Background: I had a requirement to not allow others except Configmgr admins to deny access to Configmgr 2012 Console, also to Configmgr SQL Database access (this can be done by revoking access from SSRS_Read Group.If the users are part of this group,they can install SQL and try to connect to configmgr database remotely to run queries).How do we provide access to service Desk /Others to access reports In General? Create AD security group,add this group to SMS Admins (to get access to the SMS Provider) on Configmgr server,Create new Security role in Configmgr by providing Run report permissions and add…
Author: Eswar Koneti
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This Blog post brings up some basics about Configmgr Client Actions, what they are and what each action does. After you have installed the Configuration manager Client on computers, Client will get install (refer log ccmsetup.log for more information ) with exit code 0 and It takes little while ,to register the client in Configuration manager Database, assigned to Site, load policies etc. After a while, you can open Configuration manager applet from Control panel (shortcut to use: control smscfgrc from Run Command), go to Actions, you should see more than 2 actions, if not ,as usual start troubleshooting by…
We have been seeing many hotfixes and Cumulative updates for configmgr 2012 product .For each hotfix /CU level,the client version will get change. As you test and deploy these hotfixes /CU's in your environment ,you are also required to maintain the environment both clients and server client to the same level as your site running. Being configmgr admin,you are responsible to maintain clients levels same as that of your site server.i created SSRS Report to list down all the client versions, Description of Version name and its count. I have created nice SSRS Report to list the count of configmgr…
This is continues to my Previous post (Part 1) that we saw yesterday on how to install Configmgr 2012 R2 CU1 on Primary Site. In this post,we will see how to install CU1 on Site Server s Secondary Sites,Admin Console and Clients. Installation of CU1 on secondary Site can be done in 2 ways depends on hierarchy.If you have more number of secondary sites,prefer to go with software distribution method OR if you have limited say 1 or 2 ,prefer to CU manually on the secondary Site . In this blog post,I will talk through the installation of CU using…
Configmgr 2012 R2 Cumulative Update 1 released today(Mar 28,2014), to know more about this update,refer http://eskonr.com/2014/03/configmgr-2012-r2-cumulative-update-cu1-released/ Installation of any Cumulative Update is straight forward process (so Far) by clicking Next,Next ,Next and is simple to consider but you should be cautious before doing the upgrade like taking up the backup of Configmgr and should be recent one,make sure your site is running in good condition. My Lab Hierarchy Consists of 1 Primary,1 Secondary and 2 Distribution points with several clients. all servers running on windows server 2012 OS. What is the Hierarchy to install the Update ? You should come…
Most awaited and First SCCM Configmgr 2012 R2 Cumulative Update 1 KB2938441 which was expected to be released in Q2 (as per the news from various forums) but Microsoft decided to release it early and here it is for you. There has been many DCR’s(Design Change Request) raised by several of Configmgr guys and my self raised support ticket with Microsoft about software center available date after showing old date(1998) ,more info here and Microsoft tried to resolve most of them in Cumulative Update 1. As this is the first Cumulative Update,it will not replace any other previous Update. so…
Content Prestage in Configmgr 2012 is a new/Updated feature from its previous Version Configmgr 2007(Preloading).Content Prestaging is mainly used for the sites which has Slow or costly network connectivity. When you are creating new site Distribution Point at remote location with Slow connectivity,you cannot distribute the missing packages due to bandwidth constraints.Configmgr 2012 allows you to create Prestage Content means,You can Export the content from One DP (Note: Only DPs under this particular Site could be Primary or Secondary will be listed but not from Other sites) ,copy to Disk,ship it and then import to the newly configured DP. To…
Few days back,I was working on Client health remediation issues.for this activity,I created some cool SSRS reports based on client health statistics,you can find them on the below link: http://eskonr.com/2014/05/sccm-configmgr-2012-ssrs-dashboard-client-health-summary-report/ With above report,found that ,Count of missing clients very few hundred which is 2% from total --not bad but still need to install the client on missing computers using different client installation methods like client push,logon script etc . Since i have few hundred computers,i would prefer to go with client push installation using clientpushgenerator tool. while troubleshooting the client installation ,I found many clients appearing twice --duplicate records,obsolete ,One…