The installation of SCCM 2012 console can be either manually or automatically. Manual installation remains a good choice if you have a small team. Using role-based access control in SCCM 2012, you can delegate administrative tasks to your team and allow more users with different level of access to the SCCM 2012 console. At this point, you would rather go the automatic way. This post will explain you how to save time by using the Application Model in SCCM 2012 to automatically deploy the console to all your devices. We won’t cover the pre-requisites needed to install the SCCM 2012 console on a device. Make sure your devices are compliant. Step 1 | Create a Collection To regroup all the devices of users that will be using the console, there’s two possible types of collection to trigger the installation, either user or device collection. Users Create a user collection if your goal … Read More
Configuring SCCM 2012 Intune Integration
Download and own all parts of the blog series in a single PDF file. Use our products page or use the download button below. This blog post won’t be updated, only the document will be. [purchase_link id=”3885″ style=”button” color=”gray” text=”Add to Cart | Mobile Device Management guide” price=”yes”] In Part 1 of this series, we prepared the Intune environment for mobile device management. We also make sure we got the Intune subscription account. In Part 2, we configured Active Directory and create users in Intune. In Part 3, we will prepare our Configuration Manager server in order to link it to Intune using the SCCM connector. This will allow Configuration Manager and Intune to sync data. There’s 3 main steps to do so : Create Configuration Manager Collection Create the Windows Intune subscription in the console Add the Windows Intune Connector Site System Role Create SCCM Collection We need to create a new collection that contains users that will be … Read More
PowerShell Script to delete Collections older than X Days under Specific Folder
Did you ever wanted to delete a bunch of collections older than x days under specific folder name? I recently needed to clean collections older than 7 days under specific folders. The reason was simple, I came across a situation where the company own a custom package deployment solution and it create a collection each time a deployment is made. Since they are all limited collections, you can imagine the load it can create for the collection evaluator. The best solution would be to delete the collection as soon the deployment is succeeded, some internal politics prevents us to do that. Instead of doing it one by one, I decided to create an automate PowerShell script that run each week. The PowerShell script create a small report in a text file including the list of collections ID deleted. The file will be sent by email as an attachment and will be … Read More