SCCM Task Sequence - Re-Run if previous attempt failed? Advice sought.

[mullet_man]

Hi,

 

Am not well up on SCCM so was wondering if someone could give me a bit of advice.

 

I've created and deployed a task sequence that

 

1. Removes Office 2013

2. Restarts the device

3. Installs Office 2016

4. Activates Office 2016

 

Everything seems to be working fine and most devices are running the TS as required but so far I've got about 20 devices where the TS has failed. Checking the deployment status I can see that some devices have failed on the Install Office 2016 step after completing the removal of 2013. I have my deployment rerun behaviour set to rerun if failed previous attempt.

 

Now my questions are

 

1. What is the time interval for when the re-run take place? Am assuming there is a default?

2. Will the re-run attempt the whole TS or just the step it failed on? (as my TS steps are in a group where if checks to see if 2013 is installed before it runs, if a failed TS managed to uninstall office 2013 then the TS will stop and not install office 2016 leaving the device without Office)

 

Hope that all makes sense.

 

Thanks in advance.

[snagrat]

I don't believe the re-run is automatic.

 

It is there so if you create a new deployment it checks to see if the deployment has been successful before and if so doesn't attempt it again.

[mullet_man]

Ah ok that makes some sort of sense.

 

I've adjusted my TS as because I'd grouped the tasks together if it didn't finish and just removed Office 2013 it wouldn't then install Office 2016 as the condition of Office 2013 being installed started off my group of steps.

 

I've edited it so that it groups just the removal of Office 2013 steps, then restarts and then installs Office 2016. This should help with the devices that have failures.

 

Thanks.