Ideas
What features would you like to see?
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Improved SDK Documentation
With each release of Configuration Manager the amount of documentation in the SDK has decreased. It would be really nice if the documentation could be updated and increased to actually cover everything that is available. Especially when it comes to descriptions of WMI methods/classes/etc. Where the documentation lists the class and the objects in it but doesn't describe anything beyond the field name. It would be good to have some better descriptions than just the field name or method name so that you can fully understand what the fields/method are used for.
47 votesHi all,
We’ve just published updated documentation for the Configuration Manager SDK! Check it out here:
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh442686(v=cmsdk.16).aspx
As part of this update, we also have a much wider set of documentation on the WMI classes.
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh469054(v=cmsdk.16).aspx
Thanks for your feedback and keep it coming!
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Role-Based Administration - Document what permissions control... or at least start!
The Role-Based Administration documentation does not describe what the individual permissions actually control, and they are not self explanatory. For example, under Collection, you see several different 'modify' permissions and it isn't clear what they each control:
-Modify
-Modify Client Status Alert
-Modify Collection Setting
-Modify Folder
-Modify ResourcePlease provide even a basic amount of information about what they control in the console. This will help prevent us silly sysadmins from just giving people tons of permissions so we don't have to reverse engineer what each of the settings does in order to let people do just what they…
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Please bring the meta tags back to the documentation so we can search term
Back in 2012 and even 2007 the docs had a meta tag called appliestoproduct, which allowed to searched just the product docs for the version you were looking for.
This allowed the build of search providers like these:
https://oscc1-public.sharepoint.com/tn-library-searchpageThis functionality is now no longer available
20 votesPlease see https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sccm/. In the upper-right corner, we have the meta tag that was requested.
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Recommended SCCM 2016 infrastructure setup in Azure cloud
It would be good , if there is best practice documentation of setting up SCCM environment in Azure . It could include the supported configurations in Hybrid SCCM environment
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Standalone Primary Mutliple SUPs Documentation update
Standalone Primary with Multiple SUPs - Documentation update
There is limited documentation on how to install and configure multiple SUPs in a Standalone Primary Site. It is advised to have all SUPs share the SUP DB when you have multiple SUPs in a Primary Site to reduce impact if a client changes SUP. However one of the SUPs will synch with MS Update while the others will synch with the one selected to synch to MS Update. Because of this the SUP configuration has to be the same for all SUPs and any SUP/WSUS maintenance needs to be carried out…
10 votescompleted ·AdminAaron Czechowski [ConfigMgr Product Team] (Content Developer, Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager) responded
As noted in prior comment, I’m marking this complete with the changes to the document for 1806. If you have further feedback, please file an issue on the specific article. For more information about filing feedback on our documentation, see https://docs.microsoft.com/sccm/core/understand/use-docs#bkmk_docfeedback.
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Wrong information in the article: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-in/library/gg682177.aspx
Wrong information in the article: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-in/library/gg682177.aspx
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Incremental Collection UpdatesWhen you enable incremental updates for a collection, Configuration Manager periodically scans for new or changed resources from the previous collection evaluation and updates a collections membership with these resources, independently of a full collection evaluation. By default, when you enable incremental collection updates, it runs every 10 minutes and helps keep your collection data up-to-date without the overhead of a full collection evaluation.
When you create a new collection, incremental updates are disabled by default.
But by default, the value is now 5minutes as verified in SP1, R2, R2…
9 votesThis has been updated across our documentation. Thanks for the feedback!
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Correct technet guide about AlwaysOn
The guid https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt651651.aspx is incorrect or missing some steps.
- It mentions Endpoints a few times, while it has meen listener. Listener is not the same as endoint . AONAG must have a listener and the listerner name must the provided as sql server name
- The port of listener must match the port of SQL Servers
- BEFORE adding the DB to AONAG (if the new server is different than current one), run the following:
USE master
ALTER DATABASE cmXXX SET ENABLEBROKER
ALTER DATABASE cm_XXX SET TRUSTWORTHY ON;USE CMXXX
EXEC spchangedbowner 'sa'- After adding the DB to…
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Please enable us to search the documentation for a specific product version
Today it's not possible to search only the documentation related to "Configuration Manager" (v.Next) for a specific word/topic. That's even not possible at the Microsoft sites directly (e.g. Microsoft.com). In any case old stuff related to Configuration Manager 2007 oder 2012 shows us. It would be great if you can enable to search only the documentation for a specific product version.
This is a similar ask as in "Please bring the meta tags back to the documentation so we can search term" but probably not exactly the same.
5 votesThis search function is available. Go to https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sccm/. In the upper-right corner, the search is scoped.
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GDPR Compliance
Please confirm that telemetry data from SCCM does not include any GDPR Compliance relevant data and document it on https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sccm
3 votescompleted ·AdminAaron Czechowski [ConfigMgr Product Team] (Content Developer, Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager) responded
I recently added a note to our diagnostics and usage data FAQ: https://docs.microsoft.com/sccm/core/understand/frequently-asked-questions-about-diagnostics-and-usage-data#bkmk_gdpr
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Provide better guidance/procedures for automatic updating of Windows Update Agent
Still searching for clear guidance on automating updating the Windows Update Agent in an enterprise.
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Automatic notification when the Docs are updated
Trying to keep track of which topics in the Documentation Library have been changed and when is a nightmare.
Provide a notification mechanism such as a RSS feed for updates to the Documentation Library as they occur.
In an ideal world it would be great to be told WHAT the changes were (be good if there was a way of easily snapshotting the article before and after the changes with the changes highlighted), but not sure how easy that is.
