCNotify_<domain>@<username>_1.log : Records the activity for notifying users about software for the specified user. SCNotify_<domain>@<username>_1-<date_time>.log: Records the historical information for notifying users about software for the specified user. SCClient_<domain>@<username>_1.log: Records the activity in Software Center for the specified user on the client computer. SCClient_<domain>@<username>_2.log: Records the historical activity in Software Center for…