Category: System Centre
Had a rare fresh SCCM install recently with a client that has more of a security focus than many of our other clients. Had SCCM 2002 (current at time of writing), Server 2019, SQL 2017 and Reporting services 2017. Reporting services is using the default, "virtual service account", which, under the covers, is "NT Service\SQLReportingServices"…
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There are plenty of ways to randomly add systems to a collection in SCCM, a common query being something similar to select SMS_R_System.Name from SMS_R_System where SMS_R_System.SMSUniqueIdentifier like "%0" OR SMS_R_System.SMSUniqueIdentifier like "%1" In a recent instance, i needed to ensure that systems were randomly chosen for a product roll out across a 1500-ish servers…
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There seems to be a great deal of mis-information about this floating around the web.... despite articles like this that lay it out quite well. When you create an SCCM antimalware policy, the settings do merge. You do not have to create bucketloads of policies and apply/re-apply the same settings over and over and over…
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A few years back - an (ex) employee posted on the Adexis blog about the fun of Surface laptops and deployment in SCCM https://blog.adexis.com.au/2018/04/09/microsoft-surface-laptops-and-sccm-os-deployment/#comment-1478 Personally, i've deployed a lot of Surface Pro 3's and 4's.... but not so much after that.... until now. During the week i was called into a client to find out…
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New Edge, Credge, Edgium or Credgium - no matter what you call it, the Edge browser based on chromium was released on Jan 15th 2020. To deploy the new versions using SCCM 1910 (or above) Add "Microsoft Edge" a product that is sync'ed in your software update point component properties Somewhat confusingly, the product is…
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Ok, so, before the flood of hate comes my way Yes, its 2020, you should not be running Server 2008 R2 or Windows 7...... but the (unfortunate) reality is that many places still are Even if you are running them, they should be fully patched! "Patches break applications".... mostly bullshit.... it does happen... but happens…
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One of the banes of many SCCM admins existence is reporting. Some SCCM people are SQL guns, others, like me, know what they need to to get by, but a strong SQL understanding - that just isn't me (and i know i'm not alone!). One of the key things with SCCM reports, and something that…
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Ran into this fun one today, admittedly it was in my dev environment and is not a common scenario for our clients, which usually have much larger networks and network segments. Trying to install the ConfigMgr client, via client push or manually, fails with the below error repeating in ccmsetup.log Download Update: A recoverable error…
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Microsoft Endpoint Manager - announced at Ignite - https://redmondmag.com/articles/2019/11/04/microsoft-endpoint-manager.aspx There's a lot of words in the announcement that don't mean much.... but it is an indication of how MS plan to move forward in this space. As it stands, the SCCM/Intune integration attempts have ranged from pretty bad to OK.... it will be interesting to…
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SCCM 1906 released! - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sccm/core/plan-design/changes/whats-new-in-version-1906 If you want it right now - you can opt-in via the fast ring script - https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=2099733 Another belting release from the SCCM team - while some releases have different focuses over time - generally releases have tended to have something which makes day-to-day admin life a bit easier for…
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