Starting with ConfigMgr Current Branch 1806, you can now enable and deploy Third-party Software Updates from a partner catalog from within ConfigMgr using the existing software update management process. By [...]
Every month when patches come out I have the annoying task of gathering up all of the patches that we will be releasing and sending out an e-mail with the list of all of the patches. Well, while I haven’t [...]
Since the beginning of the year Microsoft has been making numerous changes to updates both before and after patch Tuesday. With all of the changes to patches its hard to know when those changes are made [...]
After completing our production upgrade of ConfigMgr to 1802 I’ve been eagerly awaiting a quiet moment or two to sit down and write a post about the new run scripts feature which has me absolutely [...]
Recently I’ve found myself constantly creating or copying little one or two line PowerShell scripts out of my one note to perform what I perceive as basic client action tasks. Sometimes those tasks [...]
On January 3rd Microsoft released a bunch of security updates around a hardware vulnerability found in the Intel chipset. Within hours of the patch coming out news outlets and more had exploded with information [...]
When working in ConfigMgr I frequently find information in the console is placed in inconvenient or inefficient locations especially when working with large chunks of information. Today I want to talk [...]
If you’ve done any work with System Center Configuration Manager sooner or later, you’ll get asked about leveraging it for patching. It might even be one of the first questions you get from [...]
Over time Software Update Packages (read Deployment Packages, but with a proper name) most of the time are filled with unwanted Software Updates if no regular maintenance is performed, leading to unwanted [...]
As a ConfigMgr administrator, one of the main functionality that many of us are working with is Software Updates. Over time, I’ve eventually decided to automate many of the tasks involved in managing [...]
Ever since I released the console extension for ConfigMgr to clean up Software Update Groups from expired and/or superseded Software Updates, many have given me lots of feedback and I’m now pleased [...]
In a situation where you’ve multiple Software Update Points in the same site spread across different domains where clients in a particular domain cannot access resources in another domain, you’d [...]
A few months ago I created a script that would assist ConfigMgr admins with cleaning up their Software Update Groups from expired and superseded Software Updates. Although this script needed manual interaction [...]
If you’re working with patch management in ConfigMgr 2012, you’ve most likely scratched your head about why there’s no simple way to remove the updates that have been expired or superseded. [...]
During a migration project at one of my customers, we needed to create a few Deployment Packages and wanted to do that with PowerShell. So I imported the ConfigMgr PowerShell module, and to my surprise [...]
With ConfigMgr 2012 SP1 we received a bunch of new cool cmdlets for PowerShell, and as well for the R2 release, that we could use. This post will concentrate on how you can add a Product as search criteria [...]
Using an Automatic Deployment Rule in ConfigMgr 2012 helps automating your Software Update deployments a lot. In the case where you configure the ADR to run at a specific time after Patch Tuesday, lets [...]
So far in this series we’ve talked how to use CMPivot to query online machines in your environment and what you ca...
1806 has a LOT of features and while CMPivot is still early days there are some pretty cool things it can do especially ...
Since the early days of ConfigMgr when it was first named ‘SMS’ there was always this background joke that w...