Category: Collections

Investigating SCCM Client Policy Request and Communication Status with a Collection Specific Report

Posted on October 15, 2022 by | 15 Comments | 13,740 Views
Introduction: As a SCCM Configmgr administrator, one of your key responsibilities is to ensure the health of SCCM clients for tasks like application deployment, software updates, and inventory management. Oftentimes, you may encounter situations where you need to identify computers that haven't contacted the server in a specific number of days or determine the clients…
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SCCM Collection for AAD joined devices (co-managed)

Posted on February 5, 2021 by | 0 Comments | 7,373 Views
Co-management enables you to concurrently manage Windows 10 devices by using both Configuration Manager and Microsoft Intune. For more information about Co-management, benefits, pre-requisites, licensing, read https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/mem/configmgr/comanage/overview When you have windows 10 devices that are Azure AD joined, enrolled to Intune, and also co-managed, these devices would appear in Configuration Manager. In this blog post,…
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SCCM Collection for devices online with green checkmark

Posted on January 21, 2021 by | 1 Comment | 7,860 Views
This is quick blog post on how to create device collection for computers that are online and showing the green checkmark. When a configuration manager client is installed,it will have the following status code indicating the device. For more information about device client status, please refer here How do we create a collection for clients…
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Software Update Compliance report for CMG connected devices

Posted on August 10, 2020 by | 0 Comments | 3,599 Views
With COVID-19 around the globe, the organizations who are using Configuration Manager have shown much interest in Cloud Management Gateway. Cloud Management Gateway helps you to manage the clients on the internet. For more information on how to setup CMG, please refer https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/mem/configmgr/core/clients/manage/cmg/setup-cloud-management-gateway A customer who recently deployed Cloud management gateway, wanted to monitor the…
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Collection Evaluation Viewer is now integrated with Configuration Manager

Posted on August 8, 2020 by | 0 Comments | 2,786 Views
Configuration Manager uses collection evaluation to update collection membership, based on the collection rules you define. Collection evaluation scope and timing differ depending on site and collection configuration and evaluation type. With Configuration Manager Technical preview release 2008, a new feature is introduced that helps to integrate collection Evaluation viewer into the configuration manager console directly. With…
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Use SCCM compliance settings to detect the ESU activation for windows 7 and server 2008

Posted on May 10, 2020 by | 6 Comments | 12,924 Views
As you already know that, Windows 7 and windows server 2008/R2 has reached their end of support lifecycle on January 14, 2020, however you can purchase the extended security updates (ESU) for windows 7 and server 2008/R2 through volume licensing to make sure these devices are protected. For more information about how to purchase the…
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SCCM Collection–how to identify devices that have old AD system discovery timestamp ?

Posted on September 18, 2019 by | 0 Comments | 7,827 Views
SCCM has multiple discovery methods help you discover devices on your network, devices and users from Active Directory, or users from Azure Active Directory (Azure AD). Read more about the discovery methods in SCCM https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sccm/core/servers/deploy/configure/about-discovery-methods AD system discovery help to discover computer resources that can be used to create collections and queries. You can also…
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How to install SCCM Client from Microsoft Intune for Co-managed and CMG – Notes from the field

Posted on July 8, 2019 by | 6 Comments | 25,878 Views
I had setup SCCM Cloud Management gateway and Co-management for small customer who would like to extend the SCCM operations to windows 10 devices which are connected to internet. The cloud management gateway (CMG) provides a simple way to manage Configuration Manager clients on the internet. By deploying the CMG as a cloud service in…
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