After some testing of the servicepack yesterday I discovered a few very nice changes to the client. Policies are now being applied straight away (in the “old days” Config mgr SP1 and previous versions) policies were retrieved from the Management Point and were not effective until after 2 minutes. Some policies are now applied immediately like software policies and policies for Service Windows. 

I might not be the biggest of all changes but it now allows to deliver software packages “on the fly” :-)

In my test I deployed Visio Viewer. First notice the time in the policeagent.log next notice the time in the exemgr.log

PolicyAgent.log

Notice the policy download time 08:41:43

Exemgr.log

Notice the advertisement arrival time 08:41:48

This post was originally posted to http://agerlund.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!3A51A2B50B5C1F51!680.entry June 11-2009