FastTrack

FastTrack offers information about the installed SCCM client, such as whether the client is installed or not, which version is installed and which site the computer is assigned to. One use of this information could be checking that all computers actually have the SCCM client installed. Your clients that show up in the Configuration Manager Console... are based on the discovery methods you have set up. For example, if you use Active Directory System Discovery, a list of computers is retrieved from the computer accounts in your Active Directory. If you use Network Discovery, clients are found by various means such as querying Microsoft DHCP and WINS servers for a client list. It is therefore not likely that computers will not eventually show up in the console. However, what is not unlikely is it not being possible to push the client to all computers. There are a number of situations, where we know a FastTrack script will be running on these computers from time to time, and we could use these to make integrity checks. We could put this script line into the regular logon script: SCCM Logo If Not SCCMClientInstalled Then ShowMessage Your computer is unable to receive software updates. Please contact the Help Desk. If it then turns out that the SCCM client is not installed on a computer, when a user logs on, this is shown during the logon process: SCCM Warning We could also choose to use the SendMail command to email the Help Desk to advise of this problem. This script line would also be of great value to put in a SmartDock script, as it is most likely that problems pushing the client to a computer would be over VPN connections for computers that are rarely or never on the LAN. Another use would be to include SCCM client information in your personal FastTrack Inventory. When you use SCCM, you might not be using FastTrack Inventory at the same time, but one does not rule out the other. While SCCM collects heaps of inventory data about computers, FastTrack Inventory is a light-weight inventory, because the purpose of ...Read More