3 votescompleted ·AdminAaron Czechowski [ConfigMgr Product Team] (Content Developer, Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager) responded
There are a few ways to accomplish this. For about the next week or so you can use the “Follow” link at the bottom in the comments section. This functionality goes away shortly when we switch over to GitHub Issues.
As already stated, you can watch the GitHub repository, although this will provide notification of EVERYTHING that happens, which might get a bit noisy.
The recommendation from the core docs team is to use the built-in search, and then the RSS link there. For example, if you want to monitor the Log files article (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sccm/core/plan-design/hierarchy/log-files), search for the full page title that shows in the browser tab and in the search results (which may be different than what shows at the top of the article). For example, https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/search/index?search=%22Log+files+for+troubleshooting+-+Configuration+Manager%22&scope=ConfigMgr. Note this is scoped to ConfigMgr and the title is in quotation marks. There should be only one result.… -
Add thorough documentation for Client Settings and what registry keys/WMI values are set by them on client devices
I would love to have it officially documented exactly what each option in Client Settings is modifying when processed by the client. I know some of them are in the registry, some of them are in WMI but I haven't seen any documentation for this.
3 votesHello – you can find a list of new WMI classes, methods, and topics on the “What’s New in the System Center Configuration Manager SDK” article! Check it out here: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh469054(v=cmsdk.16).aspx
Thanks for your feedback! Keep it coming!
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"-StandardProgram" switch required for using "Start-CMPackageDeployment", this is a required switch without which the command will fail
We are trying to create a deployment for a package as below:
Start-CMPackageDeployment -CollectionName "WOL Testing" -PackageName "Powerdown" -DeployPurpose Available -DeploymentAvailableDay 02/05/2016 -DeploymentAvailableTime 10:50
- Findings as below:
Required Deployment with Schedule and Available Day and Time:
Start-CMPackageDeployment -StandardProgram -CollectionName "Brik" -PackageName "SMS Toolkit" -ProgramName "SMS" -AllowSharedContent $true -DeployPurpose Required -DeploymentAvailableDay 2016/11/01 -DeploymentAvailableTime 11:00 -ScheduleEvent AsSoonAsPossible
Available Deployment with available Day and Time:
Start-CMPackageDeployment -StandardProgram -CollectionName "1" -PackageName "SMS Toolkit" -ProgramName "SMS" -AllowSharedContent $true -DeployPurpose Available -DeploymentAvailableDay 2016/11/01 -DeploymentAvailableTime 11:00
- As the below options might be deprecated and new ones used please find the new commsnds as well:
Old…
3 votesThese have been updated. Thanks for your request!
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Client Cache documentation appears incorrect
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sccm/core/clients/manage/manage-clients#BKMK_ClientCache
The documentation here states that the Client Cache can be deleted using the Remove-Item PowerShell cmdlet, and implies the files can just be deleted without issue. Won't this orphan the cache elements in WMI?
3 votesThis information has been updated and we continue to make improvements. See https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sccm/core/clients/deploy/about-client-settings for details.
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Actions such as Remove, Reset, Reset Passcode are not available in self service portal when device is enrolled by a Device Enrollment Manage
Actions such as Remove, Reset, Reset Passcode are not available in self service portal will not be visible either in company portal or in self service portal i.e. portal.manage.microsoft.com when a user who has Device Enrollment Manager role assigned enrolls a device.
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Accurate Bug Updates Through Connect
It's quite frustrating to spend time logging bugs with ConfigMgr through Connect only to have bug submissions either incorrectly closed (i.e. closed as a duplicate but also closing the referenced bug - will it ever get looked at if all active bugs are closed!?) or being closed as fixed but not adding any information as to what the fix is or when the fix will be released.
Myself and colleagues spend the time and effort documenting these bugs with your products on behalf of customers so the very least that could be done in return is to let us know…
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Enhance documentation of Alternate Content Provider (ICcmAlternatedownloadProvider)
The Alternate Content Provider is poorly documented. It would be nice if an example could be developed and posted. At minimum, it would be great if you could complete the documentation for the interface ICcmAlternatedownloadProvider and the call back. The call back is not documented at all. It simply says to call method SendNotifyErrorToCTM. Where is that?!
2 votesThe information is available online at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sccm/develop/reference/core/servers/configure/alternate-content-provider-classes
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Issue with Integration with Windows Update for Business in Windows 10 page
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt488782.aspx
There are issues with this article. It states incorrectly useWSUSServer instead of UseWUServer.
In addition in ConfigMgr 1602, the inventory of this registry key is not enabled by default and should be enabled using Hardware Inventory.
1 voteHi Jean-Sébastien – since you posted this, we’ve updated the registry key setting. As of 1606, the hardware inventory class is enabled by default. Look to see an update to the procedure that shows how to enable the feature in coming updates.
Thanks for the feedback – keep it coming!
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Update the Technet Article
I am reading the Technet article about conditional access in Configuration manager and the prerequistes for the on-premp exchange.
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn919655.aspx
It states the following. “Make sure that you are using the latest version of the on-premises Exchange connector.”
My question is – how do I assure I am using the latest version of the connector, when it’s a build in feature of Configuration Manager?
1 voteHi Henrik,
Although not in the article you linked to, we do provide the information you’re looking for here: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt628518.aspx.
Let us know if you have any other questions. We appreciate your feedback – please keep it coming!
Thanks,
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SCCM Domain Functional Level prereq check
Both SCCM v1610 and the new v1611 include a domain functional level check that is referring to a minimum level of Windows Server 2003. Is this a change to the prereqs, an error in the documentation which states 2008 as the minimum level, or just an error in the new versions? This is quite a hot topic as the DFL has prevented many customers from moving to SCCM CB.
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