Oh and one more thing to add, Phil. I have my Active Directory System Discovery running every day at 10am. Any less, unless for testing purposes or a very small site is really unnecessary in my opinion. Although, since you only have less than 500 computers, you should actually be alright with your current setting at every hour. If you set this to any less, you may find that your current polling will end up stopping in the middle of it's task to start the new polling if it hasn't finished processing these changes/discoveries; this could mean that unprocessed data files could get stuck in a queue or pending state until you give it more time to process all data. I haven't had it happen to me yet, though the Microsoft rep I spoke with told me to keep it at everyday, so I haven't really tested it or questioned it.
If you want to speed up your polling times though, you make sure you set your "Include groups" checkbox to unchecked (excluded) instead of checked (included). The wording on this can get confusing, but make sure this is set to unchecked unless you are specifically looking for duplicate objects across multiple domains. This "Include groups" checkbox is unchecked by default.
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by: Element1910Posted on 2009-09-11 at 01:37:19ID: 25307561
Hi Phil,
There is an easier way to deploy software packages out to a single computer. I'm at home, so bear with me on doing this from memory. First thing to do is go and download the SCCM Right-click tools, and install it on your SCCM server (and child sites if you have any) because this will help you so much as an SCCM administrator and give you the ability to do many tasks that you'd normally do manually. You can get it from here:
http://myitforum.com/cs2/b
Scroll to the bottom of the page and there is the link to download it.
Once you do this, you'll be able go to your "All Systems" collection, right-click on the computer you want to deploy software to and click the "Distribute" > "Distribute Software" on the right-click menu or something along those lines. It should bring you to the Advertisement wizard that will allow you to create an advertisement to this single computer. I gotta check this out in the morning when I get to work, but try that out and let me know how that works for you.
As far as your collections not updating quickly enough, mine usually happens within 10 minutes if there is replication that needs to take place, but other than that it's fairly quick after clicking "Update Collection Membership", waiting for it to complete the update, then refreshing 2 times. Call me OCD about doing it that way, but it works for my enterprise environment of over 20,000+ clients :)
Like I said before, try this stuff out, and let me know how this helps you. I'll be happy to help you in anyway that I can when I get to work.