Sam_Brown

You should be able to do a Shift+F10 to bring up the console. Can you do an IPCONFIG at all to see if it's actually picked up the network card and you've gotten an IP Address or not. Then try Notepad.exe x:\Windows\INF\setupapi.app.log and see if it's moaning about drivers etc. Although I appreciate you've said you have the drivers added every time I've seen this issue it's been a drive issue.

Did you manage to figure out exactly what the issue was at all? Just in case someone has a similar issue and finds this thread in the future!

Silly question but assume all the cables are plugged in fully? I know a few times I've replaced screens only for the cable to only be about 90% in. I've also replaced screens with the battery still in and managed to singe the end of the cables before which led to similar issues like this.

Probably the inverter although never had to diagnose it before. We have plenty of spares here to just go changing things willy nilly and see what sticks...

This thread MIGHT help as well... http://www.edugeek.net/forums/enterprise-software/107527-sccm-2012-sp1-w7-osd-issue.html

Either permissions or not having the correct network card driver in the WinPE image. Assume you can press F8 and bring up the command prompt? Can you do an ipconfig and try pinging some things on your network to make sure that side of things is ok. As for permissions I got this sorted by having a sccm share on the server called SOURCEFILES and everything to do with distributing apps and OS was under that. That way only had one place I needed to make sure the permissions etc were set currently.

What error message are you getting on the TS? Log file doesn't show anything obvious.

I just updated my post with the reg edit RM gave me. Hope it helps.

The RM Volume App isn't compatible with Windows 7. I've solved this before let me dig out how... This is the official response I got... bear in mind it's for volume, network and power so edit the reg as required... * Copy a registry policy * Copy and paste the text below the line , into a blank notepad document, and save it as VolumeIcon.reg. http://www.pastebin.ca/2464065 * Edit the new policy, and add the VolumeIcon.reg file as a custom setting. * Assign the new registry policy to a test user account, and then log them onto a Windows 7 laptop. You should now see the notification icons on the task bar, including the battery, default Windows volume control, and the network icon. *If you are happy with the results this provides, please add the showbattery.reg file to your other user registry policies, or globally via the All Users registry policy. The original topic is here so will probably help... http://www.edugeek.net/forums/windows/124038-rm-cc4-how-show-power-volume-icons-system-tray.html

Afternoon All, We have been using some software recently that reads out loud what's on screen. This is useful for exams where students with reading difficulty can "listen" to exam questions. The software we've been using is called Dolphin SaySo which is pretty good but an absolute nightmare to install across the network so we have to resort to installing it by hand the majority of the time which is very time consuming. I'm wondering if anyone has any alternative programs out there that will do a similar job?

Right click the TS in SCCM and go to the Advanced tab. Under "Use a boot image" is it set to the correct Boot Image?

Must admit I've never used MDT before. Not entirely sure what it can do to be honest. I went straight from WDS to SCCM. I do agree with you by the way. Having updates already in the base image would be preferable. I'm not justifying the way it's currently set up when there are things I can implement to improve the current system (although it works well at the moment luckily). Is there a way to take the standard install.wim from the Windows 7 and slip stream the updates in or is B&C the way to go?

Most of our updates just get installed once the laptops are out and about in use. I never managed to get updates deploying at build time. Is it easy enough to get sorted? I might have to look into it the next time we refresh all our workstations.

What are the benefits of doing a B&C over installing from install.wim from the Windows 7 DVD? I tried a few times to get B&C working but always seemed to mess up installing the Config Client so I went with installing from the install.wim and it worked fine first time so I never bothered to go back and look at getting B&C working when the current way we do it worked fine. Most workstations image in < 60 minutes.

Morning Guys, Anyone know of an easy way to create E-Mail Groups based on SIMS Groups? We have some teachers that would like to e-mail the students in their groups but obviously we don't want to create E-Mail Groups by hand on the scale they are asking for? I've heard about SalamanderSoft but no idea how much it costs and would like to keep the price as close to free as possible! Any tips?

Thanks for the recommendation. I'm signing up for it now and will give it a trial. You're awesome. Sam

Ah yes. Unfortunately well aware of issues with Tablets (iPads mainly) and their inability to deal with proxies. Transparent proxy here though luckily. We can set a range of IP Addresses to not require authentication and stick student filtering on it so proxy hopefully won't be an issue. I'll have a look at Meraki - Any rough idea on pricing at all? Just purely doing some really early research. Also how stringent is the licensing for Android apps? Have to purchase each app once per device? I'm assuming that's another cost they've not thought factored into the budget for this little project!

Primary school I'm involved with is looking to buy 70 Samsung Galaxy Tabs. Believe they are also getting 3 charge and sync stations as well. Does anyone have any experience with managing Android Devices? I'm sure there are MDMs available out there but I've no idea what's good and what's bad. Any recommendations? Also depending on price of MDM... Are there any Apple Configurator type solutions out there that will let me sort out the devices en masse?

Ok all sorted finally. I'll put the answer purely because I hate googling issues the people fixing them and never posting how they did it!!! I tried a variety of different things but appears there were a few corrupt records in the SCCM database. I came across a post somewhere else and ran the following SQL Statements on my SCCM SQL SERVER... SELECT * FROM ResPolicyMap WHERE machineid = 0 and PADBID IN (SELECT PADBID FROM PolicyAssignment WHERE BodyHash IS NULL) The above will show up any corrupt policies in SCCM and the following will remove the corrupt policies... Delete FROM ResPolicyMap WHERE machineid = 0 and PADBID IN (SELECT PADBID FROM PolicyAssignment WHERE BodyHash IS NULL) This seems to have fixed both the not being able to image issue and the sporadic issues with clients not talking to SCCM correctly.

This is how we deploy a lot of our older software. Create a batch file and stick it in a package with the all required files etc. Works fine 99% of the time.

Ok removed all references to a test computer in SCCM and added the record manually with MAC Address and still having the same issue... I've completely removed WDS and PXE and reinstalled as suggested on another forum and no luck with that either. *sigh*

Morning, Thanks for the early morning reply! TS's have all been deployed and all content has been distributed to the DPs. I do have F8 enabled with CMTRACE. Here is a copy of the log file although I can't see anything out of the ordinary. This issue seems to be affecting everything now, including machines we've managed to build in the past with no issues. EDIT: EDUGEEK doesn't seem to want me to upload log files so here's a link to a private pastebin with the contents in.

I'm wondering if it's related to another serious issue where we're currently unable to build any new machines. Keep on getting a No Task Sequences exist for this computer and then it bombs out of Windows PE. Not changed anything with SCCM recently and all of a sudden we can't build computers! Boundaries and Collections are all fine.

In the PolicyAgent.log I'm getting the following entry when it tries to download the policy: Skipping request for user policy assignments due to agent configuration for authority 'SMS:DUS'. PolicyAgent_RequestAssignments 26/02/2014 15:42:39 2420 (0x0974)

After running winmgmt /salvagerepository it says the WMI Database is not corrupted and is consistent. Seems to be on all of the servers I've recently added the client to and not just one or two.