Another of the small but useful additions to Configuration Manager in tech preview 1802 is the product life cycle dashboard. This dashboard sits under Asset Intelligence which is in the Assets and Compliance workspace in the SCCM console. The products listed in Asset Intelligence are based on the hardware inventory which inventories the relevant reporting…
Another of the enhancements delivered with Configuration Manager Technical Preview 1802 are extra groups added to the in-place upgrade task sequence. This includes groups in preparation for upgrade and also post-processing groups. The official documentation for this can be found here – https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sccm/core/get-started/capabilities-in-technical-preview-1802#improvements-to-windows-10-in-place-upgrade-task-sequence I’m not going to rewrite everything in this blog post as…
Along with the 20 other features included with Configuration Manager Technical Preview 1802 is a report which extracts the relevant information from your clients in order to use them with Windows AutoPilot. This collates the information from applicable Windows 10 machines (they must be 1703 or later) and the report can be found in the…
This is less of a feature improvement than a name change but still worth noting to save any confusion. Check out the official link here – https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sccm/core/get-started/capabilities-in-technical-preview-1802#improvements-to-pxe-enabled-distribution-points The feature here is to PXE boot without using WDS which traditionally was the backbone of all SCCM PXE booting for running task sequences. Microsoft introduced this in…
One the nice little features announced in Configuration Manager Technical Preview 1802 was deployment templates for task sequences. How many times have you deployed a task sequence and you virtually go into robot mode hitting next, next, tick box, finish? In the same was as you can use templates in automatic deployment rules for software…
Amongst the many improvements brought to Configuration Manager Technical Preview 1802 there is this nice little nugget which makes the Run Scripts feature that little bit more user friendly. Essentially this is a cosmetic improvement but it’s good all the same. Essentially, when you run a script against a client or collection, the script status…
One of the really neat features of Configuration Manager Technical Preview 1802 was in Software Center where you can now prevent the user from seeing applications that are already installed on their device. Again a really simple change but something base on user feedback and will make a lot of people pretty happy. To enable…
The application approval feature of Configuration Manager is something that has laid fairly untouched for quite a while and in Technical Preview 1802 the team have added some functionality which I’m sure will prove useful to many. Once an application is deployed that requires approval… and the end user decides to request the application… Note…
One of the smaller features added into Configuration Manager Technical Preview 1802 was the ability to leverage boundary groups to help manage delivery optimization in Configuration Manager. To do this is simple: In the Configuration Manager console, go to the Administration workspace. Browse to Client Settings Either create new custom client device settings or amend…
So each month I try to cover what’s new in the tech preview version of Configuration Manager. This month however, was a little different. Microsoft dropped the proverbial bomb of Tech Preview 1802 in mid-Feb and it was a big one, no fewer than 21 new features to cover off and a combination of life…
