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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

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

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

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

In Today’s tutorial, we will learn about the Configuration of Reporting Services Point role in SCCM CB 1702. Before moving ahead, we will throw some lights on to understand the Reporting Services Point Role in SCCM. What is Reporting Services Point Role? A reporting services point integrates with SQL Server Reporting Services to create and manage reports for Configuration Manager. The reporting services point copies report folders and reports to SQL Server Reporting Services, applies the security policy for the reports and folders, and sets configuration settings in Reporting Services. The reporting services point is a site system role that must be configured on a server with Microsoft SQL Server reporting services installed and running. To install and configure follow the below steps. In the Configuration Manager console, Click on Administration, Site Configuration, right click on Sites and click on Add Site System roles. Provide the required details and Click next to continue.