WSUS & ForeFront problem

We recently started testing ForeFront installation through WSUS to a test
group/OU. 99% of the time all is great, the clients get ForeFront client
through WSUS.

However, on a few machines so far, they are reporting that the ForeFront
client is "Not Applicable", and thus they do not install it.

These are Windows XP SP2 machines, same as all the other machines we are
testing with.

Does anyone have any idea why they could be reporting that they don't
need/want the ForeFront client?

Here are a few things you need to check on the computers that are giving you
problems.
1. Make sure they have all prereqs installed.
2. Make sure they have received the FCS GPO policy (without this it won't
install)
3. Check if these computers are running XP SP3. There are some issues in
detecting prereqs with SP3 installed. If this is the case call Microsoft
support and see if they have a fix for this.

Hope this helps!
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MCSE, forefront spec | www.msforefront.com


"TheIrish1" wrote:

> We recently started testing ForeFront installation through WSUS to a test
> group/OU. 99% of the time all is great, the clients get ForeFront client
> through WSUS.
>
> However, on a few machines so far, they are reporting that the ForeFront
> client is "Not Applicable", and thus they do not install it.
>
> These are Windows XP SP2 machines, same as all the other machines we are
> testing with.
>
> Does anyone have any idea why they could be reporting that they don't
> need/want the ForeFront client?