Check SCCM client health (& remediate) via Powershell

Question

_{Friday, August 12, 2016 9:51 AM}

Hi,

We recently had issues with an SCCM client which appeared to be corrupt (in configuration manager client, tab actions, only few items were listed what made programs not to come through).

I know there is the sccm client center tool but that offers way to much options for service desk + cannot target several pc's.

What I'd like to do a quick & performant healthcheck (not checking every possible item) of an sccm client via Powershell and indicate clearly what the issues are in a result. Issues should not be described in detail. Then also a remediate should be possible, not granular remediate (f.e. cleanup message queue) but repair which solves issue 100 procent.

Please advise howto approach.
J.

Jan Hoedt

All replies (4)

_{Monday, August 15, 2016 7:49 AM ✅Answered | 1 vote}

http://blog.coretech.dk/kaj/sccm-client-actions-tool-powershell-edition-aka-poshcat/https://sccmcat.codeplex.com/

You can use the client actions tool for that purpose to remediate or repair the broken agents wmi, registry etc.. using the above one.

Outside of CCMEVAL.EXE the above one is the best option i would say.

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_{Friday, August 12, 2016 1:33 PM | 2 votes}

The ccmeval process that runs nightly as a scheduled task already does this and sends the results back to the site for display in the console.

Jason | http://blog.configmgrftw.com | @jasonsandys

_{Monday, August 15, 2016 7:42 AM | 1 vote}

Dear Sir,

As Jason said, Configuration Manager has already been doing this. You can check the status via Console - Monitoring - Client Status.

It all depends what issue it is, there isn't any remediate method which solves issue 100%.

Best regards

Frank

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_{Monday, August 29, 2016 1:08 AM}

Sccm 2012 already has this option and the option to repair a broken client i use it often