Hello,
I have recently took over our SEP environment and have been tasked with moving clients from a recently purchased company onto our SEPM. There is roughly 3000 clients needing transfered. I have been replacing the sylink file by pushing a communications update from the SEPM.
This works at times, but is a very slow process and I get a lot of machines returning the error "Login to **machinename** failed. The client could not be installed on the remote computer." I am using a domain admin account so there is no reason this account should not be loging in. Obvious observations include the machine being turned off etc, but I know they are on and connected.
Manually accessing each machine is not really an option, and i would prefer to push this out silently than having any user interaction. From real world experience, what do people out there recommend?
One thought i had was to add the old SEPM to our new environment and move all the clients into the default folder, switch the communication via the SEPM to the new Server and once all the clients have moved across disconnect the old server. I don't know if this would work if the two SEPM's have different group structures.
Alternatively, could use a script, but I am not handy with scripts and would need to be able to detect if the machine is a server/user machine (probably via the OS) as I only want user machines moved across at this time.