Removal of Reclamation Candidates - Activity Pack or Spoke ?

Anton15 · ‎03-01-2023

Hi

We are trying to establish the plugins/solutions/spokes etc. required to implement the automated revocation of unused software installations. These installations were deployed using SCCM / MECM, also we have successfully configured the Service Graph connector for SCCM and are collecting software usage data.

We are now looking to automate the removal of reclamation candidates using SCCM. Given the version of SCCM we have deployed we installed “Client Software Distribution (CSD) 2.0”.

My question is, to automate the removal of reclamation candidates using SCCM, do we need to install the Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager Spoke AND the Microsoft SCCM orchestration activity pack ?

Thanks

Christopher Nan · ‎09-11-2023

For CSD 2.0 you do not need the SCCM Orchestration pack. That is for the old workflow activities for client software distribution.

For SCCM Software Removal you should only need CSD 2.0 and MECM installed.

FYI If you are licensed under SAM Pro vs an explicit license for CSD, you may have an issue deploying this to production. You may want to check your production instance to make sure you are allowed to install CSD 2.0. I just went through this issue with a client, since CSD 2.0 hasn't been mapped to the licensing under SAM Pro it put us a couple weeks behind for SN to allow CSD 2.0 to be installed in their production environment under the SAM Pro license.

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Christopher Nan · ‎09-11-2023

For CSD 2.0 you do not need the SCCM Orchestration pack. That is for the old workflow activities for client software distribution.

For SCCM Software Removal you should only need CSD 2.0 and MECM installed.

FYI If you are licensed under SAM Pro vs an explicit license for CSD, you may have an issue deploying this to production. You may want to check your production instance to make sure you are allowed to install CSD 2.0. I just went through this issue with a client, since CSD 2.0 hasn't been mapped to the licensing under SAM Pro it put us a couple weeks behind for SN to allow CSD 2.0 to be installed in their production environment under the SAM Pro license.

Anton15 · ‎09-12-2023

Hi Christopher

Thanks for advice. When you say 'For SCCM Software Removal you should only need CSD 2.0 and MECM installed', by 'MECM' are you referring to the Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager Spoke ?

Vivek3 · ‎12-17-2023

@Anton15 , Yes 'MECM' is the Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager Spoke.

Also, if you were able to implement SCCM/MECM with CSD 2.0 only for reclamation, can you please share the details of implementation along with any issues/limitations that you observed? I'm trying to implement something similar and it would be a great help.

Thanks.