SCCM Keyboard Shortcuts

SCCM Console Keyboard Shortcuts and a Quick Video Guide Configuration Manager ConfigMgr MEMCM? SCCM console shortcuts are handy in some scenarios like during the demos, training sessions, etc… We can just “show off” that we have some handy SCCM CB Console keyboard shortcuts.

In this video post, we will some very useful SCCM Console keyboard shortcuts. How many of you have used MMC keyboard shortcuts with SCCM 2007 MMC console? Those MMC shortcuts won’t work with SCCM CB versions.

SCCM CB preview version introduced new keyboard shortcuts like CTL + M, CTL + T, etc.. I’m not a frequent user of SCCM console keyboard shortcuts, but I think it could be useful at times.

As you can see in the video below, I have not used MOUSE at all to move around the SCCM CB console.

SCCM Workspace keyboard shortcutsSCCM Console Keyboard Shortcuts

There are some extra shortcut keys available for SCCM CB Preview 1706 version (I’ve shown in the video and the screen capture below).

  • Assets and ComplianceCtrl+1
  • Software Library – Ctrl+2
  • Monitoring – Ctrl+3
  • Administration – Ctrl+4
SCCM Keyboard shortcutWorkspace
Ctrl + 1Assets and Compliance
Ctrl + 2Software Library
Ctrl + 3Monitoring
Ctrl + 4Administration
SCCM Console Keyboard Shortcuts_Workspace SCCM CB Console Keyboard Shortcuts Quick Video Guide Configuration Manager ConfigMgr MEMCM
SCCM Console Keyboard Shortcuts Quick Video Guide Configuration Manager ConfigMgr MEMCM

Ctrl + M – Sets focus on the main (central) pane. You can select each computer as I showed in the video using CTL + M SCCM CB console keyboard shortcut.

Left pane – as I showed in the video – select users, devices, user collections. Ctrl + T – Sets focus to the top node in the navigation pane. If the focus was already in that pane, the focus is set to the last node you visited.

SCCM Console Keyboard Shortcuts Quick Video Guide Configuration Manager ConfigMgr MEMCM
SCCM Console Keyboard Shortcuts Quick Video Guide Configuration Manager ConfigMgr MEMCM
SCCM Keyboard shortcutPurpose – Use of Shortcuts
Ctrl + MSet the focus on the main (central) pane.
Ctrl + TSet the focus to the top node in the navigation pane. If the focus was already in that pane, the focus is set to the last node you visited.
Ctrl + ISet the focus to the breadcrumb bar, below the ribbon.
Ctrl + LSet the focus to the Search field, when available.
Ctrl + DSet the focus to the details pane, when available.
AltChange the focus in and out of the ribbon.

Set focus to search – When the SEARCH option is available. Ctrl + L – Sets focus on the Search field, when available. I have shown this search in the embedded video. Press CTL + T keyboard shortcut to set focus on search and start searching computers/users/Site servers etc…

Focus Summary Details pane to Ctrl + D. Sets focus to the details pane, when available. Press the ALT button from the keyboard to change focus in and out of the ribbon.

Ctrl + I – Sets focus to the breadcrumb bar, below the ribbon. This shortcut will set focus on the path for example \Assets and Compliance\Overview\Users.

SCCM Keyboard Shortcuts
SCCM Keyboard Shortcuts

CMPivot Console Keyboard Shortcuts

Let’s check what are the CMPIvot Keyboard shortcuts available to make the SCCM admin’s life easy.

Keyboard shortcutPurpose
Ctrl + 1Set the focus on the first tab.
Alt + <To back to the address
CMPivot Console Keyboard Shortcuts
CMPivot Console Keyboard Shortcuts

Author

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 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.