Option "Client prefer to use MPs based on boundary groups" not working

Question

When deploying new clients, task sequence policy retrieval is very slow. "retriving policy" with the torch takes about 15 minutes before the available task sequences are displayed.

• The option "Client prefer to use MPs based on boundary groups" is seleted in hierarchy settings
• the client is in the correct boundary group with two assigned site systems

when examining smsts.log on a client, after PXE boot, WinPE startup and finally displaying the available task sequences, I can see in the log that the client tries to contact many MPs that are not reachable, until it finally contacts one of the right MPs

We are on most current build 2010. Thank you in advance for any help
Franz

Answer 1

Thank you for the answers.

It is a problem for us, because we have a multi customer SCCM installation. And everytime when a new customer MP/DP is installed, this system will be added at the first position of the following registry key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\SMS\DP
"ManagementPoints" (REG_SZ)

This causes problems because policy retrieval for PXE booting clients runs fast on the new installed customer location, and runs even slower on all other locations.

Instead of spending hours in a Microsoft call (and porbably won't get any solution), we implemented configuration items and GPOs at some locations that puts the MP/DPs in this regsitry key in the correct order.

Answer 2

@Franz Schenk

Thank you for posting in Microsoft Q&A forum.

The option of "Clients prefer to use management points specified in boundary groups" just means that the management points will be on the top of the list. This should help you with keeping the management point traffic of those clients local, this option could be make sense once SCCM client was deployed successfully. As we mentioned, the step is deploying client, and it was similar with the expected client find MP to get the ccmsetup file from DP.

To speed up the policy received, we could refresh "the machine policy retrieval & Evaluation Cycle" on the expected client.

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Answer 3

OSD Task Sequences do not honor MP affinity. There is a DCR in the backlog for this though.

Please file a frown in the console or open a support case if this is currently causing you significant issues.