Config Manager

Right before Christmas 1E released its first free tool for ConfigMgr admins in a while called Service Window.  This tool will allow you to edit, delete, add and view maintenance windows for ConfigMgr clients.  You can run the app on the client machine or by specifying the remote computer you want to examine. 

Here is the app running on my laptop where you can see there are currently no Maintenance Windows defined, so essentially my laptop will run an mandatory advertisement or task sequence at any time.

If I want to add a new maintenance window I click the button with the “+” key on it.

This opens another window to configure and set the maintenance window.

As you can see I can define the start and stop time of the maintenance window, the date it begins, if it reoccurs, what type of reoccurrence, and on which day it reoccurs.  There is also a checkbox at the bottom of the window that allows you specify that the maintenance window only applies to an OSD task sequence.

I am going to use the defaults just to create the window.  If you are following along you should be back in the main window with the new maintenance window defined like this.

If I select the maintenance window I get the two other options to view the selected maintenance window and edit it, and also the delete button which will delete the maintenance window selected.

At the bottom of the main window is also a view button that will open a window that displays the maintenance windows in a graphical format such as below.

You can switch the view to show a week at a time or just today as well.

One of the best options is the ability to delete a maintenance window, if you are testing a client this tool makes testing maintenance windows easy and extremely quick, you do not have to wait for you clients to get the policy to define, modify, add or delete a maintenance window.

1E has plans to develop a number of free tools for ConfigMgr moving forward, if you have any ideas for tools or have any feedback on this one send me an email.

Regards,
Anthony

Anthony Clendenen | Solutions Engineer | 1E

Microsoft MVP System Center Configuration Manager

http://configmgr.com

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