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We have an ongoing problem which has been brought up on other forums but thought i'd try here in case anyone had a solution. So we're currently having to set our OSD task sequences to ONLY run on Windows 2000 based machines. This prevents the task sequences being advertised on all our machines within windows, but allows us to pxe boot the machines and run optional/mandatory sequences. This is mainly to prevent the icon from springing up in the notification area when a task sequence becomes available. This has worked fine but is not ideal as it causes problems with duplicate records in sccm. This means that if I need software to be distributed to the computers immediately after deployment, I have to run a system discovery for the new computer objects to be dropped into the right collection. Then I have to run a machine policy update. This is all a bit of a backwards way of doing things, not to mention the amount of rejected advertisement data this is collecting. Ideally what we need is for task sequences only to be available in windows to certain users (us) and disabled for everyone else. The other option is to find a way to disable the notification icon on the task bar which pops up if there's an advertisement. Little Jimmy can't run the TS though, as they don't have privileges but it really has to be hidden...just in case. If you're wondering why I don't just install the software during the task sequence it's because our converted Prism packages don't play nice with config manager and usually fail. Any ideas?? Cheers chris

I'm using SCCM 2007 R2 to deploy Windows 7 and I've noticed that the OS Disk gets labelled D: Although this isn't terrible, I'd prefer it to be C: (expecially given the lack of any other partitions!). Any ideas? I created my WinPE images and task sequences via MDT 2010 (integrated to SCCM). The issue arrises on x86 and x64 installs.

does anyone have a working unattened.xml file for 7 through sccm, as I have just created one and since I have added it to my sccm TS when the build reboots it comes back with bootmgr missing, if i take out the unattend.xml file it builds fine but with out my setting.

Hi, Wondering if anyone can give me a few pointers. We are trying to set up a box for SCCM 2007 to use as it is required to deploy the new forefront protection 2010. So far, I've got the server set up, with a management point, which from Collections > All Systems, I can see all of the domain computers. If I click on install client, this then happens (as far as I am aware) and if I go to the machine which I believe that I have installed it on, I see the four extra things in control panel (configuration manager, run advertised programs, etc) If I go back to the Configuration Manager Console however, client still says no and approved says N\a. Does anybody know that I'm doing wrong. After days of playing with this I feel that it's so close!!! Any help would be really appreciated. Cheers, Ed

I wonder if there's anyone knowledgeable enough to enlighten me on this subject. We've just had a new system put in and are using SCCM/WDS to build our computers. I don't think we've had any trouble imaging machines first time around, but any time we go to reimage a machine we have to delete it out of config manager first, according to the chaps who set the thing up for us, otherwise we can't image anything. This seems like a dumb way of having to do things to me, but being a complete newbie to the system I don't know any better. I miss having a system where we can just image on demand, and I don't understand why we can't do this with SCCM. My suspicion is that it will do what we want it to do but we don't know how to make it do it yet. Not only that, but the method has so far not been foolproof as a collection of MSI Winds we have here needed reimaging but as far as I can see from the smspxe.log the guid of the machines has remained lurking in the database after we've deleted the machine from config manager leaving us unable to reimage. I tried creating bootable media for the Task Sequence, which booted but then gave up, saying there were no tasks for that client. How I assign the task to the machine I don't know. The gaps in my knowledge are vast, and I would appreciate any suggestions for good self help guides because we're not getting the training we had expected to get when the project was started. I've seen lots of step by step "do this, then that, then this and you'll get this" kind of stuff but that's not helping me understand how it all works.

Slightly cheeky question does anyone have 30 - 40 minutes free to go through a live demonstration of their SCCM with me over the phone/webinar and go through the various features. It's something we are looking at and need to know if it's for us. If you don't want to post publicly feel free to PM me Thanks Dan

I've started to play around with SCCM 2007, i've got it setup and am able to distribute software to clients without a problem. I'm now trying OSD and running into problems booting from PXE/getting a response from the SCCM. This is what I have done so far, hopefully someone can point me in the right direction.... SCCM is setup, installed on our servers VLAN, the client I am testing it with is on another VLAN and has the client installed. WDS has been installed and not configured on the SCCM server I've created PXE service point and add the 2 images that come with SCCM to the DP (SMSPXEIMAGES$) In DHCP (which is on a different server) I have the following options set (on 1 scope that I am testing this with) Option 60 = PXEClient Option 66 = 10.59.100.50 (IP of SCCM server) Option 67 = REMINST\Boot\x86\wdsnbp.com On my Core Switch I have IP Helper address which forward requests to the 2 DHCP servers. When I try and boot the client using PXE I get the error that says: proxydhcp did not reply to request on port 4011 Can anybody point me in the right direction as to what I have done wrong or missed?

