Ideas
What features would you like to see?
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Create Boundaries based on OU membership.
We are have lots of groups that are coming into the company using VPN. As an example we can’t properly manage locations with many machines all coming into the corporate network via a common VPN and the IP addresses change every time and the network speed is a challenge. We end up flooding their pipe into the VPN so if we could use OU membership as a boundary we could managed the deployments.
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Add ability to add notes/properties to a given computer/server in SCCM console
It would be nice to be able to add a note to a asset in the sccm console. For instance, something like "this server is running so and so application and cannot have the sccm client installed. Call so and so if you have any questions." The data of course would be available as an optional column to view in the console. Maybe have user defineable data points that can become properties of the computer even though it may not have the client installed.
23 votes -
max mif size
The Max Mif Size should be increased from 5MB to a default of 50 MB. We know that the average size is now more than default of 5 MB. Admin needs to increase it in order to ensure up-to-date inventory within SCCM.
22 votes -
Maximize the properties of a device collection or device
Maximize the properties of a device collection or device in the console to full screen to see Deployments and Membership rules without scrolling.
21 votes -
Software metering per collection
in a service provider environment (ie. share infrastructure between companies), having the software metering enabled by site as opposite per collection can cause an extra network flow (ie. company 1 needs to monitor outlook.exe while company 2 mozilla.exe).
current software will force all clients to look for outlook.exe as well as mozilla.exe and this could cause performance issue, this also could be a security issue as the information of the monitoring software is stored on the client computer and if the client is monitoring the execution of a software that will be launched, this info will also be available to…
19 votes -
Add Win32_DeviceGuard WMI Class
Request to add the Win32_DeviceGuard WMI Class into Configuration Manager Hardware Inventory by default. This is a crucial WMI class that we can query Virtualization Based Security configurations on systems. Right now we have to manually add the class as described in the following blog:
18 votes -
Hardware Inventory for User Profiles
Since ConfigMgr is now more user centric, it would be nice if user specific settings(registry) are discoverable via Hardware Inventory ( or a new inventory function. I would not consider this a DCM as we are looking to query and report on the data that is on the users profile vs a DCM which checks for compliance. Example would be something like if a user has a proxy set, what is it. Another example would be discovering all the trusted sites a user has configured. This would help us identify sites that we may need to include in a GPO…
17 votes -
Allow adding a client to multiple collections (right click) instead of having to add to a single collection at a time
Currently you can right click on a device and choose to add selected item to a (new or) existing device collection. It would be very handy to be able to browse for and select multiple collections where a device needs (for example) app a, app b, not app c, but also app d and app e.
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Ability to utilise Azure Traffic Manager with Cloud Management Gateway & Cloud DPs
I've dabbled with the deployment of Cloud management gateways, and Cloud DP's and one thing that I observed is that when you create the CMG or CDP you are specifying a region to deploy where you want the resource to be located (east US, West Europe, etc)..
As someone who manages SCCM endpoints at a global level, trying to deploy resources to handle staff to operate across multiple geographic locations (US, Canada, Europe, Australia, New Zealand) you can imagine that I need a lot of Cloud resources to keep traffic local to the endpoints.
It would be fantastic if there…13 votes -
Change hard coded limit for HW inventory mif files.
There is a hard limit of 50 MBs for Hardware inventory set within the data loader for MIF file. If you enabled AI classes to collect more data by SCCM, it is not unusual for these computers to hit this hard-coded limit. This causes an endless loop of resyncs being performed by SCCM clients. the resync then consumes network bandwidth and processing time on the client/MP/etc. It is not until it hit the Data loader that these MIF files are rejected and ultimately a resync occurs to start the whole process over. The hard code limes should be increased to…
13 votesNoted ·AdminAdam Meltzer (ConfigMgr Product Team) (Software Engineer, Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager) responded
Starting with 2002 we increased the size limit from 50MB to 100MB which should provide more breathing room here.
That being said, we understand the desire to allow for larger or more flexible data limits and this is something we can consider for future releases.
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PrepDrv.inf Registration, potentially via ccmeval
In https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/3213242/software-metering-agent-fails-with-software-metering-failed-to-start-p, MtrMgr.log may indicate that the prepdrv is no longer successfully registered. A potential fix could be adding a CCMEval task which would detect if Metering is enabled on the client, and if so, confirm that prepdrv is successfully registered (read mtrmtr.log, but there may be a better programmatic way to do so), and if not successfully registered, register it.
11 votes -
Console: See primary user in Devices overview or vice versa
In the SCCM console: I like to see the primary user in the devices overview, Or I like to see the primary device in the user overview.
10 votes -
Add InventoryLog to replication
Add InventoryLog to replication in a hierarchy. This would allow the ability to query the table from the CAS.
10 votes -
store client boundary IDs in database
A client's last reported list of boundaries and boundary groups it was part of should be stored in the database. This will allow for collections and report built around clients within a boundary or boundary group.
10 votes -
Implement a software installation/Uninstallation notification
I am looking for an option to get noticed when any software installed/Uninstalled from users workstation. We are frequently getting a request for this feature from customer side.
10 votes -
Make configuration.mof changes and restores from backup more robust
Currently, changes to configuration.mof appear to be read in based on the timestamp of the file.
This means that if you restore configuration.mof from a backup, it will not be re-read into the database because the timestamp is older.
Recently I had to force a re-read of a backup of configuration.mof by making a trivial change to a comment in the file so that the timestamp was changed and thus hardware inventory would again run on my clients.
It would seem that perhaps a checksum of the file compared to a file that was read in previously would resolve this…
10 votes -
Capture Cisco CDP and LLDP packets in SCCM reporting for asset tracking
CDP and LLDP packets are generated by network switches and sent to clients to identify which port they are connected to. If the computer is on an enterprise wifi access point, it will capture which access point it is connected to. This data should be captured by SCCM so inventory reports can be run to get a PC's physical location in the network.
This data can be captured with Wireshark, but if SCCM could capture these packets it would aid greatly in PC location and network troubleshooting since it tells you which switch and port number the computer is on.
8 votes -
Compliance tab in device view
It would be great to have a tab with compliance/deployment status for a selected device.
Today we can see deployments when viewing properties of a device, but no status.
Having a tab next to the Summary tab, which displays deployments and the status of these on the selected device, would make it easy to see if a given device has installed all of its deployments.7 votes -
Add missing properties to Win32_QuickFixEngineering
The WMI Class ROOT\cimv2:Win32_QuickFixEngineering has an Property InstallDate but I do not get any values returned.
Having the Installed Date available will allow us to sort and see the latest installed patches remotely. This is valuable when assessing problems caused by the latest installed patches.
7 votes -
Reverse how automatic software metering rules are created. It is backward.
The "Automatically create disabled metering rules" in Software Metering Properties should be "Specify the percentage of computers WITHOUT the software" rather than "Specify the percentage of computers that have the software".
Because of the way corporations license software we don't care about metering the items that 70% or more of the company has on their machines (the way the rules are currently set up to be created) we care about the software that is used on 60% or less of the computers.
The current calculation method for automatically creating software metering rules just clutters it up with rules for things…
7 votes
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