Today I tried to modify Hardware Inventory Schedule client setting and it didn’t work. First I thought that I did something wrong or the cmdlet is broken. Here is the cmdlet Verbose output

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Then I thought that, lets disable the HW client setting and then enable the HW client setting with correct schedule and Bingo it worked correctly.

#Step 1

$ClientSettingsName = 'HW Settings'

Set-CMClientSetting -Name $ClientSettingsName -EnableHardwareInventory $false -Verbose -Debug

#Step 2

$CMWeeklySchedule = New-CMSchedule -RecurCount 1 -RecurInterval Hours

Set-CMClientSetting -InventorySchedule $CMWeeklySchedule -Name $ClientSettingsName -EnableHardwareInventory $True -Verbose -Debug

If you compare the verbose outputs, then you will see the difference – first time it didn’t query the SMS_SCI_ClientComp WMI instance but second time it did.

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Now If I try to modify the schedule again I don’t need to disable the HW setting. I tested this on Configuration Manager 2012 R2 CU1 lab.