Questions tagged [sccm]

Systems Center Configuration Manager is a product by Microsoft that is used to manage the Configuration of multiple Windows-based systems.

SCCM is a Microsoft product that allows the management and deployment of system configuration for Windows-based systems. The most recent version, SCCM 2012 forms part of Microsoft's System Center 2012 software, which aims to help enterprises manage their ITIL practices more effectively.

Functionally, SCCM supports the deployment and configuration of software, update/patch management, AV management and reporting across an estate of Windows-based servers and workstations. It also tightly integrates with other Microsoft server technologies, such as Active Directory.

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SCCM 2012 Full Inventory and Software Query

I need some help with a SCCM 2012 Query (Im not a SQL guy). Im Trying to create a query to include Server Name, Total of Memory, Hard Drive(s) Letter and Space, Boot Up Time and the applications installed on the servers. Here is what I have, is…
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SCCM / WSUS - "Percent Compliant" in All Software Updates

In SCCM 2012 R2 (1511), in Software Library, Software Updates, All Software Updates. If I search and add Criteria for just Windows Server 2012 R2, and Critical patches, The "Percent Compliant" is always very high, in the upper 90s, because it…
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SCCM - How do I increase/decrease the interval time when adding a computer to a device collection?

In SCCM - when I add a computer to the Devices and then to a custom device collection, it takes a long time for it to show up in the Custom Device Collection. Is there a way to manipulate this time? I'm assuming that SCCM is goes through a refresh…
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SCCM Update Storage - Large and duplicated?

Can anyone help me understand why my Update Group Storage is so large? I have enabled dedupe on the volume as a quick fix. Why are my updates making copies every time my update group runs? Specifically, Windows Defender is 33.6 GB (deduped down…
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Updating Dell Bios Silently Through SCCM

I am trying to run an upgrade script through SCCM for Dell Bios Firmware. I need it to run silently without an immediate reboot. When I push the script, the upgrade runs and logs as successful with an exit code of 2 - Reboot Required. However, when…
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SCCM Device Collection Membership based on Machine Variable

I'm not sure if this is quite possible but I'm struggling with writing the WQL query statement that would allow me to have SCCM device collections populate based on a machine variable. Example: Device named "TestVM-01" has a machine variable named…
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How to parse WMIC output in a batch file and compare to an array?

I’m writing a batch script to pull SCCM site codes from SCCM clients. I’d like to pull the clients site code and compare that to an array of site codes. If there is a match then I’ll uninstall the client. I have the uninstall portion. This has to be…
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Obtain a list of computers from SCCM on which a specific software is installed?

I have tried the below procedure to obtain a list of desktops that have software X, version 2.2 installed on them: Device Collections => Create Device Collection => named it "Computers with X v2.2 installed=> Query Rule Properties => Edit Query…
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In Deployment Monitoring Tool, why do I receive the message "DT cannot be empty" when clicking on a specific deployment?

When clicking on the top deployment in the screenshot below, the message "DT cannot be empty" is displayed and the Deployment Monitoring Tool closes. Clicking on other deployments shows the expected information in the info pane. I have not been…
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OSD set the computername based on the serialnumber for a Surface Pro 4

I'm trying to set the computername for a Surface Pro 4 based on the serialnumber. I added the variable to my CustomSetting file as follow : ComputerName=MTLSP%SerialNumber%, but my task sequence fails when it comes to assign the name. Am I missing…
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Run an .exe as detection method SCCM

I need to detect if an application is already installed in sccm. i have searched that i can use a custom script that does de test and returns the status of the installation depending on the exit-code of the script. I have and .exe that does this…
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Determining optimal maintenance windows for end-user system patching

What would be good information to use in order to identify and report on times when the highest number of transient end-user systems such as laptops are connected to the network? Available to me is event log information from the following systems:…
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Stop sccm task sequence deployment

I have deployed a 15 Mb application through SCCM to 10000 machines and its killing the network. Who can i stop the deployment of this task sequence. I have deleted the task sequence but the network throughput high.
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Deploying Java via Configuration Manager / SCCM / SMS

So my package is working. Problem is, it doesn't uninstall the old version during the install. If I run the install on the local system it works fine. Here is the command line I'm using: jre-6u16-windows-i586-s.exe /quiet
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SCCM 2012 | Collection does not list the member added Directly

In the Morning in SCCM 2012, I observed HourGlass on the collection after adding members for almost 3 hours. The collection was not updating. I removed the members and deleted the collection. I have directly added two active computers to collection…
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