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Category: Systems Center Suite
SCCM 2012 R2 – Incremental Update Collections and how to find them.
The Problem: There is something about SCCM changing from SMS to SCCM that makes people think the old maxim – “Slow Moving Software” no longer applies. Combine this with the desire for “I want it now” and you end up with a bunch of device collections where the “Incremental Updates” feature is turned on. “But ...
SCCM 2012R2 – My Clients aren’t getting a deployment.
The Question: Recently during some other unfortunate SCCM shenanigans someone brought up the fun problem where they thought that software was randomly hit or miss deploying to machines in a collection. They even thought in some cases the software was installing but not reporting back that it had installed. Now reading that last sentence I’m ...
Visio 2010/2013 Client Server Version Error in SCOM 2012R2 Visio Drawings
The Question: “Wouldn’t it be awesome if we could create pretty Visio Drawings of our systems for the customers to look at and see up-time of servers using SCOM Data?” Well turns out in fact you can do this! It’s a feature it’s been around in SCOM for quite some time. However it’s not exactly ...