[sccm 2012] Automating SCCM Deployment

[Disease]

Is there anyway to set an task sequence off from SCCM itself on a computer?

 

If I decide that a teacher machine in isolation needs to be redeployed, rather than physically visiting the machine PXE booting it and then selecting the task can I do it remotely in some fashion, has anyone managed to set this up?

 

Many Thanks

[clareq]

When deploying the task sequence, set it to required not available. Only deploy it to that particular machine (create a device group containing only it). As long as you don't have a password on your TS it will run the next time your computer is started, so use whatever your remote WOL software of preference is and restart the machine.

[TechMonkey]

It is possible, you can also make it self service. I've never done it for fear of being one of those news stories we all laugh at but are secretly glad it wasn't us. Like the Uni that managed to deploy Win10 to all its servers

[Disease]

Managed to find a decent self service way

 

Deployed the O/S Deployment TS to a test group but instead of setting it to 'Only Media and PXE' I set it to 'configuration manager Client'. It now shows as available in the Software Center under Operating Systems.

 

It shows that it already installed, click reinstall and it kicks off and is running.

 

Will feed back when it ends.

[AliG]

You might find you end up in a loop but you can setup a removal script that will remove the computer from this collection ID on success code.