Software Center - past - due will be installed & maintenance/business hours

Hi All

I am struggling with some issues with installing software on clients. 

Much of the software I have deployed can end up sitting in client software center as 'past due - will be installed' or 'pastdue - will be retried'.

They'll sit there until someone does something..meaning.. You need to manually start the deployment.. Then it installs fine.

I always set ' User Experience - When installation deadline is reached..... to "Software Installation" ticked.

There's apparently a client settings in Administration-->Client Settings->"computer Agent" which can affect the install as well "Additional Software manages the deployment......" this is set to "no".

Business hours on clients are set to 5-22.. I believe this is standard.

There is NO maintenance windows set for any of my collections. 

What's strange is that some clients install software I deploy just fine.. while others I deploy to at the same time.. can leave the software as 'past due'. Meaning some clients install as they should while others end up in "past due".

Can someone guide me in the right direction.. 

May 9th, 2014 8:49am

What does the Monitoring node -> Deployments tell for such a depoyment then?
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May 9th, 2014 9:31am

Hi Torsten..

Good call.. 

This is what VLC player returns in monitoring->deployments:

Failed to locate content error 0x87d01107 Failed to access all the provided program locations. This program may retry if the maximum retry count has not been reached.

but again.. if I go to the client and click on "try again" .. it installs..

May 9th, 2014 12:16pm

Another piece of software, when looking in monitoing->deployments is:

Content downloaded - In Progress

and it never goes any further.

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May 9th, 2014 12:23pm

Yes, I know this is an old post, but Im trying to clean them up. Did you solve this problem, if so what was the solution?

March 8th, 2015 12:09pm

hi Garth.

well... yes, it was solved. But not by me specifically..

After updating sccm to R2 the problem seems to have disappeared.

But thanks for asking.. even though you are just cleaning up. :-)

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March 8th, 2015 12:12pm

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