Category: Operating System Deployment

  • SCCM 2012 – Task Sequence Fails – It’s the Updates, dude!

    Hi, here’s Martin again. It’s the Updates, dude! Today a fine TS for installing a Windows Server 2012 isn’t running through anymore. After some investigations, it was caused of a Patch/Update, that needs to reboot the System twice. This double reboot can’t be recognized from the SCCM Task Sequence, and after the second boot, the…

  • SCCM 2012 – Install Windows 7 on SSD fails with error 0x87d00267

    Hi there, here’s Martin again, today I hopefully found the solution for the annoying Problem with devices that has a SSD for the System drive. The Problem was, that the Task sequence stops at different Install Application steps. The smsts.log Shows the following Errors: Policy Evaluation failed, hr=0x87d00267 Install application action failed: ‘App-V Client 4.6…

  • SCCM 2012 R2 – Create Virtual Hard Disk (VHD)

    One of the new Features Microsoft is bringing with System Center 2012 Configuration Manager R2 is the capability to create a VHD out of an Task Sequence with operating System deployment. This allows you to simplify your process of a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure. It is not possible to create a vhdx, but after creation

  • SCCM 2012 – Boot Images are read-only, even as Full Admin

    Today I faced the Problem, that I was not able to select a boot Image, when importing Drivers to System Center 2012 Configuration Manager:

  • SCCM 2012 – Include CU in OSD

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    Please refer to our new Blog Post about including Cumulative Updates: http://blog.hosebei.ch/2014/03/14/sccm-2012-r2-include-client-hotfix-or-cumulative-update-while-on-osd/ Hey, here’s Martin again. This is an often discussed Topic, but now, I found a nice solution to get rid of the Problems when you want to include a cumulative update to your Task Sequence. Also since we got a 32-bit and 64-bit…

  • SCCM 2012 – Unkown computer support and mandatory deployment

    Today I set up my System Center 2012 Configuration Manager R2 Preview Lab, and wanted to have a look with operating System deployment and unknown Computer Support. I’ve never used unknown Computer Support for OSD, thus I deployed the Task sequence as a required, because I always use this for other collections than the unknown…

  • SCCM 2012 – RBAC: Add computer to SCCM

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    Hey, here’s Martin again. You often come across to the requirement, that you have give access to users to the System Center 2012 Configuration Manager Console, that they can add new Computers to the Hierarchy to stage them with a Task Sequence. They only have to add them to a specific collection, nothing more: with Role…

  • SCCM 2012 SP1 – Include Client CU1 in OSD

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    Please refer to our new Blog Post about including Cumulative Updates: http://blog.hosebei.ch/2013/09/24/sccm-2012-include-cu-in-osd/ In this post, I would like to show, how to integrate the Client hotfix cumulative update 1 in the operating System deployment Task sequence. First, CU1 is released and it will create update packages for Site Server, console and client (x64 & x86)…

  • SCCM 2012 SP1 – Windows 8 Language Pack and .Net 3.5 deployment

    If you want to deploy a Windows 8 Image with language packs, and want to install .Net 3.5 later, it will fail. As stated on TechNet (http://technet.microsoft.com/subscriptions/hh506443.aspx), mind, that you will have to install .Net 3.5 first: Installing a Windows language pack on Windows 8 before installing the .NET Framework 3.5 will cause the .NET…

  • SCCM 2012 SP1 – Install Windows 7 to drive letter C:

    You are looking for a easy solution, to get a wim-File, copied directly from the Microsoft source, installed to the Computers drive C:? Here you get it!