Anyone reading this book who has administered any of SCCM 2012's predecessors will likely agree that the biggest headache was keeping your installed client base healthy; especially when working with SCCM clients running on Windows XP, which had a nasty habit of corrupting their WMI data.
With SCCM 2012, Microsoft has addressed many of issues with the inclusion of two monitoring components, Client Activity and Client Check. As an SCEP administrator, your ability to monitor malware activity is directly affected by the overall health status of SCCM clients.
This recipe will walk you through the process for utilizing Client Activity and Client Check to resolve some common issues. To illustrate this point, we will be working on workstation which seems to be no longer communicating with SCCM.
To complete this recipe, you will need to be using an account that has SCCM administrator privileges.