Cause Due to an Azure service outage affecting Azure Automation; automation jobs were not running on a Hybrid Worker and going to a failed state or hanging. The issue was raised with Microsoft, who advised us to remove a certificate from the Microsoft Monitoring Agent store. However, this was before they were fully aware of […]
Managing users and devices is always fun; a major challenge for me was always assigning assets without unnecessarily purchasing or depleting the device stock. An unused or under utilised device in an organisation can potentially be money down the drain. As configMgr admins, we have the data already to determine whats inactive and potentially reusable devices […]
The ConfigMgr Dashboards Died what happened?! Following Microsoft’s announcement changing the service periods for Windows 10 to 30 months; it looks like the amendments to the Windows life-cycle fact sheet has broken the Power BI ConfigMgr Current Branch Dashboard. RIP OS Support Life Cycle Page… For Now This change unfortunately means that sadly the […]
This month we ended up moving one of our offices into a new building. Of course, there are many elements that go into moving a building with local IT infrastructure. In this case, one thing that had to be done was moving the devices to a new Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager Server (DPM). […]
Within Configuration Manager (ConfigMgr), you can use Discovery Methods to get data about your devices. When a device is successfully discovered it creates a Data Discovery Records (DDRs) file. The DDR then stores all the information about the Device in your ConfigMgr database. DDRs can be useful for adding extra data which you wish to […]
Yo! It’s been a busy month around PowerON and the The DevOps Hub for me; I’ve been working on or getting some improvements to the dashboard and addressing some issues along the way. With this in mind, here is the update for the Power BI – ConfigMgr Current Branch Dashboard 1806 🙂 Power BI – […]
I remember when I first started in ConfigMgr, I wasn’t sure how to easily create ConfigMgr query collections. Being able to create the collections for yourself, your team or management needs comes in very helpful. When reading the forums and other feeds I see people ask, “how to make a query for X?” The quick […]
I recently released my latest Configuration Manager Power BI current branch dashboard with PowerON last month; The ConfigMgr devices SQL query is something I’d thought I generally share as really useful. This SQL query contains the majority of the columns you’ll need to get you going from Device OS, Chassis Types, AD site, IP addresses […]
There are some excellent Excel based ConfigMgr sizing tools out there. I recently had a design request for estimating SQL sizing via PowerShell. The function I created Returns disk capacity and file estimates for: • SQL DB’s • SQL Log’s • SQL Temp The Get-CMDBSizingEstimate function is pretty simple to use. You can pass the […]
Today I want to share a quick ConfigMgr tip. A lot of administrators I have worked with ask how to create collections based on the compliance of a Configuration Baseline. Normally I see them trying to work it out manually. If that is you, stop and don’t panic. There is an easier way straight from […]
