Started working with New Customer since few weeks ago ,running Configmgr 2012 R2 CU1 ,yet to upgrade to Latest CU . since few days,I have been running lot of SQL Queries ,reports checking the SCCM client health and analyzing the existing setup for some improvements. For everything what ever you do in SCCM,the first and foremost is ,client health,otherwise ,there is nothing for you to manage . Using reports/ collections, cleanup lot of old records ,fix SCCM client issues using scripts and clients are now at good success rate (>95%). Even though, client health success rate is >95% ,for some…
Author: Eswar Koneti
In this post, i will discuss about how to install CU3 update and How to Upgrade clients to CU3 with query based collections. Installation of CU3 is not that difficult ,it is straight forward .If you need step by step with screenshots ,you can refer my previous post http://eskonr.com/2014/03/how-to-install-configmgr-2012-r2-cu1-part-1/ So,as i discussed in my previous post about the CU3 update : it contains many bug fixes with respect to Powershell and other Site server and client functionalities including 3 important new changes to this update. 1) you can now assign the clients to Specific Management point (kind of restrict the client…
Microsoft Released 3rd Cumulative Update 3 KB2994331 yesterday for System Center Configuration Manager 2012 R2 with lot of fixes,powershell changes and some of them have been modified/new stuff added. With this update,you can set a client to use a specific management point(s) by setting a registry value ,which is kind of Location Aware 😉 ,More info ,read Justin Chalfant's blog This update replaces Cumulative Update 2 for System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager.If you have not applied CU1 or CU2 yet on your Configuration manager 2012 R2,you can directly go with CU3. Download the Cumulative Update 3 (ConfigMgr_2012_R2_CU3_KB2994331_ENU – 96.8MB) from…
Last year i wrote blog post on summary of patch compliance status report --month wise and am sure ,it would helped many of Configmgr guys who are responsible for patching and to let security /management know whether they met the company SLA for each month or not. I have received couple of comments for my previous blog post ,asking for ,is there way to limit this report to specific collection instead of all active clients .My previous report get the compliance status for all active clients in Configmgr irrespective of ,whether you manage the patching for all clients or not.…
Quick Post: There was a question on TechNet forum asking,about who created the collection ,More read http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/e5ea645e-84ec-49ce-82f5-e5d92b0f49a5/details-on-sccm-collection-creation?forum=configmanagergeneral I have seen few cases in Configmgr 2007 and less in Configmgr 2012 due to RBA ,that Configmgr guys will try to do something on collection but it ends at something that causes the resources to disappear from Configmgr database and later you know the consequences from top management. The easiest way to get the resources into Configmgr is,to run the discovery. Recently peter posted a blog about Who created that deployment and who deleted that deployment but these posts mainly focus on…
This post is continuation to my previous post on how to clean outdated computers from configmgr Database. More info refer , http://eskonr.com/2014/03/sccm-configmgr-2012-delete-duplicate-obsolete-records-etc-using-collections/ Through this post,i will show you to create Powershell script cleanup duplicate obsolete and outdated computers Via Task schedule that deletes the computers from specific collections to maintain configmgr database healthy. In my previous blog,we have seen how to create collections for duplicate,obsolete,computers not contacted to domain during X days with hardware inventory older than 30 days etc. Note: if you are imaging the computers frequently ,you may see many duplicate/obsolete computers are you are required to cleanup…
Long Ago,wrote a powershell script to add packages,applications,driver packages,Boot Images etc to selected Distribution Points,more information http://eskonr.com/2014/02/configmgr-2012-updated-powershell-script-add-packages-applications-drivers-to-distribution-point/ As Configmgr admin,we will be doing some maintenance cleanup activities monthly or quarterly for applications,packages,drivers ,collection etc.I will write another post on ,how to identify the packages which are not used from longer period by Configmgr clients. Removing single package from console is straight forward .Right click on package and click delete.This process takes few steps asking to go through the prompt to answer or delete directly. I have collected several packages with different package types like applications,driver packages,SUP packages etc using the…
Updated: 03/Oct/2014 : Download the Updated version of System Center 2012 Configuration Manager Servicing Extension Tool from microsoft.connect Microsoft released another Configuration manager extension tool called Service Extension (Beta) that provides useful information for maintaining a Configuration Manager environment. This tool provides the following benefits from Configmgr Admin Console (administration Pane): Notifies you of Configuration Manager updates as they become available, with the ability to filter updates according to which major release they apply to Provides details on the sites in your environment, including the last major Configuration Manager version installed and the most recently installed Cumulative Update Provides a list of…