SCCM Management Insights Clean Healthy SCCM CB Environment
SCCM Management Insights Clean Healthy SCCM CB Environment Configuration Manager ConfigMgr. SCCM CB Management Insights is one of my favorite features. However, it is not listed in the features list in the SCCM CB 1802 console.
However, management insights were by default enabled in 1802 and later. Trust me, it is very useful to keep your environment neat and clean. As a central admin of a global SCCM team, I will love this feature.
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In the previous post, I provided tips and tricks for maintaining an SCCM environment. My honest recommendation is to read those to get more details about SCCM health. MGMT insights is another way to track the health and tidiness of your SCCM environment.
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What is Management Insights in SCCM?
Management Insights is similar to a robotic assistant that will keep an on your SCCM environment for you and let you know the details. Who is not following your standard processes? Who is doing wrong or not recommended things within your SCCM hierarchy?
Management insight helps to gain valuable insights into the current state of the SCCM CB environment based on analysis of data in the site database. I assume the SCCM product group will provide an option to create custom management insights in the future. The Management Insights feature was introduced with the SCCM CB 1708 preview version.
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Where is Management Insights Located in the SCCM CB Console?
Launch the SCCM CB console and navigate via \Administration\Overview\Management Insights
1. \Administration\Overview\Management Insights\All Insights 2. \Administration\Overview\Management Insights\All Insights\Software Center 3. \Administration\Overview\Management Insights\All Insights\Applications 4. \Administration\Overview\Management Insights\All Insights\Simplified Management 5. \Administration\Overview\Management Insights\All Insights\Collections 6. \Administration\Overview\Management Insights\All Insights\Cloud Services
What are the Features of Management Insights in SCCM?
We have five (5) built-in management insights options in SCCM CB 1802. Let’s take a look at those in detail. The below table helps you to show more details.
| What are the Features of Management Insights in SCCM? |
|---|
| Software Center – Insights for managing the software center |
| Applications – Insights for your application management |
| Simplified Management – Insights that help you simplify the day-to-day management of your SCCM environment |
| Collection – Insights that help simplify your management by cleaning up and re-configuring collections |
| Cloud Services – Modernise and simplify your management infrastructure by leveraging the power of the cloud. SCCM is integrated with many cloud services, enabling more straightforward and more modern management of your devices. |
Software Center – Insights for Managing Software Center
Software Center helps you get information and insights into software center versions available in your SCCM environment. A couple of out-of-the-box rules are created to find software center versions. Also, it helps to clean up the old version of SCCM software center and learn how to get new software center versions.
Rule 1 – Direct your user to the software center instead of the application catalog
Rule 2 – Use the new version of the Software Center
The application catalog is depreciated, and you should deploy the new version of the software center – More details in Microsoft documentation.
Applications – Insights for Your Application Management
Application management options in management insight can help you find evil things happening within the application creation world. Using this feature, let’s clean up the OLD applications in your SCCM environment. This helps to keep the health of all your application echo systems.
Rule 1 – Applications without deployments
Simplified Management – Simplify the Day to Day MGMT of Your Environment
SCCM simplified management rule in the SCCM management insight feature helps to find out the non-SCCM CB client versions in your environment. This will help to keep your SCCM environment healthy and updated.
Rule 1 – Non-CB Client Versions
Collection – Simplify Device Management
SCCM management insights help simplify device management options for your organization. The following rule of MGMT insights helps you keep an eye on your environment’s collections. This helps you clean up and reconfigure collections.
Rule 1 – Empty Collections
Cloud Services – Modernise & Simplify Device MGMT Infrastructure
Cloud services management insights are to get more details about modern management scenarios. One of the key modern management scenarios is enabling and keeping track of the co-management features.
Modernise and simplify your management infrastructure by leveraging the power of the cloud. SCCM is integrated with many cloud services, all of which enable simpler and more modern device management.
Rule 1
Assess co-management readiness. There are three (3) prerequisites for co-management. 1. Update clients to the latest Windows 10 version, 2. Configure Azure Services for use with SCCM and 3. Enable Devices to be hybrid Azure Active Directory Joined.
Rule 2
Configure Azure Services to use with SCCM
Rule 3
Enable Devices to be hybrid Azure Active Directory joined
Rule 4
Update Clients to the latest Windows Version
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Anoop C Nair is Microsoft MVP from 2015 onwards for consecutive 10 years! He is a Workplace Solution Architect with more than 22+ years of experience in Workplace technologies. He is Blogger, Speaker, and Local User Group Community leader. His main focus is on Device Management technologies like SCCM and Intune. He writes about technologies like Intune, SCCM, Windows, Cloud PC, Windows, Entra, Microsoft Security, Career etc…
This is a great article Anoop, I thoroughly enjoyed reading the different features and will be using to enhance our SCCM environment.
One question if you don’t mind: what would be your strategy if you needed to do a deep analysis of an organisations current SCCM environment and create a future SCCM environment?
I would to hear your thoughts on that.
StaffHello Darren – if you just want to analyse plus find out the issue of SCcm infra and you don’t need any helping hand to fix it ? Then go for MS RAP – https://www.anoopcnair.com/sccm-ms-rap-real-world-tips-pros/
StaffIf you want some helping hand there are some other offering from Microsoft like SCcm client health remediation etc … I would suggest that