Hi guys Not sure if this has been asked already but a lot of old stuff for Windows XP shows up when I search - is there a good guide for setting up OS Deployment with SCCM? I'm interested in trying to get SCCM to do our deployments instead of MDT+WDS but would like recommendations of a good tutorial to guide me through it, we are using Windows 7 for the clients. Cheers!

Hi all, I am just in the process of learning about SCCM and would like some advise please. I have heard that is possible to link your SCCM collections to your AD OU's so that when I place a computer in a certain OU (say Design technolgy) it automatically picks up the Design Technology specific software package advertisements and installs them. Has anyone successfully implemented this in a school environment? I found this guide earlier: Deploy software through AD Groups linked to Collections in SCCM - www.windows-noob.com Is that what I need to do? Any advise or tips or help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks all

Just wanting to pick the brains of those who have already done it... My aim when deploying 7 is to take one Gold image (which I'll either prepare manually or via a Task Sequence) then send it out to all the various hardware types on the network. In theory this should work something like... - prepare image on some sort of virtual platform (might as well use vSphere) - capture as per usual - add driver packages to SCCM - apply WMI query to task sequence - apply correct driver pack as required - Windows should then auto install drivers and produce a complete imaged machine The only thing I'm wondering about is how much to strip the driver folders down. On one hand I want to ensure I don't get any pointless autorun programs (sound and graphics usually the offenders) but on the other don't want to end up debugging spurious errors if I go too far...

Its not often SCCM beats me, but this time it has (for now). SLT have all got some nice shiny new Sony Z13's (i7 4GB ram and SSD), not my choice but its what the head wanted. Realtek NIC driver Injected into the Boot.wim without issue. Then the TS started failing at the format/partition task with 0x80070490 error (great 1 MS!) Easy, so i thought. Tried Injecting Drivers from sony site for the Sata Raid + Intel® ICH7R/DH SATA AHCI Controller which at 1st was causing issues with WDS failing to start. download from intel site seemed to inject ok and WDS service now restarts without issue. The SSD drives in these machines seem to have 2x64GB SSD so im not 100% sure how these should be configured in the TS for it to work properly or if i still have a driver issue? any ideas or pointers in the right direction on this would be greatly appreciated!

I've tried to install SCCM on a server and got 90% of the way there... I just wondered if anyone has an installation guide/walkthrough on how to setup from scratch? Google not thrown much up thats of any use. I've got sccm installed ok and managed to pull the machine names from AD, deployed the client successfully - but the clients don't seem to be connecting to the server properly as the server doesn't recognise the fact that the client has been installed. I'm probably missing something simple....? Do I need to add firewall exceptions on the client machines or something? Any help appreciated!

I want to evaluate SCCM 2007 before I buy it but for the life of me can't figure out how to actually get hold of the trial version. The homepage for SCCM clearly states that there is a free trial. So I click this link to be told that SCCM 2007 R2 trial required SCCM 2007 to be installed already but you can download the "full trial" from here/ But this download appears to be for SCCM 2007 SP1 which requires SCCM 2007 to already be installed Anyone know if I can actually trial SCCM 2007 and where to get it from? Cheers. Edit: Ignore, I found another link that does actually take you to the right download.

I'm struggling to get the SCCM client puched out to my machines AFAIK, everything is setup correctly. I have SCCM 2007 R2 installed on Server 2008 R2. All the pre-requisites passed and I have even updated the AD schema I've even read books and tutorials and everything! All the CCMSetup log files are displaying the same messages... Any and all ideas would be welcomed.

We've been been experiencing a problem whereby advertisments (whether they're for OS deployment/software/etc) aren't being picked up by any of the client computers on our network. I've tried checking through the logs but I can't see anything that could be causing it? There don't seem to be any obvious error messages and we haven't made any changes/updates that I can link back to when this started happening. Worryingly this is affecting every computer on our network and it means we're unable to re-image computers or deploy software so I'm just about at the point where I need to log a support call with Microsoft as it needs fixing sooner rather than later! Is there anything obvious that I might have missed which we should try/check before we do?

