Maintenance tasks default settings in System Center 2012 and System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager

Like any other systems, SCCM environment needs a regular maintenance directly or indirectly. Otherwise the system will not function as it should then cause whole lot of issues. The maintenance tasks will help to keep the system in a healthy state.

So what are the tasks we need to perform?

Well, some of the maintenance tasks per-configured by default setup and some need to be configured by the admins as required.

Below table lists all the default values for all available maintenance tasks

Maintenance task	Central administration site	Primary site	#of days	Days	Time	Secondary site
Backup Site Server	√	Ø	Not available	Every day	02:00–05:00	Not available
Check Application Title with Inventory Information	√	√	Not available	Saturday	0:00–05:00	Not available
Clear Install Flag	Not available	Ø	21	Sunday	00:00–05:00	Not available
Delete Aged Application Request Data	Not available	√	30	Saturday	00:00–05:00	Not available
Delete Aged Client Operations	√	√	7	Every day	00:00–05:00	Not available
Delete Aged Client Presence History	√	√	30	Every day	00:00–05:00	Not available
Delete Aged Collected Files	Not available	√	90	Saturday	00:00–05:00	Not available
Delete Aged Computer Association Data	Not available	√	30	Saturday	00:00–05:00	Not available
Delete Aged Delete Detection Data	√	√	5	Every day	00:00–05:00	Not available
Delete Aged Distribution Point Usage Data (available only in Microsoft System Center 2012 R2)	√	√	90	Every day	00:00–05:00	Not available
Delete Aged Device Wipe Record	Not available	√	180	Saturday	00:00–05:00	Not available
Delete Aged Devices Managed by the Exchange Server Connector	Not available	√	Not available	Saturday	00:00–05:00	Not available
Delete Aged Discovery Data	Not available	√	90	Saturday	00:00–05:00	Not available
Delete Aged Endpoint Protection Health Status History Data	Not available	√	365	Saturday	00:00–05:00	Not available
Delete Aged Enrolled Devices	Not available	√	90	Saturday	00:00–05:00	Not available
Delete Aged Inventory History	Not available	√	90	Saturday	00:00–05:00	Not available
Delete Aged Log Data	√	√	30	Every day	00:00–05:00	√
Delete Aged Notification Task History	Not available	√	10	Every day	00:00–05:00	Not available
Delete Aged Replication Summary Data	√	√	90	Every day	00:00–05:00	√
Delete Aged Replication Tracking Data	√	√	7	Every day	00:00–05:00	√
Delete Aged Software Metering Data	Not available	√	5	Every day	00:00–05:00	Not available
Delete Aged Software Metering Summary Data	Not available	√	270	Sunday	00:00–05:00	Not available
Delete Aged Status Messages	√	√	Not available	Everyday	00:00–05:00	Not available
Delete Aged Threat Data	Not available	√	30	Saturday	00:00–05:00	Not available
Delete Aged Unknown Computers	Not available	√	30	Saturday	00:00–05:00	Not available
Delete Aged User Device Affinity Data	Not available	√	90	Saturday	00:00–05:00	Not available
Delete Inactive Client Discovery Data	Not available	Ø	90	Saturday	00:00–05:00	Not available
Delete Obsolete Alerts	√	√	30	Every day	00:00–05:00	Not available
Delete Obsolete Client Discovery Data	Not available	Ø	7	Saturday	00:00–05:00	Not available
Delete Obsolete Forest Discovery Sites and Subnets	√	√	30	Saturday	00:00–05:00	Not available
Delete Unused Application Revisions	Not available	√	60	Every day	00:00–05:00	Not available
Evaluate Provisioned AMT Computer Certificates	Not available	√	42	Saturday	00:00–05:00	Not available
Monitor Keys	√	√	Not available	Sunday	00:00–05:00	Not available
Rebuild Indexes	Ø	Ø	Not available	Sunday	00:00–05:00	Ø
Summarize Installed Software Data	Not available	√	Not available	Every day	00:00–05:00	Not available
Summarize Software Metering File Usage Data	Not available	√	Not available	Every day	00:00–05:00	Not available
Summarize Software Metering Monthly Usage Data	Not available	√	Not available	Everyday	00:00–05:00	Not available
Update Application Catalogue Tables	√	√	Not available	Not available	Every 1,380 minutes	Not available

(Source: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2897050 )

Key:

√ = By default, enabled

Ø = By default, not enabled

Important thing to remember is when we set some of the settings specially like delete aged inventory data, the number of days should be higher than the actual discovery.