Documentation for System Center 2012 Configuration Manager Features : Many of our existing Configuration Manager customers are used to thinking in terms of installing and configuring sites, and then configuring individual features, such as hardware inventory, software distribution, and software updates. This reflected the product evolution and our internal development teams, as functionality was added over the years. It was also reflected in the management console, with new nodes for each feature. As the product grew, the number of nodes in the console increased and made it challenging to navigate. The new design of the Configuration Manager console in System…
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SCCM client cache is location where it stores the packages on the client before any application runs from it. The default location for the Configuration Manager client cache is %windir%\ccmcache and the default disk space is 5120 MB. The Configuration Manager client downloads the content for required software soon after it receives the deployment but waits to run it until the deployment scheduled time. At the scheduled time, the Configuration Manager client checks to see whether the content is available in the cache. If content is in the cache and it is the correct version, the client always uses this…
long ago have posted report on computers with SCCM report for Last logged on computer name with application installed or not and SCCM report display computers with IPaddress based on Application/software this report gives you computers with ip address and last logged on username from a given collection : select A.Name0,c.IPAddress0 as 'IP ADDRESS',E.UserName0 as 'Lastlogged user' from v_R_System A inner join v_FullCollectionMembership B on A.ResourceID=B.ResourceID Inner join v_GS_NETWORK_ADAPTER_CONFIGUR C ON A.ResourceID=C.ResourceID Inner join v_GS_COMPUTER_SYSTEM E ON A.ResourceID=E.ResourceID where CollectionID=@COLLID and C.IPEnabled0='1' and c.ipaddress0 !='0.0.0.0' group by A.Name0,c.IPAddress0 ,E.UserName0 Prompt for collection: Select CollectionID,Name from v_Collection Note: Please replace…
Configuration Manager uses site system roles to support management operations at each site. When you install a Configuration Manager site, some site system roles are automatically installed and assigned to the server on which Configuration Manager Setup has run successfully. One of these site system roles is the site server, which you cannot transfer to another server or remove without uninstalling the site. You can use other servers to run additional site system roles or to transfer some site system roles from the site server by installing and configuring Configuration Manager site system servers. Each site system role supports different…
Listing the frequently asked questions on the features of configuration manager 2012 .This might be beneficial to you to know about its features and difference with its previous version of configuration manager 2007. The Configuration Manager Console : Does the Configuration Manager console support a 64-bit operation system? Yes. The Configuration Manager console is a 32-bit program that can run on a 32-bit version of Windows and on a 64-bit version of Windows. Sites and Hierarchies : Are there new Active Directory schema extensions for System Center 2012 Configuration Manager? No. The Active Directory schema extensions for System Center 2012…
Listing the comparison between Configuration manager 2007 what we know and configuration manager 2012. Feature Configuration Manager 2007 Configuration Manager 2012 Create/Model Software Package Program Application deployment deploy Software Advertisement(Install Status) Deployment(state-Based) Via Detection Method Targeting Collection Rules(server-Based) Requirement Rules(Client-Based) User-Targeting None or Limited User Device Affinity Client User Experience Run Advertised Programs Software Center Software Install From Website None Application Catalog Content Management None or Limited content Library
Configuration Manager 2012 RC2 native 64-bit applications no more supported on 32 Bit (OS and Hardware should be 64 Bit). Site server and Site roles : Windows Server 2008 (64-Bit) Windows Server 2008 R2 (64-Bit) Database (Below are listed for SCCM 2012 RC2): Supported versions of SQL Server 2008(64-Bit) for RC2: SQL Server 2008 SP2 Standard and Enterprise with CU7 SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1 and CU4 SQL Server Express 2008 R2 and CU4 If you are running SQL 2008 SP2, install CU7 from http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2617148 If you are running SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1, use CU4 from http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2633146 Distribution Point…
When SCCM client is installed on computers and get assigned to site correctly,you will have schedule ID’s for each agent that runs on the client. You can use the below codes to kick off different agents on the client. There are several scripts out there that will allow you to to do this. One of the most used is the SendSched.vbs file from the SMS 2003 Toolkit2. The toolkit can be downloaded from this link. Hardware Inventory Collection Task {00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000001} Software Inventory Collection Task {00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000002} Heartbeat Discovery Cycle {00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000003} Software Inventory File Collection Task {00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000010} Request Machine Policy Assignments {00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000021}…