In CM 2012, I have a Configuration baseline configured to track a version of Java for my Win7 64bit systems. When the baseline runs, it checks installed versions via script. If the versions match standards, we are compliant. If the versions don't, it runs a remediation script to delete bad java, and kicks off an App Deploy eval cycle and the state based Java deployment installs the standard version. When it runs, it runs great. For testing, I've gone into the SCCM Client on workstations, and manually kicked off an eval on the Java DCM, and everything works peachy, so the logic and DCM are working good.
I'm still in a testing model, so I'm trying to increase the frequency of the DCM evaluation on a small group of machines in a lab. I've only got a couple systems doing 2-3 different DCM evals, so the load is very low. In the deployment of the Config Baselines, I've tried setting schedules for hourly, 30 minutes, 2 hours, 4 hours etc. And I can't seem to get my clients to follow the eval pattern I specify. Even if I let them sit for a day or so to let all the policies kick in and apply, they still seem to run at strange intervals, or maybe even once a day.
Can anyone shed any light on how these evaluations are scheduled and how one might get these to run on a more regular schedule? I'm never trying to do anything real heavy like setting an interval of every 15 minutes. For the testing I'm doing now, once every couple hours would be fine, but I can't seem to figure out how to get them to actually accept the schedules I'm assigning.
Thanks for any insights or advice. I suspect I'm just missing something obvious, like the client needs to wait for x minutes for the eval to upload or something before it will run another eval, but I can't seem to find that limitation and define a reasonable eval schedule that I can use to predict behavior. .