Book Image

Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Samir Hammoudi, Matthew Hudson, Greg Ramsey, Brian Mason, Chuluunsuren Damdinsuren
Book Image

Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager Cookbook - Second Edition

By: Samir Hammoudi, Matthew Hudson, Greg Ramsey, Brian Mason, Chuluunsuren Damdinsuren

Overview of this book

This practical cookbook is based on the 1602 current branch of System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM). It shows you how to administer SCCM, giving you an essential toolbox of techniques to solve real-world scenarios. Packed with over 60 task-based and instantly usable recipes, you’ll discover how design a SCCM Infrastructure, and dive into topics such as the recommended SQL configuration for SCCM and how to deploy Windows 10 with Operating System Deployment (OSD). You will learn to easily manage Windows 10 devices by deploying applications, software updates, and feature upgrades, andl be able to leverage Mobile Device Management (MDM) using SCCM and Microsoft Intune. Finally, you see how to gather the inventory of all your PC park and create reports based on it. By the end of the book, you will have learned the best practices when working with SCCM and have a handy reference guide for troubleshooting.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager Cookbook - Second Edition
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Monitoring compliance with SSRS


We previously showed how to use the CM control panel applet to look at compliance, but that is useful for just one machine at a time. There are several ways to monitor the compliance of a baseline in CM for all users or computers.

One way to view compliance is just to view the Monitoring node of the CM console. Another way is to view SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) reports. Slicker yet, is to leverage subscriptions via text file to a share, or an e-mail from SSRS. We will show you how to set up an e-mail subscription on behalf of your boss. Then we will show how to drop a file daily, which lists noncompliant assets for your security team.

Getting ready

The My-Company-Win10-Computer baseline created earlier should have been piloted by now and should be deployed to a collection of Windows 10 machines. Refer to Chapter 9Managing Reports and Queries to set up SSRS if you have not already done so.

How to do it...

  1. Install the SMTP feature using Server Manager...