Ideas
What features would you like to see?
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Application Dependency Management
Managing applications and understanding their dependencies is a significant challenge. Having the ability to understand what applications depend on system components, such as .NET or other, would be a significant benefit to ensure minimal production impact when working to upgrade an operating system or an application version. A recent example in a customers infrastructure was legacy software with dependencies on a specific version of .NET. Being able to see what these dependencies are ahead of time across the enterprise and manage them proactively would have been a huge win.
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Task Sequence Step / Action / Option "Generate Custom Status Message
It would be really helpful to have the possibility to generate a Status Message with a custom Message ID from within a tasksequence. Maybe as a seperate step, maybe as an checkmark under the "Options" tab.
This message ID could be used to trigger a Status Filter Rule more granular to improve overall Status Filter Rule performance.
Example: A company with 20k Clients deploys Operating Systems and Software via task sequences, the result ist that there are hundreds of thousands of 11171 events. When we are able to set a Message ID 65000 in the OSD Task Aequence, we are…
64 votesThanks for the feedback and suggestion.
Certainly makes sense, we have this ask captured in our backlog though no immediate plans.
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Add the ability to Copy an Existing Boot Image
I would like to be able to copy a boot image so I can update it and make changes without breaking the original boot image. Currently you have to create all new boot images by hand and manually add the drivers.
63 votesUpdating status to noted – see https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sccm/core/understand/find-help#send-a-suggestion for an explanation of each value.
I’m also updating the path to OS Deployment.
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Remove Custom Discovery Data
When creating custom discovery data using the smsresgen class there is no way to remove this from the discovery related tables in ConfigMgr. Since there is a supported way to add this data, there should be a supported way to remove it. This is necessary as a rollback option, to return ConfigMgr to its default state, before the custom discovery data was added.
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CMPivot: Add an option to provide a code signing certificate for the generated scripts from CMPivot
In our organization only signed scripts may be executed on the clients. However, the scripts from CMPivot queries are not signed and are therefore not executed. This restriction is set by GPO and cannot be overridden by "PowerShell execution policy" in the SCCM client computer agent.
63 votesNoted ·AdminAdam Meltzer (ConfigMgr Product Team) (Software Engineer, Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager) responded
Our internal tracking item associated with this is still open.
I’ve reactivated this feedback. Thank you for bringing it to our attention.
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Fix the text in the title bar of the Admin Console to be correctly aligned with the top of the window when maximised
Currently when the Admin Console is maximised some of the text in the title bar is not aligned correctly, it is set too high and is cut off. It displays correctly when the window is not maximised. See attached screenshots for example of what I mean.
This is in 1706, but it has been like this for multiple versions now.
It's only a minor cosmetic thing, but it's quite distracting.
63 votesNoted ·AdminMark Silvey - ConfigMgr Product Team (Engineering Manager, ConfigMgr, Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager) responded
This bothers me too! Looking forward to addressing this.
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Feature Request: Introduce a 'Remediate' option for Package/DPs for remediating package failures.
When a package fails to distribute to a DP, the only option right now is to 'Redistribute' the package to the DP. This is inefficient for large packages since 'Redistribute' transfers all package content to the DP even if some content may have already been transferred prior to the failure. For large packages, this not only takes a lot of time but consumes more network bandwidth than necessary.
When a package is 'added' to the DP, only the missing files are copied to the DP however there is no way to simulate an 'add' action from the UI.
Having the…
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Run Scripts: Need folder support for feature
It would be nice to be able to make folders and apply security to each folder for the new scripts feature.
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DCR: Boot Images. Provide an option to prevent re-downloading boot images (Boot / Prestage Media)
Scenario: You create a Boot Media or Prestaged Media. Current behaviour is that as long as the boot image version from creation date matches the version inside the infrastructure everything is fine. System is starting Windows PE and executes the Task Sequence. If you add for example a new driver now to the boot image the new version causes Configuration Manager to download the boot image inside Windows PE and another restart into the updated version of the boot image. In case of a Prestaged Media scenario this painful, as UEFI systems might no longer work.
