Thank you so much, Quinn, appreciate the hints

sudo profiles show -type enrollment

so on the computers that works ManagedClient logs 2 more lines which do not appear on the failing machines. Below is the output from a working machine. The last 2 lines do not appear in the ManagedClient logs from the failing machine. MCXCCacheGraph seems to be related to the reading from the cache which contain our settings but are not populated to /Managed Preferences/ 3135: 0x7a09 ManagedClient ManagedClient 12:29:11.290523-0800 MCX_ConfigCoreData.profilesForAllUsersAsCPProfile return zero configuration profiles. 3135: 0x7a09 ManagedClient ManagedClient 12:29:11.291013-0800 MCX recomposite prefs for user 3135: 0x7a09 ManagedClient ManagedClient 12:29:11.291135-0800 MCX.hasProfileConfigInfoForUser checking installed configuration profiles... 3135: 0x7a09 ManagedClient ManagedClient 12:29:11.291172-0800 MCX_ConfigCoreData.profilesForUserAsCPProfile COMPUTER profiles 3135: 0x7a09 ManagedClient ManagedClient 12:29:11.291379-0800 MCX_ConfigCoreData.profilesForUserAsCPProfile return zero profiles. 3135: 0x7a09 ManagedClient ManagedClient 12:29:11.291410-0800 MCX.hasProfileProvisioningInfo checking installed provisioning profiles... 3135: 0x7a09 ManagedClient ManagedClient 12:29:11.291418-0800 MCX_ConfigCoreData.profilesForAllUsersAsCPProfile ALL provisioning profiles 3135: 0x7a09 ManagedClient ManagedClient 12:29:11.291451-0800 MCX_ConfigCoreData.cp_profilesForPredicate executeFetchRequest returned objects = 0 3135: 0x7a09 ManagedClient ManagedClient 12:29:11.291475-0800 MCX_ConfigCoreData.profilesForAllUsersAsCPProfile return zero provisioning profiles. 3135: 0x7a09 ManagedClient ManagedClient 12:29:11.301601-0800 MCX_ConfigCoreData.profilesForUserAsCPProfile COMPUTER profiles 3135: 0x7a09 ManagedClient ManagedClient 12:29:11.301655-0800 MCX_ConfigCoreData.profilesForUserAsCPProfile return zero profiles. **3135: 0x7a09 ManagedClient ManagedClient 12:29:11.921744-0800 3135: 0x7a09 ManagedClient ManagedClient 12:29:11.921757-0800 MCX.getComputerInfoFromStartup: MCXCCacheGraph() == -2 ()** Any idea why the cache is skipped and how to make MCX look into the cached settings?