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Future of SCCM ConfigMgr Admins Are you Worried | Configuration Manager | ConfigMgr

Future of SCCM ConfigMgr Admins Are you Worried | Configuration Manager | ConfigMgr

Written By Anoop C Nair
Last Updated July 11, 2024
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Future of SCCM ConfigMgr Admins Are you Worried | Configuration Manager | ConfigMgr? I get these questions via social media interactions and User Group meetings. So, the truth is that SCCM admins are worried about their future.

SCCM admins spend 5-10 years of their IT career mastering the SCCM / ConfigMgr product. In this post, we will see more details about “Are you Worried About the Future of SCCM ConfigMgr Admins?”

SCCM admins have many questions, one of which is, “With all this hype and push towards cloud-based SaaS services like Microsoft Intune, what will be the future of SCCM and its admins?”

In this post, I would like to share Microsoft’s internal SCCM admin’s new roles and responsibilities based on Brad’s podcast mentioned below.

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Future of SCCM ConfigMgr Admins?

SCCM is becoming a core business-critical system (so as SCCM admins) that includes antimalware, patching, and managing access policies (Conditional access policies via Intune) to get mail access and critical data access to your organization. SCCM admins are empowered with new capabilities and responsibilities in your organization.

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Future of SCCM ConfigMgr Admins Are you Worried | Configuration Manager | ConfigMgr – Fig.1

I think the future is very bright for SCCM admins. From a broader perspective, SCCM admins are becoming a more integral part of a company with a Core business-critical system.

SCCM admins’ profiles will not be limited to patching and application deployment (as critics say—but we know we do much more than that). The ITC Podcast Part 2 by Brad Anderson and Kelly Pranghofer provides more insight into this issue.

So Microsoft continuously listens to the SCCM community and responds to our worries. Microsoft has already deployed SCCM 2012 SP2 with Intune in their environment, as I mentioned here.

Now, things are getting centralized via SCCM, and SCCM Admins are becoming significantly influential individuals in each organization. Keep learning SCCM admins; don’t stop learning SCCM/Intune. You can find more help regarding learning SCCM here.

More details in the podcast part 2 below – https://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/In-The-Cloud/ITC-Podcast-ep-24-How-we-use-SCCM-at-Microsoft-Part-2/player

Future of SCCM ConfigMgr Admins Are you Worried | Configuration Manager | ConfigMgr – Video 1

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Anoop C Nair is Microsoft MVP! He is a Device Management Admin with more than 20 years of experience (calculation done in 2021) in IT. He is a Blogger, Speaker, and Local User Group HTMD Community leader. His main focus is on Device Management technologies like SCCM 2012, Current Branch, and Intune. He writes about ConfigMgr, Windows 11, Windows 10, Azure AD, Microsoft Intune, Windows 365, AVD, etc.

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Anoop C Nair is Workplace Technology solution architect with 25+ years of experience in global enterprise organizations such as JP Morgan, Capgemini, etc. Microsoft Certified Trainer. Microsoft MVP from 2015 onwards for consecutive 11+ years! He also conducts Intune and modern workplace tech training for enterprise organizations. He is Blogger, Speaker, and Founder of HTMD Community and HTMD Conference. His main focus is on Device Management technologies like Intune, Windows, Cloud PC. He writes about technologies like Intune, SCCM, Windows, Cloud PC, Windows, Entra, Microsoft Security.

Discussion · 9 comments

  1. Hi Anoop,

    I am totally new to SCCM 2012 & also to servers. I have having few issues with the sccm server. In the site status it gives me management point critical & also shows 0bytes. Again in component status it shows sms_mp_control _manager as critical availability unknown. My sccm server does not have internet connection. Also all my client are showing as inactive. Please help.

    Regards,

    KL

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    1. StaffCan you please check the mpcontrol.log and other logs in SCCM 2012 server to check whether the MP and other components are healthy?

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  2. Hi Anoop ,

    Mpcontrol.logs shows no errors. But the date & time it shows in the log is of august 2013. Is it possible to attach the log files. Please help as i am totally new to this .

    Regards,

    KL

    Reply

    1. StaffMPControl.log says “200 OK” or something else ? Date and Time. I would suggest you to restart the SCCM server after taking necessary approvals. That may help to fix the date issues which you can see in the logs also I may expect some help towards entire troubleshooting of SCCM issue

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  3. Hi ,

    mpcontrol.log says call to httpsendrequestSync Succeeded for port 80 with the status code 200, text:ok sms_mp_control_manager 8/22/2013. As you mentioned before i have restarted the sccm 2012 server 3-4 times . its not showing current date.

    Rgards

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  5. Hi Anoop,

    when i go to c:\program files\Microsoft configuration Manager\ it gives error in mpsetup.logs. error:- fatal msi error-mp.msi could not be installed.
    mp.msi exited with return code:1603

    Regards,

    KL

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  7. HI anoop,

    I m looking to join sccm.. please tell how will be the future for sccm2012. As im working as Desktop engineer L1 and my age is 35. I would like to change the domain from desktop to sccm admin.

    What are the question needed to be in mind before attending the interview.

    Reply

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