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 time to update (collection evaluation viewer tool from Configmgr 2012 toolkit) or identifying the collections that update too frequently than expected etc. This blog post will assist you to identify collections with count of direct membership rules and type of schedule and other important collection…
Author: Eswar Koneti
Microsoft released SCCM Configmgr Upgrade Assessment Tool that provides administrative users with information that they can use to determine if the computers that are managed by System Center Configuration Manager can run Windows 7, Windows 8 or Windows 10. The Upgrade Assessment Tool provides the following functionality: Retrieves device driver compatibility information for installed peripheral devices and creates reports that you can use to determine which device drivers need to be upgraded to support the Windows operating system. Allows you to see which computers meet the recommended system requirements for Windows operating systems and to customize these requirements for…
A month ago ,18th Feb 2016 ,Microsoft released Configmgr 1602 (YYMM) for Technical Preview 4 with some exciting features and updates . After a month later ,Yesterday i.e 18th March 2016 ,Microsoft announced of another update 1603 ((Note : this is only for Technical preview but not for Current Branch V1602,Production version)) for Technical Preview 4 with some new features and fixed 2 voice items that were raised through Configmgr user Voice forum. Features included in this update are: List View for Applications in Software Center – In the Software Center Applications tab, users now have the option to switch…
I had requirement from team to find out the clients that have one application (example Java) with one version installed and exclude clients that have multiple versions with same application installed. Lets take simple example . I have clients CLN01,CLN02,CLN03 and CLN04 and they have different versions of Java application installed on them. PC Name Application Version CLN01 Java 7 Update 45 8.0.005 CLN01 Java(TM) 6 Update 37 6.0.370 CLN01 Java 7 Update 80 7.0.450 CLN02 Java 7 Update 45 8.0.005 CLN02 Java(TM) 6 Update 37 6.0.370 CLN03 Java 7 Update 80 7.0.450 CLN04 Java 7 Update 45 8.0.005 Now…
One of my Blog reader has posted a comment asking for ‘How to create Collection to pop-up clients from multiple Collections start with ABC% ‘ ? ABC is the Collection Name starts with. If you want to create a collection to see all clients from different Collections and the Collection Name starts with ABC .How do you get this done ? For this requirement, You Cannot use Include collection as this is not Dynamic .If you choose to go with Include collection (which is Static) ,you cannot get the clients from collections that will be created in the…
There was a question raised by someone on MyItform list ,asking for ‘is there a way to get superseded patch list’ for all windows 7”. when I read the question ,I was thinking ,we can get this using the default reports but when I check the default reports,there is no such report that match this requirement . So ,I sat for sometime in the lab ,started writing the SQL Query ,found something . So thought of writing this blog post that helps others who are in similar needs. If you want to know particular patch (ex:Cumulative Update for Windows…
Microsoft is doing fabulous job on System Center configuration manager product by enhancing ,adding the new features ,update the existing features in the form of Technical preview’s before making them to Production version and they listen the ideas ,suggestions reported through Configuration manager User Voice https://configurationmanager.uservoice.com/forums/300492-ideas A day before (18th Feb 2016) ,Microsoft released Configmgr 1602 (YYMM) for Technical Preview 4 which is latest version (Note : this is only for Technical preview but not for Current Branch V1511,Production version) with some exciting features and updates to the existing features that were in 1601. One of the most exciting feature…
By default,when you install Configmgr Reporting services point role,it create lot of reports with NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM account and this information can be seen from log called ‘srsrp.log’ on your Site system server.If you look at srsrp.log,there will be lot of information tracked along with list of reports it created ,its path (web path) etc. If you want to find the rdl files for these reports(only for default ) ,browse <Configmgr Installation Drive>:\SMS_SRSRP\Reports . Some of the reports resides in these respective category folders ,they do not have proper naming for ex: I look at category ‘Software_Updates_-_A_Compliance’,reports are named with ‘report290,report291’…