If you enable the power management settings on a collection you have the ability to establish a wakeup time for that set of machines. So, if you want machines to wake up at 2:00am to see if there is any work to be done you can do that. Only downside is...

in SCCM we have 'get' behavior for DCM baselines. So, we can tell what machines are (or are not) compliant for a baseline and then use a query-based collection to find computers that are compliant (or not) and take action on them. As an FYI SCCM V.Next...

Another question that comes up alot. Beta1 is out now but is not meant to be deployed in a production environment. Expect R3 to be released in the second half of 2010.

Digging a bit deeper into R3 and will be posting some stuff. I already talked about what happens if a computer is in two collection with different power policy settings. In summary, SCCM will utilze the least impactful setting. But what if the computer...

Had a short outage while they cut everything over but I am back!