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Need help with collection
Need help with collection
- I have a collection that had some computers in it, but I took those computers out and added only 4. The collection is set to update every hour and now, for some reason, it won't update. It still shows the previous 10 machines that were in there and has an hour glass on the collection and it's sub collection.
Also, our collection that shows our domain is doing the same thing along with all its sub-collections. This hasn't happened until now. All collections update on an hourly basis and we have seen no issues with it.
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- I also had my query pointed at an AD Collection and I have 6 of 10 computers not showing in the collection at all, but I see all 10 computers in the AD OU.
- I found 2 collections that were set to update every minute, but they didn't really have anything in there. I set those back to 1 hour. I am still seeing this issue though.
I just got it working by restarting the SMS_EXECUTIVE and the SMS SITE COMPONENT MANAGER services. Once this was done, that fixed my problem with the collections not updating.
That just leaves me with the question: Why are computers not shwing up in my collection if it's based off of an AD Entry?
Edit: I don't even see this computer in any of our collections period. I'm not sure why these wouldn't show up.- Edited byboydgrossii Monday, November 02, 2009 5:29 PMMore info
- Hi,
For the AD group there are some special prerequisites. Please check my post for the details:
http://www.jannesalink.com/blog1.php/2008/10/16/deploy-sccm-packages-based-on-active-dir
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- I'm not sure if that is explaining why computers aren't populating in my AD Collection in SCCM at all though. In AD, I have computers in containers that don't show up in SCCM at all.
- Hi,
I see....check the adsys.log to verify if the AD System Discovery is succesful.
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- What should I look for?
- Does SCCM automatically populate "everything" from AD or does it skip certain things based off of certain criteria?
- There are 4 differenct AD discovery methods: User, System, System Group, Security group. and no, not "everything" is copied from AD. To begin with, some things in AD simply make no sense to have in ConfigMgr. Other things could prevent objects from being pulled in, like security in AD could prevent the Configmgr server from reading a specific OU for example.
Instead of trying to tell you want it cannot do, what is it that you want it to do, and we might be able to lead you to the way to get that done.
Standardize. Simplify. Automate. - I was just trying to get our numbers to match the ones in AD as much as possible. We get asked the question "If we show x computers in these areas, why do you only show y computers?"
I did not have the answer to that. I figured that some would be old computers and such, but there were computers that were still being used regularly that weren't added and I had no clue what was happening.
