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Hopefully, this post will give you more details to Configure collection size limits for Task Sequence Deployment Settings in Configuration Manager (a.k.a SCCM). This post will help you to configure and manage task sequence deployment settings with Configuration Manager. By configuring collection size limits in deployment verification site settings, will help admins to manage high-risk task sequence deployments and also reduce the accidental deployments that cause unwanted results. These settings warn administrators if they create a high-risk task sequence deployment.
Here lets check the available deployment verification settings –
Available Deployment Verification Settings
You can review and configure size limits in these following deployment verification settings from Primary Site server properties.
Collection size limits: When you target a deployment using configuration manager, configure collection size limits that hide collections if it include more clients than your specified limit.
Default size: When you create a deployment, this setting hides collections by default that include more clients than this limit. You can still see these collections when creating the deployment, but they’re hidden by default. The default value is 100. Select 0 to disable a configuration.
Maximum size: When you create a deployment, this setting always hides collections with more clients than this limit. The default value is 0, which ignores this setting. The Maximum size value must be greater than the Default size value.
How to Configure Collection Size Limits in Task Sequence Deployment Settings | Configuration Manager | SCCM
High-risk deployments are always limited to custom collections, collections that you create, and the built-in All Unknown Computers collection.
Configure Deployment Verification
Let’s start the process to configure deployment verification site settings –
In the Configuration Manager console, Navigate to the Administration\Site Configuration, select Sites, and then select the primary site to configure.
How to Configure Collection Size Limits in Task Sequence Deployment Settings | Configuration Manager | SCCM
In the primary site, Right click and select Properties
How to Configure Collection Size Limits in Task Sequence Deployment Settings | Configuration Manager | SCCM
In Primary Server Properties, move to the Deployment Verification tab. Configure the settings you want to use, and then select OK to save the configuration and close the properties.
How to Configure Collection Size Limits in Task Sequence Deployment Settings | Configuration Manager | SCCM
Results
Lets see the experience, if you set Default size to 100 and the Maximum size to 1000. When you target a deployment, the Select Collection window only displays collections that include fewer than 100 clients. If you clear the setting to Hide collections with a member count greater than the site’s minimum size configuration(100), the window displays collections that include fewer than 1000 clients as shown below.
How to Configure Collection Size Limits in Task Sequence Deployment Settings | Configuration Manager | SCCM
Where is the SCCM Task Sequence Available Deployment Options in Distribution Points Tab? And how to use this option in Task Sequence?
Let’s understand the available options in the Distribution Points tab during task sequence deployment using Configuration Manager. These dynamically depend on the selections in the deployment and attributes of the task sequence, so you may not be able to see all three deployment options available.
This post will help you to select the desired Deployment options on the Distribution Point pane when you deploy the task sequence to a collection.
Introduction
There are three deployment options available in the Distribution Points tab that appears when you deploy a Task Sequence.
Let’s check the options available –
Download content locally when needed by the running task sequence – Specify that clients download content from the distribution point as it’s needed by the task sequence. The client starts the task sequence. When a step in the task sequence requires content, it’s downloaded before the step runs.
Download all content locally before starting task sequence – Specify that clients download all the content from the distribution point before the task sequence runs.
Access content directly from a distribution point when needed by the running task sequence – Specify that clients run the content from the distribution point.
Scenario 1: One Deployment Option
You deploy an Operating System Deployment (OSD) task sequence that wipes the disk and applies an image. During the deployment process, we configured the following settings –
On the Deployment Settings page, for the Make available to the following setting selected Onlymedia and PXE.
SCCM Task Sequence Available Deployment Options in Distribution Points Tab | ConfigMgr
On the Distribution Points page, there is only one deployment option: Download content locally when needed by the running task sequence:
The option to Download all content locally before starting the task sequence is not available because the deployment is made available to media and PXE.
The option to Access content directly from a distribution point when needed by the running task sequence is not available. As all the referenced content in the task sequence is not uses a package share.
SCCM Task Sequence Available Deployment Options in Distribution Points Tab | ConfigMgr
Scenario 2: Two Deployment Options
You deploy an Operating System Deployment (OSD) task sequence that wipes the disk and applies an image. During the deployment process, we configured the following settings –
On the Deployment Settings page, for the Make available to the following setting selected Only Configuration Manager clients.
SCCM Task Sequence Available Deployment Options in Distribution Points Tab | ConfigMgr
On the Distribution Points page, there are two deployment options available:
Download content locally when needed by the running task sequence
Download all content locally before starting task sequence
The option to Access content directly from a distribution point when needed by the running task sequence is not available As all the referenced content in the task sequence is not uses a package share.
SCCM Task Sequence Available Deployment Options in Distribution Points Tab | ConfigMgr
Scenario 3: Three Deployment Options
You deploy a task sequence that has several Install-Package steps associated with it. In that, you need to make sure all the referenced package in the task sequence has the following setting on the Data Access tab selected Copy the content in this package to a package share on distribution points.
For Example – I am accessing the below package for validation.
In the Configuration Manager console, go to the Software Library workspace, expand Application Management, and select the Packages node. Select the package and Right click, choose properties.
SCCM Task Sequence Available Deployment Options in Distribution Points Tab | ConfigMgr
On the Data Access tab of this package properties, selected Copy the content in this package to a package share on distribution points.
SCCM Task Sequence Available Deployment Options in Distribution Points Tab | ConfigMgr
On the Deployment Settings page, for the Make available to the following setting selected OnlyConfiguration Manager clients. This option is the only available. The task sequence is not for OS deployment, because it does not have a boot image associated with it.
SCCM Task Sequence Available Deployment Options in Distribution Points Tab | ConfigMgr
On the Distribution Points page, there are three deployment options available:
Download content locally when needed by the running task sequence
Download all content locally before starting task sequence
Access content directly from a distribution point when needed by the running task sequence
SCCM Task Sequence Available Deployment Options in Distribution Points Tab | ConfigMgr
Modify Existing Task Sequence Deployment Options
To change the deployment options for existing task sequence deployment. You must change the Deployment option “Make available to the following:” in the deployment properties. Here’s how –
In the Configuration Manager console, go to the Software Library workspace, expand Operating Systems, and select Task Sequences. Select the deployed task sequence to modify the deployment, and select Deployments tab.
SCCM Task Sequence Available Deployment Options in Distribution Points Tab | ConfigMgr
When you view the properties of existing task sequence deployment, the Deployment Settings tab appears on properties of the Deployment.
SCCM Task Sequence Available Deployment Options in Distribution Points Tab | ConfigMgr
On the Distribution Points tab, the following settings are available. You can change the deployment options from the drop-down list.
SCCM Task Sequence Available Deployment Options in Distribution Points Tab | ConfigMgr
