Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Windows Firewall exceptions for SCCM Client Push Installation

After you had enable Client Push Installation in SCCM, you found all the client machines failed to receive and install the SCCM agent. After you verify the log files, you may found out the Windows Firewall in client machine is blocking the Client Push Installation. Due to company policy, it is impossible for you to turn off the Windows Firewall on client machines...

Here we provide one good solution for IT Administrators to encounter issue above.

In order to successfully use SCCM Client Push Installation, you must add the following as exceptions to the Windows Firewall on every client machines:
  • File & Printer Sharing
  • Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI)
After all things is done, lets rocks with SCCM Client Push Installation!