Removed Smart Group from scope but polices still running, why?

colleen_keenan
New Contributor II

We had a smart group scoped to a policy by mistake, once it was realized, we removed the smart group from scope, even deleted the smart group but we've been getting notifications for the past 24 hours that the policy is still running on these machines.
We've since disabled the policy, but it's one we need for our campus imaging. Jamf 10.9

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sshort
Valued Contributor

Have the machines that are still running the policy been updated in inventory with recon?

mm2270
Legendary Contributor III

I have seen behavior like this in the past, but in most cases this was because of check-ins that were already in progress on the machines when they were in scope. If there were several policies queued up to run, even after you disable the policy or remove scope to the errant policy as you did, if it had been queued to run on a Mac, it will still actually run when it's time to. At least that's what I've seen.
However, I don't think I've ever seen the policy logs continue to roll in for as long as 24 hours. It's more like for the next hour or two in the cases I recall.
Can you check to see if some of those logs just weren't delayed in being uploaded to the Jamf Pro server? Sometimes policy logs fail to upload for a variety of reasons, and then on next check in, the Mac will upload the logs that it stored locally on the machine, so the timestamps can be off. It usually tells you in the log that the actual execution time was different than the time the log was uploaded though.