Introduction
IT professionals might like to write a script or develop a report, that will work with Configuration Manager; and they might desire to do this themselves. After all this is how an IT professional develops those skills that are in great demand in industry and commerce. All too often however, deadlines and daily demands reduce this development time. Microsoft knows this too well and thus they have integrated the community hub with Configuration Manager. An IT administrator can leverage the efforts of those who have faced similar tasks, conquered those tasks, and published those achievements on the community hub. You can then retrieve these products from within the Configuration Manager console and approve them for use in your site hierarchy.
In this article I will download and enable a Configuration Manager console extension. This useful feature allows an administrator to right click on a Task Sequence Deployment and view status messages from devices that have run that assigned Task Sequence.
Feature Requirements
In order to access the community hub from within the SCCM console you will need Windows 10 build version 17710 or higher and .Net Framework version 4.6 or higher installed on the device from which you will run the console.
In addition, you will need to enable the SCCM site communication setting: "Use configuration Manager-generated certificates for HTTP site systems"
Enable the Configuration Manager console extension.
Open the SCCM console on your Windows 10 device and navigate to Community\Community Hub. A series of tablets for various downloadable SCCM add-on features will appear.
Click on All Objects and in the search bar type "show all status messages for a task sequence deployment". Click on the search icon - the tablet for the Task Sequence status message add on appears.
When clicking on the tablet you are then presented with the option to Download the console feature.
It is then a matter of clicking on Download and the right-click Task Sequence Status Message viewing feature is installed in your SCCM console.
Using the new Right Click Status Messages Console Extension
Using the new feature is straight forward. Navigate to one of your Task Sequences that has been deployed and executed by at least one client - Software Library\Overview\Operating Systems\Task Sequences. Click on your Task Sequence and then click on the Deployments table at the lower portion of the console. Right click on the deployment and click on Show Status Messages.
The Status Messages Set Viewing Period window appears. Configure the time settings as required.
I hope you enjoyed reading this article and I hope you have similar success in your own testing and demonstrations.
Colin
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