Populating SCCM user based collections with an AD group – A better way

I recently learned something that I am surprised never dawned on me. Luckily my coworkers didn’t know this either so I don’t feel bad.

Normally I would use a query rule based off an AD group to populate the user collection. The problem is that I am dependent on collection update cycle as well as what I set for AD discovery of groups. I have seen AD discovery set anywhere from one day to 14 days in different environments. Continue reading “Populating SCCM user based collections with an AD group – A better way”

ConfigMgr Systems Pending Reboot Collections and Queries

A couple builds ago, Microsoft added a cool new column to the ConfigMgr console.  It is really cool but I wanted to more with it.  I wanted pending reboot collections and reports.  Now I want to share what I found and did. Continue reading “ConfigMgr Systems Pending Reboot Collections and Queries”