Hi All,

Need some direction in handling a situation where there was a deletion of members in one of the collection which resulted in removing all reporting SCCM clients from all collections. This went unnoticed as the main admin was on vacation. Now we have new collection members and have a DB backup which has the old collection members. 

What would be the best way of getting the data from the backup restored to the production so we have the collection members in all collections as before, maintain the newly made changes after the deletion and ensure that this process does not rerun the advertisements on the end users system during the entire process.

Thanks in advance
-Vijay

There is no way to do a selective restore in ConfigMgr.

To clarify though, did  you delete the membership rules or were the resources deleted? They are two different things.

Hi Jason,

The resources itself were deleted.

The resources will come back into ConfigMgr but they won't go back into the collection unless it's query based.

The resources have come back in All systems and are missing from the advertised collections as they were added as Direct members. We are now checking if there is a way in adding these machines (manually if needed) without triggering the advertisement.

Is there a way you can guide me in that way or something similar. We do not want the end users getting the advertisements again and majority of them having to get the customization back after the re-install caused

-Vijay

The advertisements would only run if they have never run before.

Clients maintain advert state locally so even if the they are added back to the collection(s), assuming the adverts were set to only rerun if previously failed, then they won't be run again on the clients (as indicated by John above).