SCCM client over VPN

Question

Hi Everyone,

Hope you all are doing safe and sound :).

Need your expertise regarding some task that we want to accomplish in this Covid and I hope someone's experience could help me out with it.

from anyone's experience, what would be the best way of installing SCCM client on machines VIA VPN?

Copy media local v central…. Etc

Targeting client machines?… currently, the hostnames do not resolve to IP if connected over VPNest to go about installing on clients via VPN? Copy media local v central…. Etc.

installing a client over VPN is anyway different than installing it over LAN? Would the client push work over VPN? Is there any specific setting we have to fulfill as a prerequisite to have it installed over VPN if "currently, the hostnames do not resolve to IP if connected over VPN"

Thanking in advance.

Regards,
Shashi Dubey

Answer 1

A VPN in and of itself in no way changes anything. It's just another network link.

the hostnames do not resolve to IP if connected over VPN

That's an issue specific to your VPN and is something you need to address with your VPN team. For client push, the site server must be able to resolve the IP address thus you won't be able to use client push.

installing a client over VPN is anyway different than installing it over LAN?

No, connectivity is connectivity.

Would the client push work over VPN?

Yes, assuming basic network prerequsities are in place like name resolution which it doesn't sound like happens with your VPN clients.

One possible path here is to use group policy preferences to create a schedule task that runs ccmsetup or a script that in turn installs the client agent by calling ccmsetup.

Answer 2

@Shashi Dubey
Thank you for posting in Microsoft Q&A forum.
Here is an article tells how to use group policy preferences to create a schedule task with Jason's script.
(Third party link, just for your reference)
https://www.mroenborg.com/sccm-agent-installation-how-to-implement-jason-sandys-script-as-an-scheduled-task/

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