This week I’m back in Configuration Manager again. More specifically, I’m going to look at Management Insights that is introduced with the release of Configuration Manager, version 1802. Management Insights provides information about the current state of the environment. The information is based on analysis of data from the site database and will better understanding the state of the environment and. It also provides additional information to take action based on the insight. In this post I’ll show the different insights and were to find the information that is used for the insight.
Management Insights
Let’s go through the different insights. I’ll do that by first providing the step to get to the available insights, followed by more information per Management Insight Group Name. As the insights are all based on analyses of data from the database, the information that I provide includes the stored procedure that does the analyses. That should give an additional insight of why the information is as it is displayed. To get to the Management Insights simply follow the next step.
| 1 | Open the Configuration Manager administration console and navigate to Administration > Overview > Management Insights > All Insights; |
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Management Insight: Applications
The first management insight group is Applications. Below is an overview of the rules that are part of this group. That overview includes a description about the rules and the stored procedure that is used to gather the information from the database.
| Rule: Applications without deployments |
| Description: Lists the applications in your environment that do not have active deployments. This helps you find and delete unused applications to simplify the list of applications displayed in the console. |
| Stored procedure: MI_ApplicationsNotDeployed |
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Management Insight: Cloud Services
The second management insight group is Cloud Servers. Below is an overview of the rules that are part of this group. That overview includes a description about the rules and the stored procedure that is used to gather the information from the database.
| Rule: Access co-management readiness |
| Description: Co-management is a solution that provides a bridge from traditional to modern management. Co-management gives you a path to make the transition using a phased approach. This rule helps you understand what steps are necessary to enable co-management. |
| Stored procedure: MI_EnableCoMgmt |
| Rule: Configure Azure services for user with Configuration Manager |
| Description: This rule helps you onboard Configuration Manager to Azure AD. Onboarding to cloud services creates the server web app and the native client app in Azure AD for Configuration Manager. This enables clients to authenticate with Configuration Manager site using Azure AD. When Azure services configuration is complete, the rule will turn green. |
| Stored procedure: MI_EnableAAD |
| Rule: Enable devices to be hybrid Azure Active Directory joined |
| Description: Modernize identity on your devices by extending your domain-joined devices to Azure Active Directory (Azure AD). Hybrid Azure AD-joined devices allow users to sign in with their domain credentials while ensuring devices meet the organization’s security and compliance standards. This rule helps identify if there are any hybrid Azure AD-joined devices in your environment. If the rule detects any such devices, it turns green. |
| Stored procedure: MI_DJPlus |
| Rule: Update clients to the latest Windows 10 version |
| Description: Update Windows 10 devices to the latest version to improve and modernize the computing experience for users. This rule detects if there are any Windows 10 version 1709 or later devices in your environment. If the rule detects any such devices, it turns green. |
| Stored procedure: MI_UpgradeToRS3 |
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Management Insight: Collections
The third management insight group is Collections. Below is an overview of the rules that are part of this group. That overview includes a description about the rules and the stored procedure that is used to gather the information from the database.
| Rule: Empty Collections |
| Description: List the collections in your environment that have no members. You can delete these collections to simplify the list of collections displayed when deploying objects, for example. |
| Stored procedure: MI_EmptyCollections |
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Management Insight: Simplified Management
The fourth management insight group is Simplified Management. Below is an overview of the rules that are part of this group. That overview includes a description about the rules and the stored procedure that is used to gather the information from the database.
| Rule: Non-CB Client Versions |
| Description: This lists all clients running client versions from ConfigMgr builds before Current Branch. |
| Stored procedure: MI_OutdatedClientVersion |
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Management Insight: Software Center
The fifth management insight group is Software Center. Below is an overview of the rules that are part of this group. That overview includes a description about the rules and the stored procedure that is used to gather the information from the database.
| Rule: Direct your users to Software Center instead of Application Catalog |
| Description: This rule checks if any users installed or requested applications from the Application Catalog in the last 14 days. The primary functionality of the Application Catalog is now included in Software Center. Support for the Application Catalog web site ends with the first update released after June 1, 2018. Update any end-user documentation and shortcuts to use Software Center. |
| Stored procedure: MI_App_AppCatalogUsage |
| Rule: Use the new version of Software Center |
| Description: Software Center has a new, modern look. The previous version of Software Center is no longer supported. Set up clients to use the new Software Center by enabling the client setting. Computer Agent > Use new Software Center. |
| Stored procedure: MI_App_NewSoftwareCenter |
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Management Insight: Windows 10
The documentation also shows a sixth management insight group, named Windows 10, that contains two rules (Configure Windows telemetry and commercial ID key and Connect Configuration Manager to Upgrade Readiness). This group and rules are not available in my environment, yet, but the stored procedures are already available (MI_TelAndCommercialId and MI_AnalyticsOnboarded).
More information
For more information about Management Insights, refer to this article named Management Insights in System Center Configuration Manager.