Script (or manually force) client to stop running an advertisement?
- From: Steph Jones <s.e.jones@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 02:04:09 -0700 (PDT)
Hi,
We have an SMS 2003 site, which has various collections polling at
regular intervals OU's and Security Groups from our Active Directory.
This creates a nice reasonably automated approach where workstations
will be pushed advertisements for software automatically when
workstations are imaged/re-imaged.
One problem is we have one particular workstation that is constantly
trying to run an advertisement. It never outright succeeds or fails,
and so therefore is constantly 'checking in' and trying to run this
advertisement (it always reports 'the program was able to start but
the system restarted unexpectedly....'. However, the workstation is in
fact, not re-starting at all!!!
When we checked locally, the software that is assigned to the
advertisement has actually installed some time ago and runs fine. So,
it's for some reason it's never properly flagged back as either
'successful', or 'failed'.
We don't really want to remove the workstation from the OU/collection
for this advertisement, as it's all automated (workstation gets
imaged, gets advert for run once, and then flags back to SMS whether
it was 'successful' or 'failed'). However, is there anyway we can
script or manually force that workstation to basically now just report
back to SMS that the software has either been 'successful' or outright
'failed', so it stops trying to repeatedly run this advertisement?
We now need to get new software advertised and assigned to it (amongst
others in other collections), and of course whilst others are all
working, this one can't because it won't run any other advertisements
until this one has properly reported back as either 'successful' or
outright 'failed'.
Any ideas?
Steph
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