Here’s a simple tip to know which SCCM server logs files to check if you want to dig an error returned by an SCCM Component. In SCCM, client and site server components record process information in individual SCCM log files. You can use the information in these log files to help you troubleshoot issues that might occur. The default path to find the SCCM server logs files is in your SCCM Installation Directory\Logs. If you’ve used the default installation directory, it will be located in C:\Program Files\Microsoft Configuration Manager\Logs. The problem is that when opening this directory, you’ll find dozens … Read More
Getting started with SCCM Powershell cmdlet
You can run SCCM Powershell cmdlet and scripts from the SCCM console or from a Windows PowerShell session. This is very useful to do stuff in SCCM without using the console. You can do pretty much anything using Powershell. When you get used to it, you can write more complex scripts to automate and save lots of time. Supported versions of SCCM’s current branch support Windows PowerShell version 5.1. Starting in version 2010, the Configuration Manager PowerShell cmdlet library supports PowerShell 7. If you’re not familiar with PowerShell and SCCM, the easiest way to connect to your site is to … Read More
Step-by-Step SCCM 2111 Upgrade Guide
Microsoft has released a third SCCM version for 2021. SCCM 2111 has been released on August 2nd, 2021. Don’t forget SCCM has had a new branding since 1910 – now called Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager (MEMCM). This post is a complete step-by-step SCCM 2111 upgrade guide, meaning that if you want to upgrade your existing SCCM/MEMCM installation to the latest SCCM/MEMCM updates, this post is for you. If you’re looking for a comprehensive SCCM installation guide to build a new server, refer to our blog series which covers it all. You won’t be able to install SCCM 2111 if you are … Read More
Create Operational SCCM collection using PowerShell script
Using Powershell you can do many things in SCCM. Over the years, in many SCCM consulting projects that we got involved in, we get the same question: “Can you create SCCM collections for Servers, Laptops, Workstations, Windows 10…”. Back in 2015, I started to build an SCCM collection PowerShell script to create these operational collections that I create right after we do an SCCM installation. With time, I added more and more collections to the script. Today, the script contains more than 130 collections and has been downloaded more than 60 000 times making this my most downloaded contribution to the community. … Read More
SCCM Client Version and Cumulative Update List
We compile a list of SCCM client version, build numbers and cumulative updates since the 2012 RTM release. SCCM Upgrades are released 3-4 times a year. After an SCCM Upgrade, it’s important to upgrade your SCCM Client version to the latest version. Cumulative updates are cumulative, meaning that the latest one includes the previous one. (Ex: You don’t need to apply CU1 if you plan to install CU2) Once you apply a cumulative update, your SCCM version on the site server itself will not change. The site server will show the latest major SCCM release (RTM,SP1,R2). However, the new SCCM version … Read More
Deploy Windows 10 21H2 using SCCM / MEMCM
This blog post will cover all the tasks needed to deploy the new SCCM Windows 10 21H2 Upgrade. We will cover scenarios for new and existing computers that you may want to upgrade. Microsoft published the Windows 10 21H2 feature update on VLSC on November 16th 2021. You may also need to deploy Windows 10 21H2 to your existing Windows 10 computer to stay supported or to benefit from the new features. There’s a couple of important change in this release. Here are the main support and deployment features : If you have devices running Windows 10, version 2004 or … Read More
SCCM Must Have Tools and blog – 2021 Edition
Based on the popularity of my previous post published in 2018 , 2019 and 2020, I decided to do a 2021 refresh of the SCCM Must have Tools and blog list since there’s always new stuff coming out. To the list of SCCM Must have Tools, I added must-have read blog posts that you could have missed this year. The tools are listed in no particular order. The list could have been longer but I needed to choose from my top personal list. If you feel that I’ve forgotten your awesome contribution to the SCCM community, please use the comment … Read More
Creating an SCCM report viewer role
In many SCCM environments, we see administrators that want to give access to the SCCM reporting node only. Unfortunately, there’s no SCCM Report Viewer role when you browse to the Security role of the console. So … What if you want to give a user the right to only run reports? This blog post will show how to create an SCCM report viewer role in the console. A simple way to do this is to grant access to the Read-only Analyst role which will be enough to run a report but maybe you don’t want them to see all nodes … Read More
Use SCCM External Notification to trigger Microsoft Teams message
Following a blog post on receiving an email after an operating system deployment completes, I received a friendly tip to try replicating the behavior using the new External notifications feature available since SCCM 2107. Challenge accepted! Beginning with SCCM 2107, you can enable the site to send notifications to an external system. You can use Azure Logic Apps to configure subscriptions to send these notifications. These notifications can be based on SCCM events like status message filter rules. In the previous post, we were using status message filter rules to trigger a Powershell script. In this blog post, we’ll be using the … Read More
Send an Email when SCCM OSD Completes a Deployment
When deploying an operating system with SCCM / MEMCM, monitoring your deployment is crucial. You can use reports in a more dynamic way. Imagine receiving an email saying “Hey your deployment is complete. The computer can be delivered to the client”. SCCM can send an email based on a specific status message generated by the site server. And this is exactly what will be done in this blog post. SCCM records everything action in Status Messages. You are probably familiar with the tons server logs files but SCCM also records everything on the site server itself. A quick look at … Read More