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I push out Java using SCCM and the installer installs whichever version is needed for the version of the browser that is installed.

I am currently using this along with SCCM "right click tools". WakeMeOnLan - Turn on computers on your network with Wake-on-LAN packet

When I build my images I build them as virtual machines in Hyper-V. I also use a boot (capture) media iso to run the capture sequence. During deployment, I have the driver packs queried to install the proper drivers during the OSD task sequence.

If you are deploying via SCCM, just set the installer package to uninstall the previous version first. And be sure to set ti to not install if any user is logegd on.

Try spiceworks. If you configure the smnp credentials, you can get reports of what is plugged into which switch ports.

Add another vote for spiceworks

Is a reboot/restart required for an update causing the pc's to be "stuck"? Install the "sccm right click tools" on your workstation with the sccm console and restart those machines.

I would not use any domain admin accounts. We have specific accounts setup for SCCM management. Just as an example, we have a 18 school district. Each school has its own SCCM Primary Site server. Each school (site) is identified with a three digit code (9xx). Our Central Office is "900". Our schools start at "910" and go up numerically. We have two accounts that we use with SCCM. These accounts are "tied" to each site. Site: 920 User accounts: (both accounts have local admin rights to the client computers). SCCM920 - Used for adding computer accounts to AD. SMS920 - Used as the network access account. Now, we still have some clients that for one reason or another will not accept a client push from the server. So, I made two batch files. One uninstalls the client ("ccmsetup.exe /uninstall"). The other one installs the client (with all the command line settings). After checking that the local firewall is off, I run the uninstall, then the install. We started using SMS 2003, then SCCM 2007 and now SCCM 2012. It would probably be easier to have a single primary server and separate secondary servers (each school being a secondary). But, we are a team of 9 techs and only three of us have been really using SMS/SCCM the whole time. Once all of the team is "on board", we may switch over to a more efficient setup (during a version upgrade).

I have not seen that one yet but have used Spiceworks for many years

We build our wim files on virtual machines. Once built and configured as a base image, then we capture the virtual machine.

In addition to previous postings. VNC preinstalled, any local admin accounts you will need, any browser settings. Add in your network (shared or ip) printers, you can remove ones not needed by the user later. I also additionally do the following on all my images. 1. Create a folder named "Software" on the root of C. (c:\software). I have my users "trained" to look there for some specific items. I can just copy to that location over the network (copy c:\tostaff\*.* \\remotepc\c$\software) 2. I have a global security group in AD that I have setup with local admin access on client machines. If any use needs local admin rights, I can just add them to the security group as needed.

One thing I have noticed is the firewall. We have the firewall disabled through GPO and through the service manager. But for some reason, some of the computers that are not updating has the firewall service Disabled but it is Started.

Tried that and it was not working. SCCM 2012 SP1. Clients are a mixture of Windows 7 (32bit and 64bit) and Windows XP SP3. The client does install on Windows XP Sp3 computers. I have a drafting lab (We are a Technical High School) that is running Windows 7 64bit. Out of the 20 computers in that lab, two are migrated over, the rest are not.

We changed from SCCM 2007 to SCCM 2012. We still have both servers running. The problem that we are having is that not all of our computers are getting the client installed. We are averaging around 75% - 80%. Even going through the SCCM 2012 "install client" does not work. We have even tried copying the newer ccmsetup.exe file over to the old server and creating a mandatory task to install it (with the new options). Trying to run the ccmsetup manually (or batch file) does not work either. At my wits end right now as to what to try next. The batch file includes this line. \\sde-sccm916\SMS_P16\Client\ccmsetup.exe SMSSITECODE=P16 FSP=P16 DISABLESITEOPT=True SMSCACHEDIR=Cache SMSCACHEFLAGS=MAXDRIVE

I removed the SUP and WSUS. But I could not get the WID to remove. In the process of a reload right now.