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  • Tuesday, October 20, 2009 1:02 PMScottY_E Users MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers Medals
     
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    I am in the process of deploying our SCCM Clients out to our Servers and Workstations. I have chosen the AD system Discovery + Client Push method. I pointed the discovery at the OU's where our Workstations and Servers are, it created records in the SCCM Database, and the clients have started to deploy.
    As it is early days in our deployment, I have set the AD system discovery to run every three days to ensure that it detects all of our machines.

    I am now faced with a bit of a mess in my All Systems Collection. I have a whole bunch of duplicate Computer Names, some with the agent = Yes and some without.

    I had hoped that SCCM when running AD system discovery, would be able to match the computername and other attributes to the machines with agents already in the database, and be smart enough to not add these again to the database. This doesnt appear to be the case.

    I am trying to find a happy medium between the AD System Discovery, and running the 'Delete Aged Discovery Data' task. If I have my AD system discovery set to run every 7 days, what would you recommend to set the Delete Aged Discovery Data task to? I am worried that the task will remove alot of valid information from my database based on what Technet mentions in this link http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb693856.aspx

    Anyone managed to find a happy medium?

    Thanks,

    - Scott.
     

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  • Wednesday, October 21, 2009 12:52 PMEric Zhang - MSFTMSFTUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers Medals
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    Hi Scott,

    For "Delete Aged Discovery Data", you can leave the setting as 90 days.

    For the duplicate computer in collection, you can manually delete it.
     
  • Thursday, October 29, 2009 10:23 AMEric Zhang - MSFTMSFTUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers Medals
     
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    As this thread has been quiet for a while we will be changing the issue type to ‘General Discussion’.

    If you wish to return to this question you can go ahead and change the type back to ‘Question’. Then you can edit your initial post and change the radio button at the top of the post editor window.

    If the issue has been resolved, we’d love to hear your solution. By sharing your experience you can help other community members facing similar problems.

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  • Thursday, October 29, 2009 10:33 PMScottY_E Users MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers Medals
     
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    Thanks Eric,

    I have set my AD system discovery to 21 days, Heart beat discovery to 14 days and Delete Aged Discovery data into 60 days.

    Slowly but surley my environment is sorting itself out.

    Thanks for the advice!

    - Scott.