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Dave Barker's avatar
Dave Barker
Copper Contributor
Feb 23, 2021

MaintenanceCoordinator Orchestration Lock is required

I have been getting this since installing the update that converted Server Groups to Orchestration Groups. I have removed all "converted" Server Groups and now have no Orchestration Groups. I have uninstalled and deleted the devices from ConfigMgr. Discovered and Re-installed the client but the clients all still never install "required" updates. The will just say "waiting to install"

In the MaintencanceCoordinator.log file it will say ...

Task did not pass service window check

CheckServiceWindow()

Orchestration lock is required

LockIsAvailable

RequestSent: 00000001

Start Timer: 60

Basic Timer is already queued

 

It will just keep repeating that over and over.

Thanks for any suggestions.

 
  • Morph977's avatar
    Morph977
    Copper Contributor

    Have look at the properties of the Orchestration Group. Make sure the "Orchestration Group Member timeout" covers the sum of the maximum runtimes of all updates. It's similar to maintenance windows, it won't start installing unless there's enough time to do all updates.

    • chucky12234's avatar
      chucky12234
      Copper Contributor
      I opened a case with MS support. Orchestration groups created prior to MECM 2010 can exhibit this issue. New Orchestration groups created in 2010 and later should no longer have this issue. If you use WMI explorer and check the namespace root\ccm\policy\machine\ and class CCM_PrePostActions you will see the pre and post scripts there from when it was a member of the Orchestration Group. You need to delete the instances. Haven't had any updates that I've needed to install yet, but I'm hopeful.
      • Dave Barker's avatar
        Dave Barker
        Copper Contributor

        chucky12234 

         

        Thanks I will give that a try. I think I already tried clearing WMI namespace but I can't remember for sure.

         

        Dave

  • mikyli's avatar
    mikyli
    Copper Contributor
    Hi Dave
    I have the same issue. The members are moved from the Orchestration Group but
    the lock is still required......
    • Dave Barker's avatar
      Dave Barker
      Copper Contributor
      I have not been able to find a solution yet. There must be some registry key or something in WMI that is still remembering the machine being part of the old "Server Groups". Until I can figure out a solution I can only deploy updates as available. No required updates, even updates marked as allowed to install outside a maintenance window will install. They stay in a "waiting to install" status.
      • chucky12234's avatar
        chucky12234
        Copper Contributor
        Any progress with this? I am having the same problem. Running MECM 2010, machines still saying "lock is required" even though the Orchestration Group has long been deleted, and clients have been uninstalled, deleted, reinstalled.

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