System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) uses collection evaluation to update membership based on defined rules. While full updates run on schedules, incremental collection evaluation allows faster updates without waiting for […]
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A Configuration Manager maintenance windows restrict the deployments on SCCM client during specified timeframe. The SCCM Maintenance Windows ensure that client configuration changes occur during specified time frame only and that don’t affect productivity. A maintenance window can be configured with an effective date, a start and end time, and a recurrence pattern.
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Compliance Settings are business or technical conditions to assess compliance of a device. There may be a requirement to quickly identify compliant or non compliant devices to perform quick troubleshooting
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Troubleshooting software update deployments in ConfigMgr often requires checking whether Software Center business hours are correctly configured. While it’s easy to verify on a local machine, doing the same on
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You may have a requirement to reboot SCCM client computers which have not been rebooted for n number of days. This process can be used to schedule a reboot using PowerShell script deployed as SCCM application. The PowerShell script will check if machine was rebooted in last n number of days. If not it will return exit code 3010 instructing SCCM client agent that a soft reboot is required.
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The SMS_AppDeploymentAssetDetails Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) class is an SMS Provider server class in Configuration Manager that represents asset-level details about the deployment. The properties of SMS_AppDeploymentAssetDetails class can be used to
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Win32_OptionalFeature WMI class represents the status of the optional features that are present on the operating system. In ConfigMgr, this class is represented by Server side WMI class SMS_G_System_OPTIONAL_FEATURE. This
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SCCM collect software information from client using different methods such as Software inventory , software file scan, and hardware inventory. These information can be used to create dynamic collection for devices.
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SCCM Computer hardware classes can be used to create dynamic query based device collection. There are different classes such as Computer System , PC_BIOS , System Enclosure , TPM etc which can be used for queries. A collection or query created in Configuration Manager uses WMI Query Language (WQL) to request objects from the SMS Provider WMI Schema, which in turn retrieves the data from site database.
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SCCM collects operating system details from client as part of inventory. We can create SCCM collection based on operating system attribute class such as OS Name, Build or version number, OS architecture, OS last reboot time and many more such attributes.
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