SCCM How to find out Package Source Path Advertisement Flags ConfigMgr

SCCM How to find out Package Source Path Advertisement Flags ConfigMgr. Search folders are very useful (especially) when you are new to an already established environment with thousands of packages and advertisements in different subfolders.

In most environments, you can see only 2 or 3 advertisements if you click on the advertisements tab. So to check other advertisements, you’ve to go through each subfolder. Is that feasible? No.

SCCM How to find out Package Source Path Advertisement Flags ConfigMgr

Through this blog post, I’m trying to answer the below questions.

a. How can you get all the advertisements under one folder?

b. How can you get all the packages under one folder?

c. How to find out the Advertisement Flag details? and How to filter a “search folder” to list down the advertisements which meets different criteria?

d. How to find out the “Package Source Path” for the packages?

e. How to find out the Types of Packages available in the environment?

a. How can you get all the advertisements under one folder?

1. Create a search folder by right-clicking on the “advertisements” node.

2. To see all the advertisements in the environment, skip STEP 1 and 2.

Step 3, Select the check box “Search all folders under this feature”

Step 4, Enter the name of the search folder. In my case, I’ve named it “All Advertisements.”

Click OK.

3. Go back to the advertisement node and click on the “All Advertisements” search folder. On the right-hand side panel, you can see all the advertisements in the environment.

b. How can you get all the packages under one folder?

1. Perform the steps mentioned above, but this is done by right-clicking on the “Packages” node in the console.

c. How to find out the Advertisement Flags details? and How to filter a “search folder” to list down the advertisements which meets different criteria ?

More details on Advertisement Flag codes – MSDN Link

1. Right-click on “All Advertisements” search folder –> View –> Add/Remove Columns

2. Add “Advertisement Flags” by right-clicking on the “All Advertisements” search folder created earlier.

2. If you want to list down the advertisements with advertisement flag value “524,288.”

Right-click on the search folder and click on “modify search folder criteria.”

Step 1: Select “Advertisement Flags”

Step 2: Click on “<text to find>” value

Step 3: Enter the advertisement flag value “524288” (without “ symbol) and click the “Add” button. Click OK.

Step 2: Click on the search folder “Advertisement Flag – 524288”. This will list down the advertisements with a flag value equal to 524288.

d. How to find out the “Package Source Path” for the packages?

1. Right-click on the “All Packages” search folder –> View –>Add/Remove Columns

2. Select “Package Source Path” on Add/Remove Column windows and click on the “Add->” button, then click OK

3. That is it. We are done. Now you can see the package source path details on the right-side panel of the console.

4. If you want to export these details, click on Export List and save the file.

e. How to find out the Types of Packages available in the environment ?

More details about Package Types – MSDN Link

1. List down all the Virtual Application Packages (APP-V) in the environment.

Step 1: Right-click on the search folder and click “modify search folder criteria.”

Step 2: Package Type for “virtual application package” = “7”

Step 3: Select the Package Type –>Text to Find –> “7” –> Add –> OK

2. See the list of virtual application packages on the right-side panel of the console.

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