After upgraded the SCCM server got upgrade to a new version, I found some computer upgrade failed after I used the client push installation. The log file showed the authentication error. A client push installation account must be specified that has administrative rights to the intended client computer. So the task is how to check…
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After I deployed security updates via SCCM server, I found some servers couldn’t find the updates. On the SCCM server console, I also saw some servers have no client installed, but I clearly knew I installed them recently. These servers were virtual machines created by other technician in last 2 or 3 months. I remembered…
System Center Orchestrator runbook can run PowerShell Script and WMI query to manage remote computer. PowerShell Remoting depends on Windows Remote Management (WinRM), which is Microsoft’s implementation of the WS-Management (WS-Man) protocol. The protocol relies on HTTP or HTTPS and uses the TCP ports 5985 and 5986, respectively. WS-Management encrypts all PowerShell communication even if…
System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) is a very popular tool to deploy software updates. Usually I can setup a deadline to force the computer to install software updates then reboot automatically. But I have a unique situation that there is another team need to take a long process which includes many maintenance steps to make…
I have different Device Collections for servers in different AD group. One collection called Server Pilot contains a group of pilot servers. I usually deploy security updates to this collection before we deploy updates to production servers. The membership rule is simple which is to query the AD group and put device in the group into…