Running SCCM 2007. I have an important deployment tomorrow AM and I am trying to document some things in case something goes wrong and I need to cancel the deployment.
Currently, the machines have been targeted and the advertisement is created. The clients have received the advertisement and have cached the installation locally. Different collections are prepared and scheduled to run the installation in waves at 5:30, 6:00 and 7:00. Most of the machines will be off at that time so there is a WOL as part of the advertisement. If some problem is discovered at 5:45 and I have to cancel the second and third waves, how would I do that? I imagine I just go in and expire the advertisement, but will a machine waking from sleep do a policy refresh before running the advertisement it has all cached up and ready to install? None of the ideas of blocking the DPs have any value when the content is already cached, right? Would expiring the advertisement cancel the scheduled WOL task? If yes, how much notice is required to cancel the WOL? Would I need to force a policy refresh on the clients or will expiring the advertisement send out a policy refresh on its own? I think it can't because policy is pulled not pushed. I could use right click tools to force a policy refresh on the target collections - but most of the machines will be off and won't wake until they are scheduled to install. So is that it? Expire the advertisement and then use right click tool to force a refresh on the machines that are on? That part I think is easy. I am nervous about the machines that have the advertisement scheduled and content cached already and will be sleeping right up until the advertisement time when they will wake and install. ________________________________ Notice: This UI Health Care e-mail (including attachments) is covered by the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, 18 U.S.C. 2510-2521, is confidential and may be legally privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any retention, dissemination, distribution, or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. Please reply to the sender that you have received the message in error, then delete it. Thank you. ________________________________
