An area that is hard for IT admins to get feedback is how Office is doing in their environment. Unless users call in for support, there is not much more information easily available. A less known Office feature is available for free as part of the Office suite. The Office Telemetry Dashboard can help assess all kind of compatibility issues that could happen as part of a major upgrade and help to identify the potential risk ahead of an upgrade. The Office Telemetry dashboard was first introduced with Office 2013. It was released to replace the previous solution Office Migration Planning Manager (OMPM). The Office telemetry could be used in the following scenarios : Planning a major upgrade to Office 2016 from older versions Monitor your Semi-Annual Channel (Targeted) installations as they received newer major build ahead of the Semi-annual Channel In this post, we will describe how to plan, install … Read More
How to install and configure SCCM Power BI Dashboard
Last September, the Power BI solution template for System Center Configuration Manager was released. The SCCM Power BI Dashboard provides detailed information of your SCCM hierarchy including client and server health, malware protection, software updates, and software inventory. Better late than never, we decided to do a blog post on how to link your SCCM server to Power BI and install the SCCM Power BI Dashboard. The SCCM Dashboard will show data as soon as you finish this wizard. You’ll also be able to build your own Power BI reports and publish it if you have a valid Power BI license. If you are not familiar with Power BI, you can read the FAQ which has answers to the most common questions. SCCM Power BI Dashboard System Requirements SCCM 2012 R2 SP1 (5.00.8239.1000) or later An account with Read access to SCCM database is required Destination database: Azure SQL database … Read More
SCCM Office 365 Client Management Dashboard Overview
Starting in SCCM 1610, you can use the new Office 365 Client Management dashboard from the Configuration Manager console. This is the fourth dashboard since the Current Branch release which is a great effort from the product group to give better visibility on the data gathered by your Configuration Manager clients. We already made an overview of the Windows 10 Servicing dashboard and the Software Update dashboard if you’re interested to read that out. You can also refer to our post about managing Office 365 Updates with SCCM and our free Office 365 report if want complete information about how to deploy and inventory Office 365 in your environment. SCCM Office 365 Client Management Dashboard Overview To open the dashboard : Open the SCCM console Go to Software Library / Office 365 Client Management The dashboard displays charts for the following: Number of Office 365 clients Office 365 client versions Office 365 client languages Office 365 client channels You … Read More