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Installing Pull Distribution Point in SCCM 2012 R2

In this guide, we will learn how to install Pull Distribution Point in SCCM 2012 R2, before that we will put some lights to understand what is Pull DP. Microsoft System Center 2012 Configuration Manager SP1 introduces a new type of distribution point called a pull distribution point. By configuring pull DP instead of having to get the content from the primary site, a distribution point can pull the content from the nearest distribution point. Pull distribution points still allow you to specify where each distribution point resides in the hierarchy but also gives you the flexibility of defining the source distribution point. The result also allows you to overcome the previous limitation of a maximum of 250 distribution points and helps reduce the load of content distribution on primary sites. Follow the below steps to perform the installation of Pull DP. In Configuration Manager Console, Select the Administration Workspace, Site Configuration, right click on sites and then select Crea

Strikethrough in a excel cell

In today’s guide, we will learn about how to strikethrough in an excel cell, to do so please follow the below steps. Open an Excel sheet and type the text you want to strikethrough as below in cell. Right click on the select cell as below and click on format cells. In format cells window, click on Font Tab and check the box for Strikethrough in effects and click on ok as shown in below picture. Here you go the result will be as below. Thank you and Keep Learning ☺ Please do comment if any clarification.

Discovery Methods in System Center Configuration Manager 1706 CB

In Today’s tutorial, we learn about the discovery methods in System center configuration manager. We have below discovery methods in System Center Configuration Manager. - Active Directory Forest Discovery - Active Directory Group Discovery - Active Directory System Discovery - Active Directory User Discovery - Heartbeat Discovery - Network Discovery Active Directory Forest Discovery By enabling Active Directory Forest Discovery, we can find resources from AD forests. When you configure the forests to discover AD sites and subnets, configuration manager can automatically create boundaries from this information. Active Directory Group Discovery By enabling Active Directory Group Discovery, we can discover the resources using AD group membership of computers and users. Active Directory System Discovery By enabling Active Directory System Discovery, we can find the computers in Active Directory Domain Services. Active Directory User Discovery By enablin

Installing Current Branch 1706 update to System Center Configuration Manager

In today’s tutorial, we will learn about Installing Current Branch 1706 update of System Center Configuration Manager. We have so many new features in 1706 update, to learn more about the features click here . To install update 1706, we need to follow the below steps, Currently I am having SCCM Current branch version 1702, so that we can directly update the 1706 from Updates and Servicing node from Configuration Manager console. To get the Latest update in Updates and Servicing node, seems we need to run the below PowerShell Script. For PowerShell script click here . After running the above script, Click on Administration -> Overview-> click on Updates and Servicing node and you can see the update listed as below in the console. Right click on the update, click on download to proceed further. And you can monitor the status in dpmdownloader.log. After successful download of update, you can see the status as Ready to Install in Updates and Servicing node as shown b

Installing Endpoint Protection Role in SCCM Current Branch 1702

In this tutorial, we will learn about Installing Endpoint Protection Role in SCCM Current Branch 1702. Below are the few things about Endpoint protection role. - A site system role that serve as an Endpoint Protection Point. - Using Endpoint protection role we can deploy the System center endpoint protection client in all the managed servers and we can keep up the definitions up to date on the server using this role. Follow the below steps to Install Endpoint Protection Role in SCCM Current Branch 1702. In the Configuration Manager console, Click on Administration, Site Configuration, right click on Sites and click on Add Site System roles. In Add Site System Roles Wizard, General Screen click next to proceed further. In Add Site System Roles Wizard, Proxy Screen click next to proceed further. Select Endpoint Protection Point role, and click ok on the popup to continue. In Add Site System Roles Wizard, Endpoint Protection Screen, check the box to accept the

Deploying Software Updates in SCCM Current Branch 1702

In this tutorial, we will learn about Deploying software updates from SCCM CB 1702. Follow the below steps to proceed further. In Configuration Manager Console, click on Software library, expand Software Updates, click on All Software Updates, below screenshot for your reference. After clicking All Software Updates, in Results pane you will see all the software updates as below. The first step in deployment is Creating Software Update Groups . Before proceeding we will filter the updates per our requirement (In this example I am going to deploy Windows Malicious software removal tool). To filter click on Add Criteria as shown in below screenshot. Here I am adding product as a criterion and selecting Windows Server 2016 as product. Select all the updates which you are going to deploy and right click on them and select Create Software Update Group as shown in below screen. Provide the Software Update Group and Description and click on Create to proceed with. To find the S