Forcing a SCCM client to check for new Advertisements

When creating an advertisement in SCCM and you are testing it, it can be a pain waiting for the client to check-in. I know I’ve always just gone to the SCCM control panel aplet and from “Actions” clicked all of them which does the job, but which one is it?

Machine Policy Retrieval & Evaluation Cycle is the one you really want. It will take a minimum of 2 minutes before a new advertisement is presented to the client AFTER the policy retrieval cycle. There's no supported way to speed that up.



Source: Various users on http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/configmgrswdist/thread/a1066dfb-a71e-4e52-b7b7-c225ea0935a4/