Hopefully this is the correct forum for this question. I have a new SCCM (SP2 not R2) install and I am trying to get the list of computers in the Directory so that I may push the client to all my systems. Right now Only 24 systems show up in my All Systems group. I have 900 or so computers in the domain so this is a little odd. The Error i get in the Status detail is : SMS Active Directory System Discovery Agent reported errors for 992 objects. DDR's were generated for 0 objects that had errors while reading non-critical properties. DDR's were not generated for 992 objects that had errors while reading critical properties. Possible cause: The SMS Service might not have access to some properties of this object. The container specified might not have the properties available. Solution: Please verify the Active Directory schema for properties that are not replicated or locked. Refer to the discovery logs for more information. I look in the adsysdis.log file and I see: INFO: discovered object with ADsPath = 'LDAP://dc.A.B.edu/CN=MACHINE1,CN=Computers,DC=A,DC=B,DC=edu'~ WARN: Could not get property (domain) for system (0x80005010)~ $$<SMS_AD_SYSTEM_DISCOVERY_AGENT><Wed Jul 14 11:33:56.538 2010 Eastern Daylight Time><thread=4872 (0x1308)> ERROR: GetIPAddr - getaddrinfo() for 'MACHINE1.A.B.edu' failed with error code 11004. ERROR: Machine MACHINE1 is offline or invalid.~ WARN: CADSource::ProcessSystemInfo: Failed to get IP Address for the system.~ $$<SMS_AD_SYSTEM_DISCOVERY_AGENT> I am in an academic setting and unfortunately do not have control over our campus-wide DNS server. Also the full machine name is different from it's name in DNS. so in the above the machine has a netbois name of machine1, a full machine name of machine1.A.B.edu, but a DNS name of 1-2.dhcp.B.edu Can I force SCCM to lookup machine info using the NetBIOS name?

What OS is your site server? I have recently uncovered a known bug concerning discovery and disjoint dns namespace that happens when ConfigMgr is installed on 2008 R2; essentially, the DNS suffix search order is not honored. I don't know of any good work-arounds though and calling CSS is probably the best path for you to take.Jason | http://myitforum.com/cs2/blogs/jsandys | http://blogs.catapultsystems.com/jsandys/default.aspx | Twitter @JasonSandys

Interesting, the site server is 2008 R2. Good to know.

There is no correlation between machine name and dns entry. Sorry but you lost me. Is it possible to open a command prompt on the SCCM server and enter ping machinename and get a reply by resolving machinename to an IP in DNS? If not then AD System Discovery will not work. You will have to use another discovery method. John Marcum | http://myitforum.com/cs2/blogs/jmarcum |