SCCM Administrative Checklist

Please find the list of activities which an Administrator needs to check on SCCM site servers to ascertain the performance of SCCM servers. I have categorized it in different task categories:

• Daily Tasks
• Weekly Tasks
• Monthly Tasks
• Quarterly Tasks
• Half Yearly Tasks
• Yearly Tasks

Daily Tasks include administrative activities as below:

• Monitoring Alerts on SCOM web console
• Ensuring availability of SCCM site servers
• Monitoring & Controlling SCCM site health status
• Monitoring & Controlling client health status
• Ensuring successful backup on all primary servers
• Monitoring site system’s inbox folder(s)
• Ensuring ongoing production packages are copied to DPs
• Monitoring long running queries
• Monitoring Audit messages

Weekly Tasks include administrative activities as below:

• Delete unnecessary objects
• Delete unnecessary files from site systems
• Check disk space on all site systems
• Check advertisement status
• Review Package status
• Review sync between SCCM (Parent-Child) sites
• Clean out old machines and user accounts

Monthly Tasks include administrative activities as below:

• Defragment all sccm site systems
• Perform Database Maintenance
• Review advertisement success/failure rate
• Review SCCM updates & SQL updates on all sccm servers
• Reviewing AD & SMS objects
• Review SCCM site settings on all SCCM servers
• Performance review & tuning
• Stale object deletion from SCCM database

Quarterly Tasks include administrative activities as below:

• Review SCCM Site boundaries
• Review SCCM-OU Mapping
• Review CIC tickets for Infrastructure related issues
• Capacity planning

Half Yearly Tasks include administrative activities as below:

• Package Archival
• SCCM hierarchy review
• Review SCCM security
• Review SCCM reports
• Review security updates on sccm servers

Yearly Tasks include administrative activities as below:

• Perform DR test
• Review SCCM Design
• Review Documentation
• Review Maintenance plan

Thanks!