You should change the sleep timer to something more reasonable so SCCM has the time necessary to install software.
On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 10:54 AM, Miller, Todd <todd-mil...@uiowa.edu> wrote: > All the discussion of Maintenance Windows has me thinking about a > significant gap in the SCCM product. > > > > Maintenance windows are pretty terrific for clients that are always on > like servers, but are not so hot for clients that go to sleep. It is > missing in the product to schedule a wake up at the start of the next MW if > there is a deferred installation pending. > > > > It would be cool if someone with skillz could write a shim that computes > whether there is a deferred installation waiting for the next MW. The shim > could subscribe to sleep/shutdown event and run just prior to the machine > going to sleep and schedule the computer to wake at the start of the MW if > there is a deferred installation pending. > > > > It doesn’t solve the laptop problem with MWs, but it sure would make them > more reliable for plugged in but sleep enabled computers. > > > > I know you can set the power settings to wake the computer up for the MW, > but there are two problems with that. The first is that the computer will > frequently wake up unnecessarily with no scheduled task to perform. The > second problem is that the go back to sleep timer is usually set to 2 > minutes which is frequently too short for SCCM to discover it has a task to > run > > > ------------------------------ > 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. > ------------------------------ > >
