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  1. Just seeing if anyone else has seen this / has ideas, I get some agents that don't check in for a long time. For some, not a big deal, maybe a laptop thats off, sometimes fixed after a reboot. But my laptop that never leans my office, just rebooted this AM and still showing offline since 8/23, it's running the latest version, service is running. Thoughts?

    TL;DR Agents are going offline for a long time and don't come back

  2. Is there a way to prevent SD from auto updating clients when the server is updated? My employer is telling me it's causing bandwidth issues. I updated to the recent update and when it pushed out to our remote site I guess it slowed things down. So ideally I need a way to throttle and/or control how fast the agents update.

     

    Also, only because I'm being asked, is there a way to know the size of the update from 3.0.1000 to 3.0.1005 ?I would assume tiny

  3. This is just incase it's helpful to someone else, mods / Jeff feel free to move/delete/edit.

    I'm not huge on SD's deployment method for 3rd party apps (eg 7zip, or whatever). I don't want to deploy version 1.1 of a program but the latest. Also I want to keep them up to date, this seem tedious with SD, maybe I'm using it wrong. I am used to software like 'automate' by connectwise that let me control/update/script my endpoints all day and dynamically. 

    So my solution to this was to buy a software called UCheck by Adlice, they're a French company and I like their software.  Alternative to this would be something like Ninite, which is pretty expensive. UCheck is like $50/yr and I can use it on unlimited PC's, it also supports way more apps than SD (I believe, I'm 90% sure on this).

    Here is a quick list of steps I took after buying the TECH version of UCheck;

    1. Make a Powershell script to check/scan/update (whatever you want) using Ucheck. 

    2. Make a tech license with ucheck (the license you buy wont work, you need to open the GUI and generate a license)

    3. I keep my exe on a share, this is also where my PS script looks for ucheck.exe (and the license file)

    4. Make an application pack that runs the PS script

    Obviously there is a bit more to this setup, but these are the main 4 steps, and the end result is me being able to update/deploy/check for updates and log the results using SmartDeploy and Ucheck. If anyone wants more details on steps let me know. 

  4. I have an msi that works fine and works fine with /qn (it's Dell command update if anyone cares)

    When I deploy the MSI via SD, I get "Return Value(s): -2" in eventvwr.

    I actually had this working at one point, but it only worked for 1 time. I've tested in VM's and actual machines with no luck. Figured I'd see if anyone had a 2nd opinion. 

    My end goal is to;

    1. Deploy SD with GPO (done)

    2. Deploy DCU with SD (what I'm trying now)

    I've done plenty of MSI installs through GPO so I'm hoping this is a SD specific issue?

    I know SD can do drivers and I will test this feature, I just like have DCU installed as well.

  5. Definitely take Jeff's advice over mine, but you could probably try RDP USB passthrough.  

    Plug USB into PC with USB ports, RDP into the server, but make sure you go to 'show options', local resources, more, then drives (this is within the initial RDP window) then your USB will show up on the remote server. 

     

    EDIT: Don't try this it doesn't work 😃

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