On client machines, in Configuration Manager Properties and the Actions tab I would like to see the addition of a 'Run All' button rather than having to click on each individual action and then click Run Now.

Thanks,

Andrew

There is a lot of very detailed information in the individual component client logs files, But with all that detail in so many logs, it can be difficult to tell what the client is doing at any given time. I would like to see a master log of all the high level client activity and timestamps.
12:00 hardware inventory started
12:02 hardware inventory complete
12:05 policy download
12:08 software inventory started
etc...
It would help narrow down the number of logs to examine and the timeframes to look at.

Issue:
SCCM clients get stuck after a while when devices use only sleep/hibernate mode instead of restart. The ccmexec service still show running but logs are not updated anymore and not reporting at all. Only killing service and restart solve the problem. Two times showed during MS cases.
Idea: Improve Client health to check for instance once per day the health of ccmexec service and logs timestamp and restart service if required.

we need a better way to check, and resolve client health from within the console with out having to go the web and collect a wide range of third party scripts/apps to help resolve the issues.

for example: duplicates GUID. inactive clients, etc..

things like this should be available from the start.

There should be a built-in PowerShell Cmdlet to disable/enable verbose,debug,sql...etc. logging options instead changing Registry keys.

Many times when you are testing something with ConfigMgr, you'd like to send client state messages immediately to MP. Now you need to wait for state message reporting cycle to occur. You can start the other client cycles manually with Configuration Manager Control Panel utility (or remotely from ConfigMgr console) except state messages.

Client health issues are one of main pain areas admins deals. Post client install, registration, policy download succeeds, client should create a golden state of its own on WKS and similarly one golden info of client at SCCM server level also in DB in separate table or so,... in case of client broken situation, using these two copies we can restore back. This way may prove much better than current situation where enormous amount of time, dealing different components with still no guarantee to fix it.

Make Software Center available (as an App?) so that you can see exactly what is in Software Center for a remote machine. You launch the app on your technician PC, supply the machine name and user name and the Software Center shows up on the technician PC with exactly what the user sees. This would be very valuable for level 2 and service desk people to help users.

The easiest way to find a device on a network is with the physical layer information. I can't even understand why this wouldn't be an option. At times while troubleshooting getting the IP address from the end user is the only information that you can gather.

One of the most issues found is database performance based on fragmented indexes. A notification or automatic defragmentation on for the relevant indexes would be nice.

Would like Config Manager to ignore a bad battery if the device is running on Power Supply. Today a lot of things stop working with Config Manager if the device has a bad battery, logfiles says Battery Critical=TRUE

IT would be a nice option to have the option to clear CCMCache folder directly from SCCM Admin console by right-clicking on the client.

@JasonSandys: "When it works, it works fine. When it breaks, God help you cause no one else can."

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Configuration Manager Service Manager (the start/stop services window) should be in built-in as part of Monitoring, and sped up!

When checking Client Status it would improve the experience if I could run ccmeval on a client that has failed any test immediately to see if the issue still exists.

I would love to see a infrastructure health dashboard. A go to location for making sure all MPs, SUPs, DBs etc. are healthy, rather than having to go through system statuses in the console. Perhaps have some tiles that show how many endpoints are hitting each MP, SUP as well.

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.

The third party application SCCM client center provides essential troubleshooting support for the client. Why not integrate the features into the Admin console?