SCCM 2012: Active Directory Group Discovery, Delta Discovery?

Hi,
Our scenario:
*Software is requested via a seperate system which puts AD computer objects in groups
*Software within SCCM 2012 is deployed to computer collections
*Computer collections query AD groups, in those AD groups the pc's reside
*Collections memberships run via AD query (every 20 minutes)
*We deploy an OS (Windows 7) via SCCM
*Machine policy is updates every 20 minutes
What is important: AD Group discovery is set to full discovery every 7 days, delta discovery set to 15 minutes
So what happens:
*Pc is staged correctly with Windows 7 but software isn't coming through in time (sometimes it's there within the hour, sometimes it takes 6 hours)
*If we run a full AD Group discovery mostly software is installing immediately
*Sometimes a SCCM 2012 client machine reset policy or reinstall client solves the problem
My questions:
*Would it be better to run full discoveries every x minutes since this always solves our problem
*Would it be better to disable the delta discovery if we do the change above to minimize AD queries
=> tried that now (full discovery every 30 minutes and disabled delta discovery) but I don't want to put to much pressure on our domain controller
*Our software collections are limited to all systems, we could limit them to a Windows 7 collection. Probably we should do that but any suggestion how to do this safely in Powershell?
Please advise.
J.
Jan Hoedt
Note: what I don't get is why a full ad discovery system discovery sovles the problem since SCCM 2012 collections do a AD query, what 's the link there?

So, let me see if I get this correct for our situation:
Our own developed system puts pc’s in AD groups
SCCM 2012 polls these groups, by default 1/week full discovery then every 30 minutes a delta discovery
We deploy software to computer collections, these collections check the SCCM 2012 database every 30 minutes (collection update) Note: the query our collection do, is based upon requirement of Windows 6.1 + membership of an AD group.
The SCCM 2012 client/computer does a computer policy update every 30 minutes to see what collections it is member of and see then the software to be deployed
2 questions:
*Our my assumptions correct? Specifically point 3.: is the query fully coming from an ad sync (or also from sccm client, f.e. Windows 6.1%)?
*Don’t we have a step to much then, wouldn’t it be better to add a direct membership of the AD group within SCCM? This direct membership would mean no query and so save us about 20 minutes (run of query)?
Jan Hoedt

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