A WORLD OF BITS AND BYTES…
When you create some snapshots (or checkpoints named in Microsoft SCVMM) within Microsoft Hyper-V, there’re some new files within the folder where the VHD file is located. The snapshot (checkpoint) files have the extension .AVHD. When you delete these snapshots (checkpoints), the .AVHD files are still there…but why? The only solution to automatically delete these .AVHD files is to Shutdown or Turn Off the virtual Machine. As you can see, all the . AVHD files are gone after a shutdown.
When you make any changes to your SCCM 2007 environment, the clients will polling for this changes by a interval. Default this is 60 minutes. If you want to force an Machine Policy Retrieval, you can use to following two options:
1.) Open your control panel
2.) Configuration Manager
3.) Action tab
4.) Machine Policy Retrieval & Evaluation Cycle
5.) Initiate Action
The next option is to use the following script.
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on error resume next
dim oCPAppletMgr ‘Control Applet manager object.
dim oClientAction ‘Individual client action.
dim oClientActions ‘A collection of client actions.
‘Get the Control Panel manager object.
set oCPAppletMgr=CreateObject("CPApplet.CPAppletMgr")
if err.number <> 0 then
Wscript.echo "Couldn’t create control panel application manager"
WScript.Quit
end if
‘Get a collection of actions.
set oClientActions=oCPAppletMgr.GetClientActions
if err.number<>0 then
wscript.echo "Couldn’t get the client actions"
set oCPAppletMgr=nothing
WScript.Quit
end if
‘Display each client action name and perform it.
For Each oClientAction In oClientActions
if oClientAction.Name = "Request & Evaluate Machine Policy" then
wscript.echo "Performing action " + oClientAction.Name
oClientAction.PerformAction
end if
next
set oClientActions=nothing
set oCPAppletMgr=nothing
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