Possible SOLUTION: Add a…
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Add a check box to Maintenance Tasks to disable all temporariliy
When doing an upgrade to SCCM, it has been recommended to disable some, or even all of the site maintenance tasks. (per the upgrade checklist) Would be awesome to have a box on the Maintenance Tasks screen to temporarily disable ALL tasks while the upgrade is being performed. (as opposed to manually disabling all of them) An "upgrade/maintenance mode" box essentially!
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Add option "File/folder/registry item DOES NOT exist" to application detection rules
Sometimes you just need to have an app that is detected successfull when something is not existing. Delete files or registry keys etc. It would be nice if there was a logical operator in app detection to select a file and then mark a box "NOT" or "DOES not exist" to tell the detedetection system that we are done when thi thing does not exist anymore.
Now we need to use ps-scripts (to return something when file is not detected and nothing when it is detected) to achieve this, like:$strFileName="c:\temp\test.txt"
If (Test-Path $strFileName){}Else{return $true}
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Allow required deployments to be uninstalled
We typically want our users to receive new software without action on their part, so required deployments generally make sense. However, this prevents users from being able to uninstall software (without the app eval cycle putting it back) unless CM administrators are involved.
Having an option allowing required deployments to essentially transform into available deployments if the user clicks the Uninstall button in Software Center would be useful to us since we could satisfy the requirement of delivering software without end user action and also allow end users to uninstall unneeded software.
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Option to direct import images from MS VLSC
It would be convenient to have a method to enter/save your volume licensing credentials to have it directly download an iso from the volume licensing site, extract the wim into a designated storage location, and then import it directly into the console. This would especially be nice considering the more frequent release of new Windows 10 builds. I like running my B&C from the newest image available.
58 votesUpdated by bobmn for sangeev/OSD
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O365 ADR for New Office Installs
We have the ability to setup ADR's for O365 updates, but we need the ability to create O365 ADR's for downloads and deployments of the newest O365 Installers to new images that do not have O365 installed yet.
58 votesNoted ·Admindjam (Product Director, or Executive, Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager) responded
great idea.
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Application Model - Fast Retry interval
By default Fast rety interval is 2 hours. There is no option to change this setting. We would like have option to change this internval.
Note in Pacakage model we have option to change this setting through site control file
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"Test Detection method" button.
Basically, configure your detection method, then have a "Test Detection method" button which has a prompt to enter a device name for testing the detection method on.
would be useful in particular for the vbscript/powershell type detection methods.
Just needs to return an "Application detected" or "Application not detected" result.
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Ability to Right-Click a Device and View All Recent Status Messages
Provide a simpler way to target a Status Message Query at a Device by allowing you to Right-Click and View its latest Status Messages, rather than having to manually run through the Status Message Wizard.
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Drag and Drop in console
Why can't we simply drag and drop machines/users into collections instead of having to go through wizard?. It makes it much harder for Helpdesk to understand how to use the console (hence why most people use AD security groups as targets). Why not select/Multi-select items and drag into relevant collection
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Console -- Start -- client ping / mstsc with FQDN
Make clients Calls like Ping / MSTAC witrh FQDN and not with Netbios. We have different AD connected to the SCCM . We can not use the build in features like Ping the clients or open RDP as the console only tries the netbios name and not the fqdn. It would be great to have all cleints call done trought FQDN
53 votesNoted ·Admindjam (Product Director, or Executive, Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager) responded
understood. hopefully, ping isn’t needed as much in 1602 w/ online/offline status. will look into the others.
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Wake-up proxy support for 802.1X networks
In our enterprise we have quite a few locations where 802.1X is impelemented, e.g. networks port-based network access control and/or VLANs. Some locations even use DHCP snooping.
We would like to implement SCCMs wake-up proxy feature in these locations but it is not currently supported. Also, network administrators are concerned about the IP-to-MAC mapping (MAC flapping) feature used in wake-up proxy.
Please provide us with wake-up proxy support that will work on any type of network.
53 votesThanks for the feeback and creating this uservoice item. We will investigate some options and consider this for a future milestone.
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