http://blogs.technet.com/alipka/archive/tags/SMS/default.aspxTags: SMSen-USCommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Build: 61025.2)http://blogs.technet.com/alipka/archive/2006/04/06/424446.aspxThu, 06 Apr 2006 09:23:00 GMTd5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:424446alipka3http://blogs.technet.com/alipka/comments/424446.aspxhttp://blogs.technet.com/alipka/commentrss.aspx?PostID=424446<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 6pt 0in 3pt 11.35pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US><FONT face=Arial size=2>A lot of people have been asking about it…</FONT></SPAN></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 6pt 0in 3pt 11.35pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US><?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p><FONT face=Arial size=2>&nbsp;</FONT></o:p></SPAN></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 6pt 0in 3pt 11.35pt"><FONT size=2><SPAN lang=EN-US><FONT face=Arial>I have been shortly engaged by a customer using Novell ZENworks and wanting to convert to SMS 2003. One of the functionalities in ZEN lacking in SMS is the possibility to immediately force updates onto clients. SMS has its policy detection cycle, which takes some time, depending on how you configure it. And you can’t go too low with the interval in large environments due to performance constraints. But “where’s a wish there’s always a way” as they say</FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-FAMILY: Wingdings; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings"><SPAN style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings">J</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 6pt 0in 3pt 11.35pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US><FONT face=Arial size=2>You will find some tools on </FONT><A href="http://www.myitforum.com/"><FONT face=Arial size=2>www.myitforum.com</FONT></A><FONT face=Arial size=2> that allow you to right-click on a system/collection and force the detection cycle (as well as a couple of other things). It is not easy to find those tools. I tested some of them and this is what I would advise:</FONT></SPAN></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 6pt 0in 3pt 11.35pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US style="COLOR: navy"><A title=http://www.myitforum.com/inc/upload/11095AdvCliActions.zip href="http://www.myitforum.com/inc/upload/11095AdvCliActions.zip"><FONT face=Arial size=2>http://www.myitforum.com/inc/upload/11095AdvCliActions.zip</FONT></A><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 6pt 0in 3pt 11.35pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US><FONT face=Arial size=2>It is the one of 2 tool packages that has a nice automated installation method AND the only one that allows actions not only on systems, but also collections. </FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-US><FONT face=Arial size=2>Here is a screenshot showing the available options on collection:</FONT></SPAN></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 6pt 0in 3pt 11.35pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US><FONT face=Arial size=2><A href="/photos/alipka/picture424447.aspx" target=_blank><IMG src="/photos/alipka/images/424447/original.aspx" border=0></A><A href="/photos/alipka/picture424447.aspx" target=_blank></A></FONT></SPAN></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 6pt 0in 3pt 11.35pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US style="COLOR: navy"><?xml:namespace prefix = v ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" /><v:shapetype id=_x0000_t75 stroked="f" filled="f" path="m@4@5l@4@11@9@11@9@5xe" o:preferrelative="t" o:spt="75" coordsize="21600,21600"><v:stroke joinstyle="miter"></v:stroke><v:formulas><v:f eqn="if lineDrawn pixelLineWidth 0"></v:f><v:f eqn="sum @0 1 0"></v:f><v:f eqn="sum 0 0 @1"></v:f><v:f eqn="prod @2 1 2"></v:f><v:f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelWidth"></v:f><v:f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelHeight"></v:f><v:f eqn="sum @0 0 1"></v:f><v:f eqn="prod @6 1 2"></v:f><v:f eqn="prod @7 21600 pixelWidth"></v:f><v:f eqn="sum @8 21600 0"></v:f><v:f eqn="prod @7 21600 pixelHeight"></v:f><v:f eqn="sum @10 21600 0"></v:f></v:formulas><v:path o:connecttype="rect" gradientshapeok="t" o:extrusionok="f"></v:path><o:lock aspectratio="t" v:ext="edit"></o:lock></v:shapetype><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 6pt 0in 3pt 11.35pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US><FONT face=Arial size=2>It’s still an open question, which I will try to get an answer to: will this functionality be built into SMS v4? Or will we still need to develop scripts around SMS to provide this.</FONT></SPAN></P><img src="http://blogs.technet.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=424446" width="1" height="1">SMS