SCCM inactive clients.

[dazza007]

What is the best way to deal with inactive clients.

I have just pushed out software to allsite and too many computers are inactive

I have remotely restarted them and pushed out the client, is there anything I need to be doing or can do to get them back in to SCCM land

[halbaradkenafin]

What is the best way to deal with inactive clients.

I have just pushed out software to allsite and too many computers are inactive

I have remotely restarted them and pushed out the client, is there anything I need to be doing or can do to get them back in to SCCM land

 

Depending on your heartbeat settings you can give them time to check in or manually force the client to check in. There should be a way to automate it with powershell but I've done similar in the past with Impero using a mimic script.

[dazza007]

So that was fun... 152 clients slowly dropping off SCCM. So I have upgraded the schema to allow group policy installation of SCCM and found that only the following script will work to get inactive clients back on SCCM

 

net stop ccmexec

net stop winmgmt

c:\windows\system32\wbem\winmgmt.exe /resetrepository

c:\windows\ccmsetup\ccmsetup.exe /uninstall

"\\\SMS_SMR\Client\ccmsetup.exe" /mp: /logon /noservice SMSSITECODE= SMSCACHESIZE=30000"

 

to reset the WMI repository this needs to run as an administrator