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Enabling AD imports

Updated: 21 May 2010 | 3 comments
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I'm trying to import computers from Active Directory but each time I try I get the error

"This rule can not be enabled until a schedule has been specified and enabled."

So, at the bottom of the page I  now enable a schedule and apply. I still get the same error. I setup a daily schedule to run five minutes from now, wait until this time has passed and try to enable an import again, only to get the same error

"This rule can not be enabled until a schedule has been specified and enabled."

Why is it displaying this error when a schedule has been specified and enabled?

I am running the latest version of Notification Server at the time of writing.

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Quitch's picture
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2009
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I, uh... *hangs head in

I, uh... *hangs head in shame*

I think I need to configure the "Specified schedules" element at the end of the line.

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2009
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My only question now is

My only question now is what's the difference between Resource Import Rules and Directory Synchronization Schedule? Does one do imports and the other do deletions? Certainly that's what I get from the descriptions.

What is the purpose of a full import? I don't see what it offers over an update import.

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Oct
2009
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You are correct

The resource import rules import the specified resources, if they don't already exist. The directory sync rule is designed to remove items from Altiris that have been removed from Active Directory (or moved OU's). They full import is kind of like a fail safe. I have read that it verifies the data with more than one domain controller, vs. the update, which only contacts one DC. I have never really verified that for myself.

The full import is certainly more intensive, while the update does only the changes since the last import. I approach it that you can run delta's more often, and then run the full as a 'make sure'. I have seen issues where the updates didn't pull in new resources, even though they are designed to. However a full import did pull that resource in.

Jim Harings
HP Enterprise Services
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