Learn System Center Configuration Manager in a Month of Lunches

Chapter 17. Making sure clients are healthy

You might have the healthiest, most finely tuned ConfigMgr server hierarchy in existence, but if your clients are chronically unhealthy, then you may as well not be bothering. It should be clear by now that the ConfigMgr client is the real workhorse in your environment. The ConfigMgr server and database are where all the administration happens, but without a fleet of healthy clients ready to do your bidding, you’re rather like a general standing in front of an army, shouting at soldiers who have all gone to sleep.

So in this chapter, as shown in figure 17.1, you’ll examine the common causes and symptoms of client health problems, how to detect them, and how to remediate them.

Figure 17.1. In this ...