Q. How can I force a refresh of the Desired Configuration Management (DCM) state?

A. DCM state is sent as status messages rather than as part of any policy or inventory, so you can't remotely force an update of DCM state. One option to get faster updates (for example, in demo environments) is to change the state message reporting cycle from the default of 15 minutes to a smaller value (such as each minute). You can do this by:

You can check when a client has sent a state message by viewing the StateMessage.log file, which is found in the C:WindowsSystem32CCMLogs folder (or C:WindowsSysWOW64CCMLogs folder on 64-bit systems).