Hi all. After a recent monthly patching cycle, I had almost 100% of my servers reporting a known and accurate status (Compliant & Pending System Restart). I thought things were going great.
After a week I had another look at the enforcement states report and nearly 25% of my servers have jumped to "Enforcement State Unknown". On closer investigation,all of these servers are correctly prompting for a post-update installation reboot via the software centre.
Why does my reports claim they're all "Enforcement State Unknown" when I can see no issues at all with the clients? I've run the state message resend VBScript and that makes no difference.The status correctly changes to "Compliant" after a restart, but does not change under any other circumstances
Basically, I've got no confidence that the reports in 2012 are showing accurate information. All these servers should be at the state "Pending System Restart", not "Enforcement State Unknown" in my reports and its making life difficult for me in actually proving an accurate picture of my true patching states without physically logging onto each server to see the reboot prompt.
Summary - the reports are inaccurate and the clients are working correctly.
Any ideas?
Edit to add - the "Last State Received" time and date for all my "Enforcement State Unknown" servers is identical at 22/5/2013 7:34:21 PM.