PENDING How to remove client with no agent installed

[Datafast]

I am performing a cleaning using the Maintenance tasks for deleting aged data/PC.

I can still see several PCs with no client installed present in SCCM. I couldn't find a task to do that.

Is there a way to delete also this devices?

 

[Prajwal Desai]

Do those stale devices exists in Active Directory?.

 

[Datafast]

Yes, those devices are in Active Directory

 

[Prajwal Desai]

Why don't you use an AD clean up script to remove the machines from AD first. That will keep your AD tidy and configuration manager will also honor it.

 

[Datafast]

That is a task (delete) I have in progress (waiting permissions/authorizations).
In the mean time if I move those PC to a specific OU do you think can I setup Autodiscovery to exclude this OU (those PCs)?

 

[Garth]

The easiest way is to NOT have them listed within the OU to discover.

 

[Datafast]

At the moment the system discovery is looking for the entire AD. How can i select the OUs where discover ?
Or avoid specific OU?

 

[Garth]

Here is the doc page https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/m...vers/deploy/configure/about-discovery-methods

 

[Datafast]

Is someone able to help?

 

[Garth]

Is someone able to help?

Did you read the docs? https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/m...vers/deploy/configure/about-discovery-methods What is unclear with them?

 

[Datafast]

I am not an expert. I couldn't find in this documentation a way or rule to prevent discovery to look at specific OU in active directory.

 

[Garth]

I am not an expert. I couldn't find in this documentation a way or rule to prevent discovery to look at specific OU in active directory.

Go Look at the middle of the System discovery screen. It allows you wo excluded OU.

 

[Datafast]

The OU added here, will be excluded, am I right ?

 

[Datafast]

Configuring this section (browse) will I exclude specific OU?

 

[Prajwal Desai]

Configuring this section (browse) will I exclude specific OU?

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Yes, do that and run the discovery.