Configuration Item – All about Microsoft Endpoint Manager

Using compliance settings to check client boundary group in configuration manager

Posted on February 17, 2020 by Eswar Koneti | 0 Comments | 4,530 Views

In the last 2 blog posts, I talked about the SCCM report for missing boundaries and How to find client boundary and boundary group information. These 2 blog post has a dependency on extending the MOF for client boundary group cache. In this blog post, we will see how to check if the client is…

Check Microsoft office activation status using SCCM Compliance Settings

Posted on September 12, 2019 by Eswar Koneti | 4 Comments | 8,846 Views

I did detailed blog post on 'how to get office 365 proplus activation status' with help of extended MOF file and inventory changes. With this method ,you will get the activation details such as user email address, shared computer activation etc. For more information, please refer http://eskonr.com/2018/10/how-to-get-office-365-proplus-activation-status-and-excluded-apps-etc-using-sccm-configmgr/ . This method requires extension of MOF files…

How to use Configmgr Baseline to check server role or feature installed

Posted on August 22, 2018 by Eswar Koneti | 0 Comments | 3,063 Views

Problem: If you are using qualys or Nessus tool or other tool to detect vulnerabilities on windows machines ,this post might be helpful to you. Recently ,our security team has reported that ,lot of servers are vulnerable for adobe flash player and claiming that, these servers are running lower version of Flash player. When i…

How to change Power Management settings using Configmgr Compliance settings

Posted on November 25, 2017 by Eswar Koneti | 6 Comments | 5,213 Views

I had request to disable the setting ‘Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power’ in power management settings on network adaptor. From the screenshot above,there are 3 settings that will help for wake on Lan .All these settings information stored in client WMI. we want to uncheck the first option (Allow…

ConfigMgr How to use Compliance Settings to check the windows update policy settings like WUServer, UseWUServer,NoAutoUpdate on clients

Posted on October 30, 2017 by Eswar Koneti | 0 Comments | 12,481 Views

When you install configuration manager client to manage any windows device ,it will try to configure local group policy to set WSUS server settings (unless you have no GPO configured to set these settings) .If at all ,you have any GPO to configure the WSUS information ,local GPO that created by configmgr client will…

SCCM Configmgr CI to check server role or feature installed

Posted on April 4, 2017 by Eswar Koneti | 7 Comments | 5,599 Views

In this blog post, we will see how to use compliance item in configuration manager to check specific server role or feature installed on server or not .This request has come up to due to the fact that ,one of the engineer has enabled desktop experience feature on some of the servers which leads to…

SCCM Configmgr how to clean ccmcache content older than x days using compliance settings

Posted on August 18, 2016 by Eswar Koneti | 46 Comments | 65,037 Views

A friend of mine asked for help on, how to clean up the content inside ccmcache folder in a better way instead of using a script to deploy it as application/package/task sequence to devices. I would recommend using compliance settings(configuration item/configuration baseline) to deploy the script on a scheduled basis (monthly once or how you…

SCCM Configmgr 2012 How to get list of VMs running on each Hyper-V server in your environment?

Posted on December 1, 2014 by Eswar Koneti | 6 Comments | 5,366 Views

I got a request asking for "is there a way to find out the VM’s that are configured on each Hyper-V server ,if so ,how to I generate a report with its Base/Host Name and its VMS running on it with its possible VM setting info ". hmm..Getting VM’s that are running on Hyper-V and…