One of most important and critically used feature in configuration manager 2012 is Software updates .It is always challenging and import task for any sccm administrator to achieve good patch compliance success rate within the given SLA(Service level agreement).Patch compliance success rate is depends mainly on heath of your SCCM clients and some times things may go wrong even though sccm client is healthy (able to receive applications/packages and performing inventory except patches). I have created lot of SSRS reports on software update compliance out of many,one of the widely used report is get the patch compliance status of software…
Author: Eswar Koneti
This blog post is quick one to check ,patch (BulletinID) is member of what software update package.You may be wondering why do you need to check since clients can connect to the DP and download the patches as long as these patches are available on the DP. Here is short background of it. Background :I was looking at patches released during February 2015 as part of patching process in Configuration manager 2012 console at customer.Configmgr site used by 2 different departments with different procedures (one dept manage X number of Clients and other manages Y number of clients) within the…
It has been almost month for now ,since the release of Configmgr 2012 R2 CU4.To know more about what CU4 includes,you can refer the KB3026739 article http://support.microsoft.com/kb/3026739. Installation of Configmgr 2014 CU4 is similar to installation of previous Cumulative updates and it is straight forward. If you miss to install the Previous Cumulative updates,you can directly apply CU4 on Configmgr 2012 R2 . To check if CU4 installed ,you can check the Admin console version in the About System Center Configuration Manager dialog box and version should be 5.0.7958.1501. You can also check the registry key if CU level is…
Problem Description: Users (AD Security Group called: eskonr\domain Users) from specific project in the organization do not have admin privileges on their computers (don’t ask why) .I have an application (Matrix ) which is installed using Configuration manager 2012 and users are using this application for their daily routine activities without any issues so far(without admin rights). Recently ,due to some project requirement,they need to have full permissions to specific folders (C: \program files\matrix\3D or what ever) to modify some files and settings to get the application working . To grant full permissions or required permissions to specific folders…
Recently , I worked on MS Office upgrade project to 2013 and before I take any action on this,I need to identify /get count of all MS Office Versions installed on the computers that are managed by Configuration manager 2012. There is no default Configmgr report that provide you this information ,so you must create custom SSRS Report .I started working on Custom SSRS Report to get count of office versions .During my search results ,found a blog post from TechNet that provide you the count of MS Office Versions only but not what specific edition in each version…
In order to check the Patch compliance/Deployment status,there are some default reports ,one of the widely used report to know the compliance status for specific Update group on specific collection is –>Compliance 1-Overall Compliance. But the sub report /drill down/Linked report to view the list of non complaint computers do not provide you the required information for troubleshooting clients like its last hardware inventory, os, last logged on user, last loggedon timestamp etc.For this reason,I created custom SSRS Report that will help me to get some nice statistics and extra client information . Last month I did post about Software…
Status messages generated by Configmgr Components report its activity and problems when occurs .These status messages are primarily used to indicate the health of Configmgr 2012 Components . While ago, John Nelson posted blog about ,Status Messages Documentation for Configmgr 2007 SP2 available here but after that ,haven't found any status message documentation for Configuration manager 2012. There was a discussion recently on the Configmgr forum email list about status message document for CM12 R2 CU3 and Sherry Kissinger share the documentation to the group which am posting it here for rest of the world. Saud from Microsoft posted PowerShell…
There are multiple posts online, discuss about how to uninstall Windows updates if something goes wrong with deployed patches, but I did not find anything related to Office security updates. In this post,I will discuss about, How to Uninstall Microsoft Office Security Updates using Configuration manager 2012. Background: With the release of December 2014 patches, A Bulletin ID (MS14-082- KB2726958 )related to Microsoft Office 2013 caused the macros in Excel 2010 spreadsheets stop working /breaks the macros to work. More information about this issue was discussed on the TechNet forum https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/17254fab-9ecd-49e7-bab7-f76906167d4a/office-2013-update-kb-2726958-problem?forum=officeitpro When user tries to execute the Excel that has Macros/VBA…