At MMS 2017 in Minneapolis me and Ryan Ephgrave @EphingPosh had the great honor of doing a session on some of the great Community tools out there for Configuration Manager. We did it last year as well with the help of Kent Agerlund and it is always great fun, just preparing it, researching looking for new tools, what has changed, what is updated is great!
We did some polls as well on Twitter this year on which tools people used for different purposes, the result of these polls is in this post as well together with the links to the tools we talked about and demoed.
Infrastructure
- Configuration Manager prerequisites tool – https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/ConfigMgr-2012-R2-e52919cd
- Hydration Kit – http://deploymentresearch.com/Research/Post/580/Hydration-Kit-For-Windows-Server-2016-and-ConfigMgr-Current-Technical-Preview-Branch
- Hands on Labs – https://www.microsoft.com/handsonlabs
- Azure Devtest labs – https://azure.microsoft.com/services/devtest-lab/
- Documentation script – http://www.enhansoft.com/customer-area
- SQL Maintenance script – https://ola.hallengren.com/
- SQL maintenance – https://stevethompsonmvp.wordpress.com/2016/11/16/why-you-should-not-use-the-configmgr-rebuild-index-task/
- ConfigMgr package distribution Scheduler and Monitor – https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/ConfigMgr-Package-4ccbcc3b
Configuration Items
- Reg2CI – https://reg2ps.azurewebsites.net/ and
- ConfigMgr Remote Compliance – https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/ConfigMgr-Remote-Compliance-2a9e55f3
Applications
- PSApp deployment toolkit – http://psappdeploytoolkit.com/
- Application Importer – https://sccmappimp.codeplex.com/
- SCCM Application Creator – https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/SCCM-2012-Application-10980205
- Application Tester – http://www.ephingadmin.com/test-configmgr-applications-automatically-with-powershell-and-hyper-v/
- RuckZuck – http://ruckzuck.tools/
Software Updates Reports
- https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/gary_simmons_mcs/2014/09/16/system-center-2012-r2-configuration-manager-software-update-compliance-dashboard/
- http://eskonr.com/tag/sccm-patch-reports/
Software Update PowerBI
- https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/Power-BI-SCCM-Dashboard-d1b7e688
- https://miketerrill.net/2016/01/24/the-power-of-power-bi/
- https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/configmgrteam/2016/04/01/exploring-your-system-center-configuration-manager-and-microsoft-intune-hybrid-data-on-power-bi-dashboard/
Software Updates
- Create Software Update Groups Tool 1.0.0 console extension – https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/Create-Software-Update-bb775cd4
OS Deployment
- OSDBackground – https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/Replacement-for-BGInfo-0095cff3
- OSDwebservice – https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/Web-Service-for-OS-93b6ecb8
- Driver Automation Tool – https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/Driver-Tool-Automate-9ddcc010
- ConfigMgr Task Sequence Monitor – https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/ConfigMgr-Task-Sequence-fefdc532
- Install applications dynamically – https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/Get-computer-targeted-9aa0d094
Frontends
- UEFI Bitlocker frontend – https://www.niallbrady.com/2016/05/17/introducing-the-windows-10-uefi-bitlocker-frontend-for-system-center-configuration-manager-current-branch/
- UI++ – http://blog.configmgrftw.com/uiplusplus/
- ConfigMgr OSD Frontend – https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/ConfigMgr-OSD-FrontEnd-100-55209031
Right – click tools
- Recast (Right Click Tools) – http://www.nowmicro.com/Software/Recast
Troubleshooting tools
- Client Center – https://sccmclictr.codeplex.com/ or in the Windows Store
- Remote Manage – http://cireson.com/apps/remote-manage/
- Loglauncher – http://wmug.co.uk/wmug/b/r0b/archive/2017/02/23/loglauncher-3-1
- SCStore – https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/System-Center-Store-56d76894