June month updates has been released by Microsoft. Did you guys faced any issues with Windows 10 KB5003637? If yes, you are in right page. Now microsoft is releasing windows SSUs and Latest cumulative updates together with one cumulative update Issue June month cumulative update KB5003637 has a prerequisite update,that is May 2021 cumulative update KB5003173. You must install KB5003173 before installing the latest CU Supersedence Rule Suppose if you have selected immediately expire a superseded software update in SUP, KB5003173 will be removed from sccm. So if those machines which is not insta ..read more

In this post we will learn deleting computers from sccm console. Recently we have got a request from customer to delete 500+ machines from sccm. So we have created a script to delete bulk machines from SCCM SCRIPT <# This script will read notepad file for client computers,check if they exist and remove from SCCM .#># Determine script location and create log file to store the results$ScriptDir = Split-Path $script:MyInvocation.MyCommand.Path$log = "$ScriptDir\clientremoval.log"$date = Get-Date -Format "dd-MM-yyyy hh:mm:ss""--------------------- Script executed on $date (dd-MM ..read more

In this post we will learn how to use SCCM SCRIPT option for triggering software updates remotely Installing software updates is mandatory for most of the customers for security. While we deploy software updates, some of the clients will be in enforcement state unknown or non compliance Using SCRIPT option in sccm, we can trigger the software updates remotely. Here will use Powershell script to trigger the installation. This script will check if any updates are available in software Center but failed or maintenance window or could be other reason. Then script will trigger the installation How ..read more

We have got lot query for Bitlocker management (MBAM). Most of the companies are opting for bitlocker manager for their security purpose so its inevitable to learn more about how to Manage Bitlocker. This artcle is written behalf of our contributer Mr. Parag Morye. So let’s have some interesting info about bitlocker integration or management with SCCM/MEMCM. TABLE OF CONTENTS 1      Overview 2      Prerequisites 3      How to Create BitLocker Management Policy 3.1       Enable BitLocker Man ..read more

In this blog we are going to explain what is PXE Boot and how to configure PXE in system center INTRODUCTION Recently one of our customers requested us to do windows 8 OS deployment for a set of machines. So we are planning to do PXE configuration for OS deployment in the SCCM distribution point. As per the request, we have configured PXE in sccm. I was thinking why can’t I document it so that it would be helpful for newbies. We are going to show how to configure PXE in sccm environment Enabling PXE in SCCM environment which enable us to deploy operating system in the environment. Enabling PXE ..read more

At times you may need to open and manage your Windows Services. You may want to stop some service, start it, disable the service, delay its start-up or resume or pause the Windows Service. At such time, the Service Manager, which is a build-in tool in the Windows operating system, will help you. But sometime services go to hung mode and we can’t restart it. This post will show you how to restart the service which is in hung mode using command prompt as well as PowerShell script to restart set of services in given list of machines. Windows Services are applications that typically start whe ..read more

INTRODUCTION What do you mean by SCCM Device Collections? Device Collections are a group of devices or machines, it can use be used for various tasks like managing applications, software updates and deploying compliance settings. We have various ways of creating a collection based on our requirements and to the needs. In SCCM we have different types of rules that we can apply to create collections as per our requirements. We have five types and listed as below. 》Direct rule 》Query rule 》Device category rule 》Include collection rule 》Exclude collection rule In this post we will be looking onto ..read more

INTRODUCTION Hello everyone, today we will discuss one simple and interesting issue. Every month we will update all customer’s servers. Earlier this month we got an incident for one server. Issue was, in software center updates showing downloading but the updates are actually installed on that server. This post will give the full details of the issue and solution. DETAILS OF THE ISSUE Server is wrongly showing downloading updates in software center but the server actually compliant with those updates.Updatestore.logs shows missing the particular updates Updatestore.logs shows missing the part ..read more

INTRODUCTION Here we go one intresting post. We are handling lots of Distribution points and secondary site. So its mandatory to make sure that every packages has been distributed to all the DP before we do any update,packages,application deployments and so on While distribution mostly everyone used to get lots of error. In this post we will explain one of the error faced while distributing the content to distribution point. Let’s move on to the topic ERROR HISTORY A Distribution point is failing to copy the contents from Primary Server due to space issue. However, the distribution point serve ..read more

INTRODUCTION SIGRed (CVE-2020-1350) is a critical, wormable RCE (remote code execution) vulnerability in the Windows DNS Server, that can be triggered by an attacker with malicious DNS response. It received a CVSS base score of 10, and according to the Check Point researchers who found this 17-year-old flaw, the likelihood of exploitation is high.  A remote code execution vulnerability exists in Windows Domain Name System servers when they fail to properly handle requests. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability ..read more