4 Free Tools for SCCM ConfigMgr Admins Community Configuration Manager Endpoint Manager? In this post, I will cover four Free Tools for SCCM/ConfigMgr admins and the community. These tools make the SCCM admin’s life better. Have you ever used this ConfigMgr Ticker, Remote Manage, User Device Affinity, and User-Centric tools?
If not, you are wasting loads of time in day-to-day SCCM/ConfigMgr operations. Here is the chance to automate some of your daily SCCM work. Cireson has provided all these free community tools!
ConfigMgr Ticker – SCCM Ticker – End-User Device Notification Tool
The ConfigMgr Ticker app enables SCCM/ConfigMgr Admins to easily create and deliver Notification/announcements/popups from the SCCM Console to end-user devices (Real-time). This tool can help you to provide notifications in real-time to all specific clients in the particular collection.
Read More about the SCCM notification/announcement tool and download it from here. Following are the four quick steps:-
1. Create an announcement/notification on either a device or user collection
2. Configure text, background colors, and desired font size and enhancements
3. Set the priority and the schedule
4. Send by clicking OK
SCCM Remote Manage App – Simple Remote Administration
Remote management has always been challenging in huge SCCM environments. In-house scripts and applications are not always optimized for all scenarios. SCCM/ConfigMgr Remote Manage App is a toolbox of standard remote functionalities.
Its integration with SCCM/ConfigMgr and allows an SCCM admin to deploy software quickly, run diagnostic processes, view and manipulate services, processes, and view information – all without end-user interaction. Download and Read More details about this tool from here.
User Device Affinity Tool – Makes UDA management Easy
There are over a half dozen ways to associate users to computers via SCCM – some automated, however most manual – which can lead to mistakes. The Cireson User Device Affinity app easily allows an SCCM admin to view and manage the relationships between users and devices.
The process has been completed outside the SCCM Console, reducing complexity and confusion. Download and read more details about this tool.
SCCM ConfigMgr User Centric app – Makes App Deployment Easy
The Cireson User-Centric – Community app allows you to identify which applications are ready for user-centric software delivery easily. For those that aren’t ready, automatically add the requirement to the application to support user-centric software delivery.
Download and Read More details about this tool from here.
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Anoop is Microsoft MVP! He is a Solution Architect in enterprise client management 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. E writes about ConfigMgr, Windows 11, Windows 10, Azure AD, Microsoft Intune, Windows 365, AVD, etc…
Hi. ANOOP,
Just had a doubt installing this Tool hope it will work only on the machine which we have sccm console installed. Will that also shows on the other machines also who have installed the sccm console 2012
Please let me know I would like to try..
Thanks in advance..
Yes, SMS Provider access is required hence console.
Anoop, Just looked at the link for the Cireson free tools. I don’t believe they are free anymore sir.
Thank you for the update, Sir. I will update the post to include this update a bit later.
The SCCM ticker tool does not appear to be available any more. There is one for Service Manager in the Community Tools.
A real pity as the SCCM Ticker was very handy.
Does anyone have the installer for the server and client?