SCCM 2403 and a alerts and an e-mail triggered when any deployment is going out

Question

Hi,

are there any alerts that can be setup so that an email is triggered when deployments or Windows Updates or Package are go out?

For example: an email that would inform the users, each deployments or Windows Updates or Package has gone at X time?

Regards

Answer 1

Short answer: No, emails to informing a user of the recipient of a deployment is not built-in to Configmgr.

If you look at https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/mem/configmgr/core/servers/manage/configure-alerts, you'll see what alerts within the console are meant for, is for informing specific group mailboxes, or ConfigMgr Admins, when "some threshhold was triggered". Those alerts are meant more for monitoring the health of your site, not to email individuals which are the target for a deployment.

That said... if you are looking to 'inform your users of things', you MIGHT want to experiment with the Powershell Application Deployment Toolkit, also known as PSADT. PSADT is NOT a Microsoft product, it's a community / 3rd party tool. But a lot of CM Admins use it. Depending upon how you configure it, for any individual <thing> you are deploying, you 'could' configure it to, for example: popup to the user with a detailed explanation of what it is, and that they can defer installing <thing> up to x times.

Check the 'user experience' section here: https://psappdeploytoolkit.com/features Of course, do not just take my word for it. Download it, play with it IN YOUR LAB or at least only against your 1 or 2 test devices. See if even though it's not "email", it will fulfill your underlying requirement, which I believe to be "inform the users".

<note, PSADT isn't for Windows Updates, but for app deployments, it works fine>