For the last few weeks, on Monday's, when I look in the Configuration Manager Console, 80% of my XP and Windows 7 machines are no longer listed in their Collections as having the client. It is listed as NO. I've had to click on the Collection and tell it to Install the client again. This works and my clients show up after a day or two but by the next Monday they are gone again. Any ideas what tasks may be running to cause this? kevin.starling@hughestelematics.com

If you have the "Clear Client install flag" set to a shorter time than your heart beat then you will see this behavior. See what you have these Maintenance Tasks set as.http://www.sccm-tools.com http://sms-hints-tricks.blogspot.com

Please have a look at more explaination on "Install Flag" http://myitforum.com/cs2/blogs/jgilbert/archive/2008/10/18/client-is-installed-flag-explained.aspxSCCM This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties or guarantees, and confers no rights. |Please remember to click Mark as Answer on the post that helps you, and to click Unmark as Answer if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.

thanks for the info. the install flag task was not enabled nor heartbeat so I enabled them both with the default time schedules. we'll se how it goes.