Introduction In an earlier post you installed System Center Configuration Manager (Current Branch), then you learned about configuring discovery. In this post you’ll take a look at configuring Boundaries to understand how automatic site assignment and content location works. What is a Boundary ? In System Center Configuration Manager, a boundary is a network location on the intranet that can contain one or more devices that you want to manage. Boundaries can be based on any of the following and

Update went pretty smoothly for us, but I am seeing this error pop up many times in the logs and haven't found much online... any ideas? Component: SMS_HIERARCHY_MANAGER Microsoft SQL Server reported SQL message 208, severity 16: [42S02][208][Microsoft] [sql Server]Invalid object name 'sys.availability_replicas'. Please refer to your Configuration Manager documentation, SQL Server documentation, or the Microsoft Knowledge Base for further troubleshooting information. Thanks

Microsoft have released yet another Windows 10 build to insiders, details below     With this build, you won’t see big noticeable changes or new features just yet. Right now, the team is focused on product improvements based on the feedback we’re hearing on the November update to Windows 10. This includes the changes that have also been going out as cumulative updates through Windows Update on your PCs running the Windows 10 November Update as well as on phones running Windows 10 too. We’re

Introduction In an earlier post you installed System Center Configuration Manager (Current Branch). In this post you will learn about configuring discovery. Planning for discovery in ConfigMgr is an important step while configuring your sites and hierarchies. You need to discover objects in locations that you select and these discovered resources are what you want to manage (devices/users). These discovered resources can be targeted with software and/or get the ConfigMgr client agent installed

Is it possible for ConfigMgr to determine whether or not a machine is attended or unattended? Attended: One or more users is logged into it, be it physically or via RDP. The machine may be actively being used (e.g.: user is doing something) OR it may just be locked (e.g.: user locked the workstation before going to lunch) Unattended: Machine is powered up and no users are logged into it; Presumably sitting at the login screen. If so, what would the query look like?   There are several poss

Hi everyone,   just a quick and strange bug. I have a captured Windows 10 1511 ENT wim, which is clean except for the removal of a few 'modern' apps (i.e. Xbox etc). This wim is being deployed from SCCM Current Branch and is a really basic task sequence (nothing too complicated going on, just the regular deploy ts). The systems are then being joined to the domain.   After about 30 minutes, the date and time of the system reverts to when the Wim was captures (last Friday). Not only does the s

Hi all, in the summer we updated to 2012 R2 SP2 and everything works great, OSD works fine and I used the new Configuration Manager Client Upgrade Package (v6) pushed out for the setup configmgr step. Recently we just installed CU1 and now I can't get the client to install on desktops during OSD. On laptops without a DVD drive it works fine. On desktops it tries to do some funky stuff with disk D (the dvd drive). I've copied my logs below. Any ideas? Short of just unplugging the dvd during build

We are running several Windows 10 Enterprise build 10240 machines that were deployed using 2012 R2 SP1 CU1 without problems. Now i am running a few of those 10240 W10 machines in a test environment where i have a sccm version 1511 server. What i want to test is the process of upgrading W10 10240 to 10586 (v1511). If i understand it correctly using the "latest and greatest" version of SCCM, i should be able to directly upgrade to 10586 without using task sequence and/or reinstall just like insta