Managing Laptops : Ways to insure each laptop immediately checks policy upon connection?
Everyone,
I manage SCCM 2012 in a School District, and we have multiple carts of 30+ laptops that our classrooms/students use. In these carts, some may be used daily, while others may go weeks without being turned on. My question is:
What's the best way to insure that each laptop immediately is updated once it comes online. Or, is this something that it does already?
The reason I ask if we have a ton of sites that require the newest version of Flash, and if it does not have this newest version...it will not work. I do not want these students not being able to use the laptop for a few hours until it updates/installs
the new version(s), specifically if it takes 3 hours for it to refresh policy and download the new version.
Any input, or any other pointers, you all could recommend for managing laptops in this type of environment would be greatly appreciated!
Thank you!
Be careful about allowing the built-in maintenance tasks to delete computers. They will come back but it may slow things down a little.
having said that CM is not an instantanous product. There will be some minor delay between the machines coming online and them actually getting all the updates.
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