Tag: how-to
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Monitoring your fleets event logs – Part 2
Install Splunk – It’s free! https://www.splunk.com/en_us/download/splunk-enterprise.html Modify Program Files\Splunk\etc\system\local\inputs.conf Add the lines [WinEventLog] evt_resolve_ad_obj = 1 Then we need to reboot splunk, in Splunk click Settings, then Server controls and click Restart Splunk Next we need to add our data source, click Add Data from the launch screen, then monitor Choose Local Events then ForwardedEvents and…
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Creating Collections to deploy ConfigMgr client updates (the easy way)
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. Then you go about creating your collection. click next. Select Add Rule -> Query Rule…
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How To: Create Automatic Deployment Rules for Patch Tuesday Software Updates
Automatic deployment of updates is one of the best features of SCCM. Automation in general is awesome. The best way to use Automatic deployment rules (ADR) is to have them run on Patch Tuesday which is the second Tuesday of the month when Microsoft releases their updates generally before 11:00 PST/PDT (I am Australian based so…