Category: Collection

  • ConfigMgr 1602 – All devices are part of the same server cluster

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    Hi folks, we are on the way, it will finally happen: We will be able to serve Clusters with System Center Configuration Manager and it’s update functionality. With the new released current branch 1602, a new feature called server cluster maintenance coordination was added to ConfigMgr, it comes close to a Cluster Aware updating solution.…

  • ConfigMgr – Create Device Collections based on Windows 10 Build

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    Hey, You might come to the same spot, where you would like to split your Windows 10 devices into different collections based on the Windows 10 Version. I will show to you, how easy you can achieve that, but let me say first, that this could be implemented from Microsoft Out-Of-The-Box. If you are using…

  • Quickpost – Powershell One-Liner to determine Incremental Update collections

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    Hi, here’s Martin with a tiny Powershell One-Liner to measure, how many collection are in System Center 2012 Configuration Manager configured with the “Use incremental updates for this collection” option. Just use: @(Get-CMDeviceCollection | where{$_.refreshtype -eq 4 -or $_.refreshtype -eq 6}).count Hope this helps

  • SCCM 2012 – RBAC: Add computer to SCCM

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    Hey, here’s Martin again. You often come across to the requirement, that you have give access to users to the System Center 2012 Configuration Manager Console, that they can add new Computers to the Hierarchy to stage them with a Task Sequence. They only have to add them to a specific collection, nothing more: with Role…

  • SCCM 2012 – Reboot after Installation in Maintenance Window

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    When you patch your Server automatically, and also want to reboot the machines when a maintenance window is active, that is quite easy. Modify the Settings of the specific collection, I would recommend to use collections created for the use of maintenance window only, in this example, we have a short window of 45 minutes:

  • SCCM 2012 SP1 – Remove Client from Collection after OSD

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    Times are changing, so are our scripts. I can’t tell you how often I used this VB-Script http://ccmexec.com/2012/07/remove-from-collection-and-clear-pxe-flag-vbscript-using-status-filter-rule/ , but I think now, the new cmdlets for powershell are more comfortable. So I decided to change my auto-remove to a powershell script.

  • SCCM 2012 SP1 – Task Sequence Collection variables not applied

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    Recently I set up my lab with the brandnew SP1, so I decided to go everthing on 2012, as it is supported since SP1 to use SQL Server 2012 as database backend. So I installed two Windows Server 2012, one with SQL Server 2012 and one with SCCM 2012 SP1. After all was running fine,…