Windows Client Health

1E Verified Components

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195

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Added

3 years ago

Last Updated

7 days ago

Compatibility

Client Supported - 23.7, 8.1, 8.2, 8.4, 9.0
OS Supported - Microsoft Windows 11, 10

Description

Over time Windows devices can develop performance problems related to device or service availability. This policy verifies the available storage capacity on devices, notifies of application crashes, monitors WMI health and service function and also checks the behavior of core Windows services.
This policy is intended for deployment to Windows devices only.

Key Features

WMI repository health check.
Retrieve the content of a specified file.
List application crashes for a specific application.

Setup

This Product Pack contains both Rules and instructions.
Upload this Product pack with the help of Tachyon Product Pack Deployment Tool.
A Guaranteed State Policy named Windows Client Health will be created.
Guaranteed State Rules will be created in this policy.
An Instruction Set named Windows Client Health containing all the instructions will be created.

Usage

Review any rule, for Example Check WMI repository health.
The precondition ensures it run only on Windows devices.
The check will be performed to ensure the WMI repository is consistent.
This fix is optional and can be skipped. You may configure it as per your requirement.
Review all the rules in this Policy before deploying it.
Assign the Windows Client Health Policy to a management group.
Deploy the Windows Client Health Policy.
Within a period of a day or more you would start seeing the reports on WMI repository health, and also remediation if Fix was enabled.
We can also manually run instruction from Explorer to start the WMI Service(or perform other task) if it’s not compliant.

Components

1E-Explorer-WindowsClientHealth-ApplicationCrashes

INSTRUCTION

Description

List application crashes

Readable Payload

What applications have crashed?

1E-Explorer-WindowsClientHealth-ApplicationCrashesFiltered

INSTRUCTION

Description

List application crashes for a specific application

Readable Payload

What crashes has %ApplicationName% suffered?

Windows Client Health

POLICY

The Windows Client Health policy ensures that the health of the Windows operating system is compliant with a reference baseline

Ensure WMI service is running (Rule)

Ensure that the WMI service is running.

1E-GuaranteedState-General-Check-ServiceState (Check)

Check that service "%ServiceName%" is %State%

1E-GuaranteedState-WindowsClientHealth-Check-ExpectedRunningServices (Check)

Check that all Windows services set to auto-start (non-triggered) are running (except %exceptions%)

1E-GuaranteedState-General-PreCondition-OSAndSoftware (Precondition)

Run if operating system is %OsText% and %SoftwareTitle% is installed

1E-GuaranteedState-General-PreCondition-InstalledSoftware (Precondition)

Run if %SoftwareTitle% is installed

1E-GuaranteedState-General-PreCondition-MinWindowsVersion (Precondition)

Run if device is Windows %MinimumVersion%

1E-GuaranteedState-General-PreCondition-OperatingSystem (Precondition)

Run if operating system is %OsText%

1E-GuaranteedState-WindowsClientHealth-Fix-StartWMIService (Fix)

Start the WMI service

Check application crash count (Rule)

Check that an application has not crashed excessively.

1E-GuaranteedState-Check-ApplicationCrashes (Check)

Check that the application %ApplicationName% has not suffered more than %MaxCrashCount% crashes in the last %Days% days

1E-GuaranteedState-Check-WindowsDefenderDefAge (Check)

Check that Windows Defender has updated its definitions within the last %daysThreshold% day(s)

1E-GuaranteedState-ClientHealth-Check-ConfigMgrClientCacheUsage (Check)

Check the ConfigMgr client cache has not exceeded more than %cacheUseThresholdPercent%% of its quota

1E-GuaranteedState-ClientHealth-Check-WindowsUpdateLastScan (Check)

Check that Windows Update has performed an update scan within the last %daysThreshold% day(s)

1E-GuaranteedState-ClientHealth-Check-WmiExpectedClasses (Check)

Check that WMI namespace %namespace% contains classes: %expectedClasses%

1E-GuaranteedState-General-PreCondition-WindowsDevice (Precondition)

Determine if device is running Windows

Check free disk space (Rule)

Check that the system disk has at least 5 Gb of free space.

1E-GuaranteedState-WindowsClientHealth-Check-SystemDriveFreeSpace (Check)

Check that system drive has at least %thresholdGb% Gb of free space

Check WMI repository health (Rule)

Check that the WMI repository is in a healthy state.

1E-GuaranteedState-WindowsClientHealth-Check-WmiBasicHealth (Check)

Check that Windows WMI repository is consistent and can process basic query

1E-GuaranteedState-WindowsClientHealth-Check-WmiNamespace (Check)

Check for WMI namespace %namespace%

What's New

17-Apr-2024:
Updated pack with latest 1E code sign certificate.

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Ensure WMI service is running (Rule)

1E-GuaranteedState-General-Check-ServiceState (Check)

1E-GuaranteedState-WindowsClientHealth-Check-ExpectedRunningServices (Check)

1E-GuaranteedState-General-PreCondition-OSAndSoftware (Precondition)

1E-GuaranteedState-General-PreCondition-InstalledSoftware (Precondition)

1E-GuaranteedState-General-PreCondition-MinWindowsVersion (Precondition)

1E-GuaranteedState-General-PreCondition-OperatingSystem (Precondition)

1E-GuaranteedState-WindowsClientHealth-Fix-StartWMIService (Fix)

Check application crash count (Rule)

1E-GuaranteedState-Check-ApplicationCrashes (Check)

1E-GuaranteedState-Check-WindowsDefenderDefAge (Check)

1E-GuaranteedState-ClientHealth-Check-ConfigMgrClientCacheUsage (Check)

1E-GuaranteedState-ClientHealth-Check-WindowsUpdateLastScan (Check)

1E-GuaranteedState-ClientHealth-Check-WmiExpectedClasses (Check)

1E-GuaranteedState-General-PreCondition-WindowsDevice (Precondition)

Check free disk space (Rule)

1E-GuaranteedState-WindowsClientHealth-Check-SystemDriveFreeSpace (Check)

Check WMI repository health (Rule)

1E-GuaranteedState-WindowsClientHealth-Check-WmiBasicHealth (Check)

1E-GuaranteedState-WindowsClientHealth-Check-WmiNamespace (Check)

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