February, 2015

Creating Collections to deploy ConfigMgr client updates (the easy way)

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Get the Servicing Exstension from Microsoft NOW as it does all the work!!! http://blogs.technet.com/b/configmgrteam/archive/2014/12/09/now-available-microsoft-system-center-2012-configuration-manager-servicing-extension.aspx

Once you have this, in the Admin node, there's a site servicing section -> client targeting. You click 'Create Query' and it makes a nice query for your collections.

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Then you go about creating your collection.

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click next. Select Add Rule -> Query Rule

 

Click Import Query Statement and choose the nice query microsoft made for you.

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Deploy the cumulative update to the clients.