This is driving me nuts! I am trying to create a DVD set for our staff laptops so that they can be rebuilt without needing to be connected to the network to do it I have created the ISOs (2 x dvd size) and burnt them to disk I take them to the laptop and insert Disc 1, it boots, find the Task Sequence and starts wiping the C: Drive - So far so good.. Next t asks for Disk 2.. So i insert Disc 2.. It then asks for Disc 1 again as soon as it reads Disc 2.. Hmmm.. So I put Disc 1 in again.. It then bombs out with error 0x80040005 I copied the log file (attached) and had a look at it in Trace32.. It came up with: (m_sImageFileName.c_str()), dwDesiredAccess, WIM_OPEN_EXISTING, 0, WIM_COMPRESS_LZX, NULL), HRESULT=80070003 (e:\nts_sms_fre\sms\framework\tscore\wimfile.cpp,292)]LOG]!> configFilePath, this->packagePath, answerFile ), HRESULT=80070003 (e:\nts_sms_fre\sms\client\osdeployment\applyos\installscripted.cpp,464)]LOG]!> The system cannot find the path specified. (Error: 80070003; Source: Windows)]LOG]!> Operation aborted (Error: 80004004; Source: Windows)]LOG]!> The system cannot find the path specified. (Error: 80070003; Source: Windows)]LOG]!> So, for some reason it cannot open my install.wim file... The same TS runs fine via PXE boot It also runs fine, in VM, if creaed as a single 8GB (DL DVD) Iso.. So it appears to be an issue with it being split into 2 DVDs.. I dont really want to invest in more DL DVDs if I can help it when I have loads of normal DVDs lying around.... dvd.txt

For anyone using SCCM 2007 I can highly recommend installing the Right Click Tools. This adds loads of functionality to the right click menu. I stumbled across this when trying to find a tool for remotely reassigning a site code to a client (which this does). Other handy things include initiating client actions such as inventory cycles, WOL and restart, uninstalling the client, rerunning advertisements etc etc.

Hi I have just installed a new sccm server and now want to to add my existing wsus server to it. Any one got any good reference sites for sccm, as after I have done wsus, I want to setup wds

We have SCCM R3 installed on our network and i'm pretty new to using it. I'm currently using SCCM for software installation, which i have learnt from various guides. My question is around the allocation of software to be installed by SCCM. What i have been doing is creating seperate collections for the diffrerent software and then adding computers to the collection. I could group these by department or even room if needed but before i install any more software, can somebody tell me whether this is one of the correct ways of allocating software through SCCM?

Right I have finally got SCCM to interact with WSUS, in that the updates now show in SCCM, but now what do I do now to get them deploying to clients and via OSD Also, how do I decline updates (eg the Browser Choice update..)

Hi All Having an issue with running SCCM to push out my images. It all seems configured correctly - OS installed - machine allocated in the console. I boot the machine to PXE - it connected to the server - runs Windows PE - then it stops when it comes to deploy the OS - The machine then reboots. I have added a NIC driver - but now at a loss Thanks Chris

Hi Guys Me again Can now deploy images Vista and & to my clients. It is setup in my task sequence to format, deploy and Capture. I have to questions. Why do i have the option to build and capture - i thought as i was building a new machine, i don't understand the capture bit. and second bit can't see why my capture not working. Chris

I'm trying to run a 'build and capture' task sequence but the task sequence gets to apply operating system and the machine reboots. This occurs when trying to install x86 or x64 Windows 7 from SCCM 2007 R2. I've tried stripping the task sequence down to a bare format disk and apply OS image (using OS Install Package) and I've removed ALL drivers but this still happens. Using a MDT task sequence it seems to do more, changing the wallpaper to the Windows 7 dove wallpaper briefly. It still just reboots without actually copying the files though Bringing up the command prompt in WinPE lets me see that I have an IP address and I can ping my SCCM server fine so that would suggest that it isn't a NIC driver problem.

I have successfully been using WDS to PXE boot machines. I have now set up SCCM 2007 on a virtual server, and got everything working - apart from PXE boot! the WDS server is now disabled, to allow the SCCM server to 'take over'. I've tried authorising the sccm server in DHCP, but the clients aren't getting IPs from the sccm server. Is there something I'm missing? - I've configured the PXE settings in SCCM to respond to all requests

I was finally getting somewhere with my OSD using SCCM and tests were going well - I could add new computers into a collection via Operating System Deployment->Computer Association and all was well. I've now added a few more packages/programs to be installed with the OS build and deleted the test computers as I had done several times before. My problem now is that I cannot add new computers via Computer Association. I go through the wizard and it all appears OK but then nothing happens. Everything seems to be running OK and I can't seem to see anything in the logs either. HELP!