Collections

Just Released: Import Computer Form v0.7

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Today I released a public version of my Import Computer Form. Many has been written about scripts to Import Computer Information in ConfigMgr 2012, via PowerShell, but there was never a worked-out example (like all the different HTA’s there where for the previous version). That’s why I thought it would be nice to post an example form to just simply Import Computer Information in ConfigMgr 2012. Again, like with my Approval Manager, I did NOT use the PowerShell Cmdlets for ConfigMgr 2012, but just PowerShell to WMI. The main reason for that is, still the same, that using WMI, via PowerShell, is much friendlier for remote usage. Import Computer Form This public version gives the user the possibility to perform the following actions, without the …

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Quickly catch Active Directory Group Membership changes in ConfigMgr 2012

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This week my post will be about catching Active Directory Group Membership changes. I choose this subject, because I still see and get questions about how long does it take before a group membership change is active in a collection. The short answer would be, based on default settings, between 1 till 10 minutes. In the rest of this post I will show a longer answer on why it’s like that. The main reasons are that the Delta Discovery and the Incremental Updates are working now. Configuration The most important part to quickly catch Active Directory Group Membership changes, is a good configuration. For that two configurations are very important, the Active Directory Group Discovery and the collection settings. To show how, and how fast, …

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Configuring Collection Membership Evaluation in ConfigMgr 2012

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The title for this small post sounds like a huge configuration, but it’s not. It’s just one setting. In this post I will show how to change it and, maybe more important, what it does. In ConfigMgr 2012 every collection has a checkbox Use incremental updates for this collection. This option is to periodically scan for only new or changed resources from the previous collection evaluation and update the collection membership with only these resources. This is what in ConfigMgr 2007 R3 was called Dynamically add new resources. The biggest difference is that now the interval can be configured. Configure To configure the interval navigate to Administration > Overview > Site Configuration > Sites. Now select the Site and click Settings > Configure Site Components …

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A collection of changes to the Collections in ConfigMgr 2012 B2

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In this post I will try to give an overview of the changes made to the Collections in ConfigMgr 2012. The first notable changes in the Assets and Compliance workspace are: The Collections are now divided in User Collections and Device Collections. It’s now not possible anymore to have users and computers in one Collection. It will always be an User Collection OR a Device Collection. The standard Collections are now limited till, All User Groups, All Users, All Users and User Groups, All Desktop and Server Clients, All Mobile Devices, All Systems and All Unknown Computers. Both, the All Users and User Groups –and  the All Systems –Collections, are not editable. These Collections are used as the base for all of the other Collections. …

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