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Locked ForeFront Client Management Snap-In not showing Managed clients

  • Tuesday, September 21, 2010 9:36 PM
     
     
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    I have deployed 4 clients (to server 2003's) in the Management console, I am unable to see the clients, I know that

    I can "manage" them, because if I change the policy I see the change refelected in the clients,  but the console shows 0 managed.  This is a brand new installation.

    Clients were deployed, 1 is the client where the Forefront server is, 1 was deployed manually from running the clientinstall, 1 was installed using the Client Deployment Utility that some kind soul provided, and the last, well I was waiting to see if it would deploy using the policy.  The policy is using a security group, but none in the security group have deployed.

    Any ideas of where I can check? There are no errors with any snap in, loooking at logs really does not seem to show much.

     

       

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    • Wednesday, September 22, 2010 9:20 AM
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      Hi,

       

      Thank you for the post.

       

      How do you deploy FCS? we recommend you deploy FCS agent with WSUS. You may perform the following steps to achieve your goal:

       

      Step1 - in WSUS: Approve FCS package

      Step2 - on Server: Create and deploy FCS policy

      Step3 -  client: will install FCS agent from WSUS

       

       For more information, please refer to this deployment guide: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb404255.aspx

       

      Regards,

      Nick Gu - MSFT
         
      • Saturday, September 25, 2010 2:51 PM
         
         
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        do you have any idea about the agents not showing up under the management console?
           
        • Monday, September 27, 2010 2:09 AM
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          Hi,

           

          Thank you for the update.

           

          As far as I know, there maybe two reasons: there were issues during setup while importing the Management pack and machines appearing as pending action-uninstall not updating after attribute discovery. Below is some information about each of
          these, perhaps you can take a look and see if either apply in your environment.

          Issues with the Management Pack Mom has Computer Attributes and based upon those computer attribute machines are placed into Computer Groups. A machine appears in the FCS console when it is a member of the Forefront Client Security Agents group.

          Check the Computer Attributes
          1. In the MOM Administration console; Expand Management Packs > Computer Attributes
          2. Verify that Microsoft Forefront Client Security Agent appears on the left and is Enabled

          Check Computer Groups
          1. In the MOM Administration console; Expand Management Packs > Computer Groups
          2. Verify that Microsoft Forefront Client Security Agents group on the left and is Rules Enabled = Yes
          3. Choose Properties, select Formula Tab
          4. Verify that AttributeValue(Microsoft Forefront Client Security Agent) appears in the textbox

          Machines in Pending Action-Uninstall
          1. In the MOM Administration console; Expand Administration > Computers > Pending Actions
          2. If there are machines listed on the right, look at the Pending Action and see if it says “Uninstall Agent” and/or if the Desired Management Mode is “Unmanaged”

          Meanwhile, you should remove and reinstall the MOM agent from the affected systems. For more information, please refer to the following article.

          http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb643193.aspx

           

          Regards,

          Nick Gu - MSFT
             
          • Tuesday, September 28, 2010 2:34 AM
             
             
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            Well went through the steps.

            1. Computer Attributes / Security Agent is enabled

            Computer Groups.

            All groups show enabled.  If I right click Forefront agents, it has the 4 servers listed in the included section. Attribute value is there. There is a forefront group under discovered group.

            The are also listed under MOM Agents

            They are listed under Administration / All Computers and under Agent Managed Group.

            I have tried to remove/reinstall agents on 2, with no change.

            Still not showing up in managed