Creating and Searching for Collections

[jamitupya]

Well, after a bit of digging i figured it out.

 

I needed to create a collection for all Windows Server 2008 + R2 Servers however i accidentally created in the wrong place.... what was worse was i couldn't find it...

 

So here we go....

 

 

 

 

how to create a collection:

In this instance i'll be creating a Collection for Windows Server 2008 and R2 called Windows Server OS

 

Since this is already covered and is essentially the same as SCCM 2007 R2, check out the following for creating a collection.

 

 

how to find / locate a collection: (based on name)

 

In the Console, select Assets and Compliance: Select Device Collections:

In the Tasks Selection choose Search Folder: and then Click New

Input a name for your Search Folder (in this case i will be searching for "Windows" so i just used "Windows")

Scroll through the list of properties until you find name. Click Add Selected

 

 

Click <text to find>

 

 

Specify the Condition "contains" and type in the part of the known name of your missing collection

 

Click OK

 

Click OK

 

 

Select your new search folders name in the window and Click OK

 

 

Notice at the top its stating you are now viewing the search folder.

 

 

and there's the elusive collection

[HSChronic]

You think that is bad make a sub collection and try finding that (you have to click on the collection and hit view sub collections, I know that an expand arrow was too much so you couldn't put on in there). The whole way of making and viewing collections in vNext is uber bad right now. Hopefully the next beta will fix that.

[jamitupya]

Yeah, i found that way a bit buggy though. For example, it'd error the console out if more than 1 nested sub-collection and i'd need to do a full system restart to get the console open again :S

 

yeah it'd be to difficult to get an arrow in there wouldn't it :|