This article is part of an ongoing series about Compliance Settings. This article will focus on using compliance settings to ensure that all of your devices have the most up-to-date version of a particular piece of software. I am going to use the VMware Horizon View Client as my example.
Application Collection
First, we must isolate all devices with a particular software installed, regardless of version. To do that, create a new collection. Create a query rule for membership. Now, you can either hit the “Show Query Language” button and paste in this code:
select
SMS_R_SYSTEM.ResourceID,SMS_R_SYSTEM.ResourceType,SMS_R_SYSTEM.Na
me,SMS_R_SYSTEM.SMSUniqueIdentifier,SMS_R_SYSTEM.ResourceDomainOR
Workgroup,SMS_R_SYSTEM.Client from SMS_R_System inner join
SMS_G_System_ADD_REMOVE_PROGRAMS on
SMS_G_System_ADD_REMOVE_PROGRAMS.ResourceID =
SMS_R_System.ResourceId inner join
SMS_G_System_ADD_REMOVE_PROGRAMS_64 on
SMS_G_System_ADD_REMOVE_PROGRAMS_64.ResourceID =
SMS_R_System.ResourceId where
SMS_G_System_ADD_REMOVE_PROGRAMS.DisplayName like “%VMware
Horizon View%” or SMS_G_System_ADD_REMOVE_PROGRAMS_64.DisplayName
like “%VMware Horizon View%””
Now, when you click “Show Query Design” and select the “Criteria” tab, it should look like this:
You can double click the two criteria and change your application name. Remember to leave the percent signs if you leave the operator as “is like”. The correct application names can be found by using the Resource Explorer for a device. You will need the second “Install Applications (64)” if the application appears under that section in Resource Explorer.
Once we have our application collection built, we can define the compliance setting.
Compliance Setting
First, we need to create our configuration item. To do that, navigate to the compliance settings area of the console and click “Create Configuration Item” from the ribbon. Give the item a name and description. When you get to the “Settings” section, click Give the setting a name, and change “Setting Type” to file system. Click browse, and find the file in question. You can connect to another computer (as long as remote management is turned on) and also find the file. Now, check the “The selected file must be compliant with the following rules” check box. Click “Add” and select the correct setting. Normally, version would be a great thing to use. I have to use “Date modified” because VMware put letters in their version number, and SCCM can’t handle those.
Remember that when the devices meet this requirement, they are considered “compliant”, so use the version that you want your devices to have when setting this up. When complete, your windows should look similar to this:
We have one slight problem here, which we will be able to fix after clicking OK. Because this application is installed in “Program Files (x86)”, we get the wrong environment variable. So after clicking OK, change %ProgramFiles(x86)% to %ProgramFiles% and check the “This file or folder is associated with a 64-bit application” check box and click OK.
You can now click through the rest of the Configuration Item wizard.
Now we need to create our baseline. Navigate to the “Configuration Baselines” section of Compliance Settings, and click “Create Configuration Baseline” in the ribbon. Give your baseline a name, click the “Add” button, and select “Configuration Items”. Find the configuration item that we just created, click “Add”, then click OK.
All that is left now is to deploy the baseline to the collection we created earlier. After deployment, you can create a collection of non-compliant computers by selecting the deployment, then clicking “Create New Collection” in the ribbon and selecting “Non-compliant”.
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