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Software Update Management- SCCM 2012

The below post explains the end to end process of software updates management in SCCM 2012 Pre-requisites: 1.  WSUS Server (WSUS 3.0 SP2 ) should be installed on the SCCM site server or if you want to install WSUS on another server, it is important that you install WSUS administration console as the SCCM Server uses API. This  link explains the step by step procedure to install WSUS 3.0 SP2 2. Install SUP-Software Update Point on the SCCM Server . 3. Reporting Services Point: Install reporting services point role as described in this link . 4. Client agent: The software update client agent should be enabled(will be enabled by default) and the settings have to specified as per the requirement. On SCCM console, go to Administration>Site Configuration>Client settings>Right click on Default client settings> Click on Properties. If required, we can create custom client settings and then enable client settings for that settings. Unde
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Get-ADUserMembership --- Retrieves friendly group names of a given AD user

Import-Module ActiveDirectory Function Get-ADUserMembership { <# .SYNOPSIS Retrieves friendly group names of a given AD user. .DESCRIPTION It retrieves the group membership of the user AND helps in scenarios where you just need the group names without distinguished name to send the output as input to other functions or scripts. .PARAMETER name Name of the Active Directory user to query .NOTES Name: Get-ADUserMembership Author: Santhosh Durgam Email : santhosh.durgam@hotmail.com DateCreated: 8th August 2019 .EXAMPLE Get-ADUserMembership -User "sccmadmin" Description ----------- It returns the friendly names of the groups to which the queried user belongs to. #> [ cmdletbinding ( ) ] param ( [ Parameter ( Mandatory = $true , position = 0 ) ] [string] $User ) begin

Upgrading from SCCM 2012 R2 SP1 to SCCM 1702

SCCM 1702 is a baseline version now, we can upgrade directly from below versions: System Center 2012 Configuration Manager with Service Pack 1 System Center 2012 Configuration Manager with Service Pack 2 System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager with Service Pack 1 Prerequisites : Install ADK 10 General prerequisites will already be met as it is an upgrade.  Note:Perform a backup of the site and disable backup site server and other maintenance tasks. Following are no longer supported in SCCM 1702 Windows Server 2008/2008R2 except for DPs SQL Server 2008R2 Supported OS and DB versions: Microsoft checklist Installation: Download SCCM 1702 from Microsoft site, extract the contents and double click on splash.hta Click on Install. Click Next Select upgrade Configuration site and  Click Next  Choose options appropriately. Click Next and download prerequisite files or use