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 […]
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 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 […]
You may have found yourself in a situation where you need to set up a System Center Configuration Manager (ConfigMgr) Software Update Management Strategy. For example, you are tasked to set up a phased approach to deploying Windows updates to your Windows 10 devices. When you first start looking at this, it can seem like […]
