Unknown computers and SCCM beta 2

[donkeytaunter]

Hi, I am new to SCCM, and have a few questions on unknown computers. I just went through the guides and installed SCCM and ran the AD system discovery. I am wondering why a few of the machines in my lab are coming up as unknown. I have made sure the firewalls are off. I have one that says unknown computer x86, and one with unknown computer x64. The domain controller and the SCCM box come up fine. I can not install the clients on any of the machines that are unknown to test apps, and updates. FYI, one is a XP box and one is a Server 2008 box.

 

Please assist

 

Thanks

[Peter van der Woude]

Those are the "symbolic" clients that represent "Unknown computers" in SCCM (this already excisted in SCCM 2007). When you enable Unknown Computer Support for OS Deployment then these clients are used to Advertise to.

[donkeytaunter]

Peter, I am not trying to do a deployment to this system. They already have OS on them. I just would like to install the client and then test pushing applications. Unfortunatly it will not let me install the client to unknown machines.

 

Thanks

[Eswar Koneti]

Peter, I am not trying to do a deployment to this system. They already have OS on them. I just would like to install the client and then test pushing applications. Unfortunatly it will not let me install the client to unknown machines.

 

Thanks

 

 

which collection are you looking at ? can you check collection "all systems" and see if you can find the computers (XP and server 2008) ? do you computer names from the colleciton ?