A few things come to mind...

1.       Stand-Alone media does not send status messages, but you would need to 
engineer running that every night

2.       What about a package/application deployment instead?

3.       Why not compliance or something scheduled locally on the workstations?

Personally, I would go with #3. A nightly job deployed from ConfigMgr isn't the 
best mechanism in my opinion. I would rather have something that runs locally 
and you just verify it ran each night.

Also, I would ask this to mssms instead of mdtosd. Probably less of a OSD 
question, and more of a general practice question.

Daniel Ratliff

From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On 
Behalf Of Marable, Mike
Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2014 8:54 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [MDT-OSD] Long-Shot: Possible to turn off Status Messages from a Task 
Sequence?

(We're probably pushing the use of Task Sequences beyond that which they were 
intended here.)

Every night we have a Task Sequence that we run on all of our machines (~30k) 
that performs maintenance routines and software installations.  The problem is 
that our SCCM guys are finding that the flood of status messages coming in from 
all of those machines floods the Management Points and it takes them several 
hours to process them all and catch up.  Estimates hover around 4 million 
status messages coming in from just this one TS running on all of our machines 
each night.

Is there a way to stop a TS from submitting status messages?  I'm sure it's a 
long shot but it's kind of our last hope before we're forced to re-engineer 
this nightly job into a single scripted solution.  I don't like re-inventing 
the wheel and trying to duplicate all of the logic and features that a Task 
Sequence brings inside of scripts.  I'd hate to lose all of that.

Mike Marable
Application Programmer/Analyst Lead
Enterprise Device Engineering and Management
MCTS, MCITP, MCSA, MS 
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