How to identify SCCM Client is corrupt in Device collection

Question

Hello awesome community,

I have a Device collection having more than 5K devices. Windows Patching is one of the critical activities we are required to do every month. For the devices to be successfully patched, it is highly important to maintain SCCM Client in healthy state.
The measure question arises here :

• How to identify devices from Prod collection where SCCM Client is not healthy and needs to be repaired
• What are the trigger points that can be used to determine if the client is corrupt
• Also, if Install Client from SCCM Conole does fix these issues ?
• Or, Client Repairing is better approach ? and if yes, best practice to auto trigger the repair part

So, is there any way I can create dynamic device collection that needs to be repaired ? and if there is any Package/Batch file that can be pushed to these devices to Auto repair. ?

Answer 1

Hi, @Nitin Singh

Thank you for posting in Microsoft Q&A forum.

To identify devices from a device collection where the SCCM client is not healthy and needs to be repaired, you can use the "Client Activity" report which shows the activity of each client on the system. This report shows the last policy request, the last hardware inventory scan, and the last software inventory scan. If there are any issues with the client, you can see them in this report.

The trigger point could be the "Client Health Evaluation" task in Configuration Manager, which runs by default every 24 hours and verifies the health of the client components.

Installing the client from the SCCM console may fix some client issues, but the best practice is to repair the client.

Here is an article how to repair client, we can use Run Script to repair multiple clients:

https://www.prajwaldesai.com/repair-sccm-client-agent/

You may create dynamic device collection that needs to be repaired with this link:

https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/1efe4887-dc42-4f05-b8bd-030483e2b50a/sccm-device-collection-query-for-active-amp-inactive-clients

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