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Existing required application deployments policy is not sent to devices
I have couple hundred applications in SCCM/MCM that are set to required and whenever there is a new device is built, all these required applications automatically get installed. I am on 2503 and 5 da...
Those CI timeout errors usually point to the client struggling to download or process existing application policy metadata, not an installation issue.
Since recreating or modifying the deployment fixes it, it suggests the existing CI versions aren’t being re-evaluated properly. I’ve seen this happen when there’s a site-side policy or MP/IIS issue causing CI downloads or delta policies to time out.
Given this started recently and across many devices, I’d focus more on overall policy infrastructure health (MP, IIS, SQL, recent site maintenance) rather than the applications themselves.