What's New in BI for SCCM
The 6 most recent releases are listed below. For older versions, see the release archive.
Version 18.0 April 5, 2026
Section titled Version 18.0 April 5, 2026Release Date: April 5, 2026
AppSource Version: 1024
Summary
Section titled “Summary”BI for SCCM v18 is a small maintenance release that adds a single semantic model enhancement: support for the XTS-AES 256 With Diffuser encryption method. This addresses a gap in encryption data support introduced in v17.
Semantic Model Changes
Section titled “Semantic Model Changes”- Added XTS-AES 256 With Diffuser to the Encryption Method values on the Computer Logical Disk object.
Important Notes
Section titled “Important Notes”- Several customers have reported upgrade failures that lost their custom reports. Always back up your custom reports before upgrading.
Version 17.0 February 20, 2026
Section titled Version 17.0 February 20, 2026Release Date: February 20, 2026
AppSource Version: 1023
Summary
Section titled “Summary”BI for SCCM v17 expands hardware and BitLocker visibility while improving encryption reporting clarity. This release introduces the new Computer Network Card object, enhances Logical Disk encryption reporting, and improves MAC address accuracy by filtering virtual adapters. It also replaces the Is Encrypted field with updated protection and conversion status fields for more precise BitLocker state reporting. Review the breaking changes if you reference encryption fields in custom reports.
Product Enhancements
Section titled “Product Enhancements”- Updated the Summary page by replacing Encryption Status with Protection Status.
- Updated the Device Info page to exclude Network Card Service values of AsyncMac to prevent duplicate MAC address reporting from virtual adapters.
- Enhanced the Encryption Status page with additional BitLocker visibility fields.
New Features
Section titled “New Features”- Added new object Computer Network Card to provide visibility into network adapter details.
Semantic Model Changes
Section titled “Semantic Model Changes”- Added Viewer Name field to the Authorization object.
- Added new fields to the Computer Network Card object: Network Card Count, Network Card ID, Network Card Manufacturer, Network Card Name, Network Card Service.
- Added new fields to the Computer Logical Disk object: Conversion Status, Encryption Method, Encryption Readiness, Encryption Status, Protection Status.
- Removed Is Encrypted field from the Computer Logical Disk object. See the Important Notes section.
Important Notes
Section titled “Important Notes”- Removed Is Encrypted field from the Computer Logical Disk object. This is a breaking change. Custom reports referencing this field must be updated.
- A new hardware class must be enabled in SCCM to populate BitLocker-related fields on the Encryption Status page.
- Updated BitLocker status logic to align Encryption Status, Protection Status, and Conversion Status values for clearer reporting states.
- Encryption Readiness now reflects volume initialization state, where IsVolumeInitializedForProtection = 0 is reported as Not Ready and 1 is reported as Ready.
- Several customers have reported upgrade failures that lost their custom reports. Always back up your custom reports before upgrading.
Version 16.0 June 23, 2025
Section titled Version 16.0 June 23, 2025Release Date: June 23, 2025
AppSource Version: 1022
Summary
Section titled “Summary”BI for SCCM v16 is a small maintenance release. It prevents several expensive metadata queries from running when their corresponding sync parameters are disabled, reducing unnecessary sync work.
Bug Fixes
Section titled “Bug Fixes”- Fixed an issue where metadata queries could still run partially even when their parameters were set to disable them. These expensive queries no longer run when Application Deployment Status Enable, Configuration Baseline Status Enable, Software Update Deployment Status Enable, or Package Deployment Status Enable is set to False.
Important Notes
Section titled “Important Notes”- Several customers have reported upgrade failures that lost their custom reports. Always back up your custom reports before upgrading.
Version 15.0 June 15, 2025
Section titled Version 15.0 June 15, 2025Release Date: June 15, 2025
AppSource Version: 1021
Summary
Section titled “Summary”BI for SCCM v15 is a small maintenance release that fixes two issues affecting a limited number of customers and aligns the Chassis Type definition with Microsoft’s documentation.
Product Enhancements
Section titled “Product Enhancements”- Updated the Chassis Type definition to align with Microsoft documentation.
Bug Fixes
Section titled “Bug Fixes”- Resolved a bug where some environments experienced sync failures with the error message “There is already an object named ‘#LastLogonUser’ in the database”.
Important Notes
Section titled “Important Notes”- Several customers have reported upgrade failures that lost their custom reports. Always back up your custom reports before upgrading.
Version 14.0 March 9, 2025
Section titled Version 14.0 March 9, 2025Release Date: March 9, 2025
AppSource Version: 1020
Summary
Section titled “Summary”BI for SCCM v14 adds several customer-requested capabilities, including new Maintenance Windows and Software Asset Intelligence objects.
Semantic Model Changes
Section titled “Semantic Model Changes”- Added new object Maintenance Windows. New fields: Description, Duration (m), Is Enabled, Is GMT, Maintenance Window Count, Maintenance Window Name, Maintenance Window Type, Recurrence Type, Start Time.
- Added new object Software Asset Intelligence. New fields: AI Category, AI Family, AI Publisher, AI Software Name, AI Tag, AI Version.
- Added new object Software Asset Intelligence Tag. New field: AI Tag.
- Added Adv ID field to the Package Deployment Details object.
Important Notes
Section titled “Important Notes”- Several customers have reported upgrade failures that lost their custom reports. Always back up your custom reports before upgrading.
Version 13.0 Jan. 15, 2025
Section titled Version 13.0 Jan. 15, 2025Release Date: January 15, 2025
AppSource Version: 1019
Summary
Section titled “Summary”BI for SCCM v13 adds customer-requested capabilities, including new parameters to disable expensive features that caused timeouts in some environments and a new Application Revisions object.
Product Enhancements
Section titled “Product Enhancements”- Added new semantic model parameters to enable or disable features that caused timeout issues in some environments due to table size or SQL performance: Application Deployment Status Enable (Default: True), Configuration Baseline Status Enable (Default: True), Software Update Deployment Status Enable (Default: True), Package Deployment Status Enable (Default: True).
Semantic Model Changes
Section titled “Semantic Model Changes”- Added new object Application Revisions. New fields: Application Revisions Count, Created By, Date Created, Date Created (Days), Is Latest, Revision.
Important Notes
Section titled “Important Notes”- Several customers have reported upgrade failures that lost their custom reports. Always back up your custom reports before upgrading.