Re: SMS rediscovery

In article <1121172922.616929.301160@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
buketwhite@xxxxxxxxx says...
> Hi,
>
> I have a question to ask about SMS discovery.
> I have workstation in my domain, SMS dicovered it, and set the "client"
> column to "Yes". then I delete the computer from SMS and re-run AD
> discovery, SMS rediscovers the workstation successfully but it doesn't
> set the column "Client" to YES again. I went on the client machine and
> control panel>system management, I can see that it has the right site
> code in the advanced tab. everything looks fine apart from SMS doesn't
> see that the SMS client is installed on that machine.
>
> Any help much appriciated.
>
> Thanks
>
>
Active directory doesn't know about sms clients, the Active directory
database doesn't have that data.
The client column should get updated at the next heartbeat discovery
cycle. (By default once every 7 days)
--
Kim Oppalfens
MVP SMS
Computacenter Belgium
.

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