How does SMS handle a machine that is reimaged

[jjbendo]

We had an SMS job that was sent to 9 machines in error. It was a simple thing to undo and was done manually. The question that I have is if we have to reimage any of these 9 machines and reassign them their original machine Name, that is what they do here, will the SMS job that was run in error run again on the reimaged machine.

Thanks

 

[avputnam]

If you re-image the machines, you will have two machines with the same name in the inventory: one active and another inactive (non-obsolete and obsolete clients).

If your re-imaged machines are in the same collection to which you advertise the erroneous job and if your advertisement is set to run every so often and never expire, then the newly imaged PCs will get the job.

 

[jjbendo]

We use one advert to cycle through 5 stages, the error was in stage 3, tonight we change the listed collection in this advert to stage 4. Will that keep the reimaged machine from getting the erroneous advert?
Also the advert was run with a mandatory advert scheduled at 8:05 PM Thursday, April 19, 2007.
Thanks!

 

[bonafide247]

If the advertisement is pointing to a collection, and your collection contains those machines, then they will get advertised.

 

[ncotton]

1) If this package was sent "in error", then either the machines are in the wrong collection, or the packages distribution criteria is wrong. Either way, something needs to be changed, I assume the package applicable criteria needs to be changed.

2) When you get a re-imaged machine back onto the network, manually force the collection probes and updates to get them back into the collections. I would disable this problem package completely (temporarily) as if you are still having critera issues, then this will be pushed out as soon as possible after the new images are detected. You will now see 2 instances of the same machine, with different GUIDs, depending on whether you imaged the machines with the SMS adv client on, or without and SMS has distributed the adv client upon detecting the new machines. The OLD instance will become ACTIVE:No, and will become OBSOLETE, after a period of time (acording to the flag set in the site maintenance options)

3) When you re-image the machines, the new images will appear in the same collection as last time, if that package is still set to run on that collection, then they will get it again, so you need to address the package, or the collection rules that apply to those machines.

Neil J Cotton
Technical Consultant