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SCCM state messaging - in depth

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StevenRachui
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Jan 22, 2019
First published on MSDN on Jan 07, 2011 State messaging is a new mechanism in SCCM which reflects point in time conditions on the client.  Status messages, by contrast, work to help administrator...
Updated Apr 07, 2020
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Rajesh_Varadhan
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Mar 08, 2019
 

Hi Steve Rachui,

Good Day!!!

Thanks for sharing in-depth state message post.

I have a query:

In our environment, a particular patch getting installed but in database it shows as non-compliant. 

As suggest above, when we run the refresher policy script, machines are moving to compliance. But our customer requested for root cause.

Below are the steps followed to confirm the patch is installed.

- verified the patch is installed in  client machines, by checking updatestore.log, WUAhandler.log & WMI (root\ccm\statemsg).  it gives 500 & state ID 3.

- Also tried to trace in Management Point (MP\OUTBOXES\statemsg.box) .smx files & in site server mpfdm.log. Could not catch that file though environment has 200K clients.

 

I would like to know where actually this information is dropping?

Is it possible to trace that file in client machine to verify its have that 500 & state ID 3 its sending to MP?

 

I badly need your help to resolve this issue.

 

Thanks in Advance!!!!

 

Regards

Rajesh