ConfirMgr 2012 Console – search feature (part 2)

In the blog of last week about the search feature I described how you are able to use the search tab in the ribbon and which options are there. This blog in the series about the Configuration Manager 2012 Console will have a  focus on the available criteria and options while you are searching for objects.

Next to working from the search tab, you are also able to refine a search by clicking on Add Criteria next to the search field. Depending on which  node you are the selectable criteria will be different. This way you are helped while searching for the objects you need.

Add criteria

Let’s walk through the nodes in the Assets and Compliance workspace and see what criteria you are able to search for;

Users node

In the users node you are able to search for; Domain, Name, Resource ID or Resource type. In the next two figures you see how adding these criteria will help you searching for an object.

Select Criteria and options
Search results after adding criteria and options

Just an example using the add criteria in the in a node. The following table shows the available search criteria for the user node together with the search options.

Criteria Search Options
  • Domain
  • Name

 

String
  • Contains
  • Does not contain
  • Starts with
  • Equals
  • Does not equal
  • Ends with
  • Is empty
  • is not empty
  • Resource ID
String / number
  • Is less than or equal to
  • Is greater than or equal to
  • Is between
  • Equals
  • Does not equal
  • Resource Type
n/a
  • User
  • User Group
  • User
  • System

Devices node

Searching in the devices node will give you the opportunity to search on much more criteria that are related to devices. Depending on the criteria you have different options that can be used.

 

Criteria Search Options
  • Active Directory Site
  • AMT Version
  • Client Version
  • Exchange ActiveSync Access
  • Operating System
  • Device Type
  • Domain
  • Endpoint Protection Antispyware   Signature Last Version
  • Endpoint Protection Antispyware Definition Last Version
  • Endpoint Protection Client Version
  • Endpoint Protection Deployment   Description
  • Endpoint Protection Deployment   State
  • Endpoint Protection Engine Version
  • Endpoint Protection Remediation   Version
  • Endpoint Protection Remediation   Status
  • Last Infected Threat
  • Endpoint Protection Policy   Application Description
  • Endpoint Protection Policy   Application State
  • Endpoint Protection Policy Name
  • Exchange Organization
  • Exchange Server
  • Last Installation Error
  • Management Point
  • Name
  • Phone Number
  • Exchange Server Policy Application   Status
  • Site Code
  • ID
String
  • Contains
  • Does not contain
  • Starts with
  • Equals
  • Does not equal
  • Ends with
  • Is empty
    is not empty
  • AMT Status
n/a
  • Not Provisioned
  • Provisioned
  • Not supported
  • Detected
  • Externally Provisioned
  • Unknown
  • Client Activity
n/a
  • Inactive
  • Active
  • Client Check Result
n/a
  • Failed
  • No results
  • Passed
  • Remediation
n/a
  • Fail
  • Successful
  • Endpoint Protection Antispyware   Enabled
  • Endpoint Protection Antivirus   Enabled
  • Endpoint Protection Enabled
  • AMT Provisioning
n/a
  • Disabled
  • Enabled
  • Endpoint Protection Antispyware   Signature Last Update Time (UTC)
  • Endpoint Protection Antispyware Definition Last Update Time (UTC)
  • Endpoint Protection Last Full Scan   End Time (UTC)
  • Endpoint Protection Last Full Scan   Start Time (UTC)
  • Last Infection Time (UTC)
  • Endpoint Protection Last Quick   Scan End Time (UTC)
  • Endpoint Protection Last Quick   Scan Start Time (UTC)
  • Last Activity
  • Client Check Result Change
  • Heartbeat DDR
  • Hardware Scan
  • Policy Request
  • Software Scan
  • Status Message
  • Last Success Sync Time To Exchange   Server
  • Last Request Attempt
  • Last X day(s)
  • Last X Week(s)
  • Last X Month(s)
  • Last 1 Year
  • Specific Date
  • Is less than or equal to
  • Is greater than or equal to
  • Is between
  • Endpoint Protection Pending Full   Scan
  • Endpoint Protection Pending Manual   Steps
  • Endpoint Protection Pending   Offline Reboot
  • Blocked
  • Client
  • Virtual Machine
n/a
  • No
  • Yes
  • Resource ID
String / number
  • Is less than or equal to
  • Is greater than or equal to
  • Is between
  • Equals
  • Does not equal
  • Resource Type
n/a
  • User
    User Group
    User
    System
  • Last Status
n/a
  • Started
  • Not Started
  • Failed
  • Skipped
  • Retry
  • Complete
  • Wipe Status
n/a
  • Cancelling Wipe
  • Pending Wipe
  • Wipe Successful

As you can see the search options related to Endpoint Protection, Client health (status) and Exchange are huge.

User / Device Collections node

Searching for user and or device based collections can be done from the User Collection node or the Device Collection node with again depending on the criteria you have different options that can be used.

Criteria Search Options
  • Collection ID
  • Comment
  • Referenced Collections
  • Limiting Collection
  • Class name
  • Name
String
  • Contains
  • Does not contain
  • Starts with
  • Equals
  • Does not equal
  • Ends with
  • Is empty
    is not empty
  • Collection Type
n/a
  • Device
  • Other
  • User
  • Current Status
n/a
  • Querying
  • Refreshing
  • Saving
  • Node
  • Ready
  • Deleting
  • Appending Member
  • Evaluating
  • Awaiting Refresh
  • Date modified
  • Membership change time
  • Update time
  • Last X day(s)
  • Last X Week(s)
  • Last X Month(s)
  • Last 1 Year
  • Specific Date
  • Is less than or equal to
  • Is greater than or equal to
  • Is between
  • Members Visible on Site
  • Member count
String / number
  • Is less than or equal to
  • Is greater than or equal to
  • Is between
  • Equals
  • Does not equal

User State Migration node

The User state migration node hold the saved user states of devices that have been refreshed with a new installation of Windows. Searching for User State Migration Computer associations can be done by using the next search options.

Criteria Search Options
  • Migration ID
  • Destination Last Logon User Domain
  • Destination User
  • Destination MAC
  • Destination Computer
  • Site Code
  • Source Last Logon User Domain
  • Source User
  • Source MAC
  • Source Computer
  • State Path

 

 

String
  • Contains
  • Does not contain
  • Starts with
  • Equals
  • Does not equal
  • Ends with
  • Is empty
    is not empty
  • Migration Status
n/a
  • Completed
  • Not Started
  • In progress
  • Migration Type
n/a
  • In-place
  • Side-by-side
  • Destination Client Resource ID
  • Source Client Resource ID

 

String / number
  • Is less than or equal to
  • Is greater than or equal to
  • Is between
  • Equals
  • Does not equal
  • State creation date
  • State deletion date
  • Migration date

 

  • Last X day(s)
  • Last X Week(s)
  • Last X Month(s)
  • Last 1 Year
  • Specific Date
  • Is less than or equal to
  • Is greater than or equal to
  • Is between

AND / OR Boolean operators

When searching for the same criteria more than one time you will see that the default Boolean operator will be changed from AND to OR like shown in the figure below.

Boolean operators

In the one of the next blogs about Configuration Manager 2012 and the search options we look at the rest of the nodes in the Assets and Compliance workspace.

Earlier blogs in the series about the Configuration Manager 2012 console can be found here:

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