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.…
Author: Eswar Koneti
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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This post is continuation to my previous post on how to clean outdated computers from configmgr Database.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Through this post,i will show you to create Powershell script cleanup duplicate obsolete and outdated computers Via Task schedule that deletes the computers from specific collections to maintain configmgr database healthy.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…
few weeks Ago, Microsoft released Cumulative Update 2 (kb2970177) for Configuration manager 2012 R2 which supersedes previously released cumulative Update (1). This update fixes several issues ,supports to new platform for Unix/Linux and brings changes to Configmgr powershell cmd-lets as well. Download the Cumulative Update 2 from http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2970177 Description of Windows PowerShell changes in CU2 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2962855 About Cumulative Update documentation,refer http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj553405.aspx The installation procedure is straight forward.You can refer my previous blog post ,where i showed how to Install Configmgr 2012 R2 CU1 http://eskonr.com/2014/03/how-to-install-configmgr-2012-r2-cu1-part-1/. In this post,I will show you how to create collections to bring the configmgr clients which…
Few weeks Ago, When Robert announced about his new product called LocationAware to control the selection of Management Points, I was elected as one of the beta tester to test the functionality of this product .After many modifications /revisions to the tool,the final product has come out and is available to order. There are certain times, we would tell to customer,that there is no way that you can control the clients to choose particular management point with today's product and customer would say ,ahh no,there should be way to do it .But now,with the release of Robert tool,you can say…
Had a problem with sccm 2012 client installation today,it keeps generating error code 1638 from ccmsetup.log . File C:\Windows\ccmsetup\{181D79D7-1115-4D96-8E9B-5833DF92FBB4}\client.msi installation failed. Error text: ExitCode: 1638 Use ctrl+L to find the error code description for 1638, it says “Another version of this product is already installed. Installation of this version cannot continue. To configure or remove the existing version of this product, use Add/Remove Programs on the Control Panel” I tried uninstalling the client using ccmsetup.exe /uninstall,also tried with ccmclean.exe before reinstalling client but that doesn't help. It seems like,the previously installed client was either partially installed and it cannot continue…