SCCM Collection Query

Question

Hi All,

Many machines in my environment are not installing latest Windows Update. One of the key finding is issue with Registry.Pol Files. After investigating, we could find that few of the machines are missing registry.pol files (like they dont exits or renamed to .old ). In few machines registry.pol exits but has not updated from months although machine is online and running gpupdate /force does not make difference until registry.pol is manually deleted and recreated.

I have created a Configuration Baseline in SCCM that removes the reigistry.pol (old files) and recreates a new registry.pol file.

I need your expert advice to create a query based collection that lists out all the devices where Registry.Pol in C:\Windows\System32\GroupPolicy\Machine is missing.

If also possible another condition can be applied - if registry.pol exits what is the last modified Date and size

Answer 1

Hi, @Nitin Singh Thank you for posting in Microsoft Q&A forum.

Like you mentioned, we can create a configuration baseline to check the existence of reigistry.pol file, and create the device collection baseline on the deployment result:

We can also create a collection that registry.pol exits, and run CMPivot and run below command for this collection to get the last modified Date and size: File('c:\Windows\System32\GroupPolicy\Machine\Registry.pol')

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