SCCM not installed and more

[Aendni]

Hi everyone,

 

i have a bunch of questions:

 

i have a problem with some computerclients in my collections. It shows me that the client is not installed and that this computer is not approved. The PC is standing right beside my normal pc and i see in the control panel that the sccm client is installed. I can also initate the actions in the sccm window on this pc.

 

i have already update the collection a few times and made a refresh but these PCs are always signed with a NO and N/A.

 

Yesterday i made a deployment on such a PC and it worked so there must be a mistake. Also, i deployed that update (Adobe Reader in that case) and it installed the software 16 hours later... can i speed up that deployment progress? I initate the actions on the PC but, as i said, it took 16 hours.

 

Next question: We have a lot of laptops which are not that often in our domain. The SCCM is deleting obsolete PC after a while. I have a collection called Laptops. My question now is, when these Laptops are deleted and the user is using it again in the domain again, how long will it take that that Laptop is in the Laptop Collection again and will the advertisments of this collection will start immediatly?

 

Next Question: I want to see if a deployment is already installed on all pc i wanted to deploy. I know there is a report for it, but if i have, lets say 6 deployments at a time, do i need to open a report for each deployment? Two days ago, i deployed a program and its still not finished, cause the status is "waiting" or "No status". So what to do in that case?

 

Next question: We installed the SCCM server when we had only XP Clients in our domain. Now we switched to Windows 7 and the result is that we have douple PCs in the collections. Like the name for the XP machine was ABC001 and now its ABC7001. How long will it take that that "old" machine which dont exists anymore wont show up in the collections? Do i have to delete them manually? What if i rename a PC, its showing the two PCs too?! Will that be changed/deleted automaticly?!

 

 

 

 

 

I know, that are a lot of questions, but i think for you guys it will be a easy task

 

 

 

Thanks

 

Andy

[Eswar Koneti]

First : it would be great if you can also put some more info what have you tried? But yes, You can check

 

1) clientlocation.log,locationservices.log to see if the client is assigned to site and abel to talk to MP

2)ensure the boundaries are specified for the managing clients.Do you see sitecode discover works or not from configmgr client properties?

 

Second: N/A means that approval is not applicable for that system .

Are the machines with SMS 2003 client or SCCM Client Installed ?

 

For SMS 2003 clients - they are not subject to approval, so always N/A If systems are discovered that are not SCCM clients - we can't approve non-clients

If Clients are in native mode - no approval

 

Third: Yesterday i made a deployment on such a PC and it worked so there must be a mistake. Also, i deployed that update (Adobe Reader in that case) and it installed the software 16 hours later... can i speed up that deployment progress? I initate the actions on the PC but, as i said, it took 16 hours.

 

Can you take a look at smsts.log to see what went also

 

Fourth: SCCM will delete the computers which are obsolete based on site maintanance tasks how you define.How long will be laptop users online again ? .

As soon as the Laptop users are online and when the DDR runs on(and send inventory info) the laptop PC's,machine willl be discoverd in SCCM console and should be able to get policies and should fall in the collection(laptop) when the updated collection rule runs(if it is query based).

 

Fifth : am not infront of SCCM console now to check somebody can get you .

 

Sixth :If the computers which are renamed from XP to Windows 7(in upgradation),both the machines will be displayed in SCCM console but if the old name computers are not online,you can use the site maintanance tasks .Take a look at this Thread http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sms/thread/899d2248-850a-4180-a2fb-8c2bd4c2e7c0/#7f000493-bd10-4275-a04e-09b0d31a509f .