Microsoft releasing the technical preview updates for SCCM Configmgr every month as part of ongoing commitment to quality and innovation .These technical preview updates will help to test in lab environment and report feedback to Microsoft before they made General Available (current Branch).To see these preview updates in your Configmgr console,you must have the base version of SCCM Configmgr Technical preview 5 (not applicable to current branch).These Technical Preview updates are intended for use in a lab environment. For more information about technical preview and updates, please refer https://technet.microsoft.com/library/mt595861.aspx? Today,28th September 2016 ,Microsoft released latest technical preview update 1609 (YYMM)…
Author: Eswar Koneti
Update: I have another post that shows the count of ms office version with architecture type 32 or 64 for specific collection on http://eskonr.com/2017/11/configmgr-report-for-count-of-ms-office-versions-with-architecture-type-32bit-and-64bit/ I wrote a blog post year ago on how to get count of MS Office Editions with versions installed across my environment using SCCM Configmgr. This report consists of 2 reports .1st report is ,to get count of Microsoft Editions for ex: how many are office 2003, 2007 ,2010 and 2013 and 2nd report is actually drilled report linked to 1st report to give list of all MS Office editions (what are the editions of office 2003…
Since few days ,have been working on case with Microsoft on client issue wherein ,some clients stuck at downloading the policies/jobs and remain in Queued state without any reason and they never get deployments. When you deploy the software update group to collection ,you will have to put a special attention to configuration setting in download settings : “If software updates are not available on preferred distribution point or remote distribution point,download content from Microsoft updates” This is a new feature in Configuration manager 2012 SP1 that allows clients to fall back and use Windows Update to download the content.…
Other day,I was looking at the client health dashboard which I published long ago https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/SCCM-Configmgr-2012-SSRS-2863c240 . From the dashboard report ,noticed that couple of clients were having software update scan issues . If client fail to perform success software update scan ,it is out of patching window and client will never send or receive any software updates that you deploy from SCCM. You always need to make sure your clients are performing the successful software update scan as per the schedule you configure in SCCM client agent settings. Software update troubleshooting guide http://eskonr.com/2015/04/sccm-2012-troubleshoot-client-software-update-issues/ So ,the report had couple of clients…
Since few days ,I am working on a customized Software update compliance dashboard report with some Pie charts for management to see how the patch compliance progress for each Business Unit (I say business unit means for each country). Management are interested to see the overall patch compliance summary for each country (focused on servers ) into a nice pie chart which can be published to them either Via emails (using SSRS subscriptions or put them on Bigger screens especially for server compliance status). This dashboard uses lot of pre-existing reports that are already published on my blog ,but there…
A friend of mine asked for help on, how to clean up the content inside ccmcache folder in a better way instead of using a script to deploy it as application/package/task sequence to devices. I would recommend using compliance settings(configuration item/configuration baseline) to deploy the script on a scheduled basis (monthly once or how you want) to Clients. One advantage of using compliance settings is that you do not need to use source files to implement this solution and it would be easier to discover and remediate if any content found older than x days. In this blog post, we…
Microsoft released new version of SCCM Configmgr Current Branch 1606 (YY MM) with lot of new features and improvements to the existing features. You can install this update via in-console update. With this new update ,there are also couple of newly added SQL views compared to its previous update (1602) which will help us to create reports in better way. So ,what’s new in SCCM Configmgr CB 1606 SQL reporting ? Lets have a look at ,what are SQL views added newly and also have this SQL Views document handy for reporting ,otherwise , you may end up looking into…
Yesterday (22-July-2016) Microsoft released new version of SCCM Configmgr Current Branch 1606 (YY MM) with lot of new features and improvements to the existing features. You can install this update via in-console update. You can update to latest version of SCCM Configmgr Current branch 1606 either from Configmgr 1511 or 1602 using in-console update. This Version 1606 for SCCM Configmgr current branch is both a baseline install (which you use to install a new hierarchy), and an update which you can use to update from version 1511 or 1602. Take a look at the checklist document for installing this update…