Package Advertisements

[thepede]

When we distribute applications through SCCM it seems to take quite a while for the advertisement to reach the client machine. In most cases installing the app is quicker then receiving the advertisements. Is there any to speed this process up other then initiating action on the client's policy which doesn't seem to do much. Thanks

[anyweb]

if you initiate a Machine Policy Retrieval and Evaluation Cycle, then it should speed up the process considerably,

 

how long is it taking from you creating an advertisement to a client seeing it ?

[thepede]

On average it takes about 30 minutes. It shows up in Collections for the machine first and usually 20 minutes later the machine will receive the notification.

[anyweb]

and if you manually do the action i just said on the client, how long does it take ?

[thepede]

Sorry, didn't mention I initiate action on the machine policy each time. Don't know how long it would take if I don't initiate Machine Policy Retrieval.

[anyweb]

in your site settings, client agents, what is your Policy Polling Interval (minutes) set to ? it's listed under Computer Client Agent

[thepede]

That may have been it, seems it was defaulted to 60 minutes. I have since changed it to 1 minute, but have not been able to test it yet. Thanks