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Dr_Snooze
Brass Contributor
Thanks for the replies. It's much appreciated. The situation is that I have a population of emergency-use computers that stay asleep most of the time. To get updates, I need to wake them and manually trigger the updates myself. I can do this easily enough sending DOS and PowerShell commands through my RMM's backend. Or at least, I can do everything but force an Intune sync. For that, I have to remote in, enter a password, navigate the GUI, etc. It just doesn't seem like it should be that hard.
As I said before, the MS Graph method is more work than remoting in, so not worth the bother.
With regard to restarting the Service, that doesn't work. If you dig into Settings and click the Sync button, you will see the "Host process for OMA-DM client" pop up in the Task Manager. Restarting the service (or using the Niehaus method) does not get that process to fire. Until it does, the changes I need never happen.
The only way I've found reliably to get the Host process to fire is to click the Sync button, or reboot the computer. Both require me to remote in and deal with the GUI. Is there really no way to avoid that? It seems like a monumental oversight.
As I said before, the MS Graph method is more work than remoting in, so not worth the bother.
With regard to restarting the Service, that doesn't work. If you dig into Settings and click the Sync button, you will see the "Host process for OMA-DM client" pop up in the Task Manager. Restarting the service (or using the Niehaus method) does not get that process to fire. Until it does, the changes I need never happen.
The only way I've found reliably to get the Host process to fire is to click the Sync button, or reboot the computer. Both require me to remote in and deal with the GUI. Is there really no way to avoid that? It seems like a monumental oversight.
hirogen10
May 19, 2023Copper Contributor
our machines are no longer on the domain, but personally I think with the machines being in sleep mode depending on how often, lets assume hotdesk users logon to them every so often based on their shifts, there's obviously a risk the machine goes out of compliance if its not been on for 8 hours or so, so maybe just send a sync via PowerShell on schedule every 30 minutes or less. unless ur saying some machines are not switched back on by end users for a long time say 1 week to 3 weeks or more even, in that case might have to look into remote powerup