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Migration : There's got to be an easier way

Thu, 17 May 2012 13:59:59 +0000

Hey guys, I'm posting this here from my post on TechNet. I'm getting frustrated because I feel that I must be doing this wrong somehow.

Basically my issue is that I feel that I must be doing unnecessary work somewhere here, and want to make it all easier on me. We're about to begin migrating user's from an old pc to a new one, though the new one may also have been present in SCCM. The new PC will be renamed along the process.

Here is my current procedure:

In SCCM, import new computer record, and create computer association with Source PC
Place Source PC in USMT Capture collection in SCCM
Manually PXE boot new PC for OSD
When Source PC finishes USMT Capture, manually place Destination PC in USMT Restore collection

I left out hours of crying in frustration as I try to try down any duplicate records a machine may have, as my organization is *VERY* big on redeploying hardware. Normally I have to track down any old computer accounts in AD and delete them, then go to SCCM and search many times for any old SCCM records. This can take a LONG time.
How are you guys simplifying this process? I've thought of skipping the first step, and only creating the computer association after the new PC is imaged. I would handle the OSD process by creating a W7 Laptop and Desktop OSD optional advertisement and suppressing all notifications for it. Implementing this method to prompt in task sequence for computer name, and hoping SCCM is smart enough to focus only on the current record, ignoring any previous deployments this PC may have had.
So, what do you think? Is this dumb? Is there an easier way to do this? Why do I ask so many questions?

USMT Failed : The Printer is out of Paper

Wed, 16 May 2012 17:36:27 +0000

Well...this is a new one.

I started USMT today like I do most days, that is, after hours of tears, frustration, pleading, threats and cajoling, only to be presented with the following error:

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The task sequence execution engine failed executing the action (Capture User Files and Settings) in the group (Capture User and Files Settings) with the error code 2147942428
Action output: s to user params successful
Building user defined params successful
Building USMT command successful
Successfully connected to "\\SCCM.CONTOSO.ORG\SMPSTOREE_8DA5D367$\98C1DFC8C342B592C9A3420BBBF355D39D84700D0FF3D4D88AA59EF8279F467B"
Executing command line: "C:\_SMSTaskSequence\Packages\ATL0001B\x86\scanstate.exe" "\\SCCM.CONTOSO.ORG\SMPSTOREE_8DA5D367$\98C1DFC8C342B592C9A3420BBBF355D39D84700D0FF3D4D88AA59EF8279F467B" /o /localonly /encrypt /key:*** /c /efs:copyraw /v:5 /l:"C:\WINDOWS\system32\CCMLogs\SMSTSLog\scanstate.log" /progress:"C:\WINDOWS\system32\CCM\Logs\SMSTSLog\scanstateprogress.log" /i:"C:\_SMSTaskSequence\Packages\ATL0001B\x86\MigUser.xml" /i:"C:\_SMSTaskSequence\Packages\ATL0001B\x86\MigDocs.xml" /i:"C:\_SMSTaskSequence\Packages\AT0001B\x86\MigPst.Xml"

Log messages are being sent to 'C:\WINDOWS\system32\CCM\Logs\SMSTSLog\scanstate.log'

USMT returned exit code (0x0000001c). Look USMT log file scanstate.log for detail error message.
OSDMigrateUserState finished: 0x8007001c. The operating system reported error 2147942428: The printer is out of paper. .

So...this is a new one.

SCCM - Windows 7 Migration Network USMT

Wed, 16 May 2012 16:19:32 +0000

Hello Everyone,
We are in the middle of gearing up for Windows 7 migration. I am in the process of testing the TS that will be used for the migration. I am running into issues though. My company uses Check Point for hard drive encryption. I got the boot image to commuicate with the hard drive when it first reboots into it. I have the "State Migration Point" configured on the site server. I want to do the following and need to know if it is possible.

- Capture user settings and data. (TS has to be started in OS)
- Perform a full wipe on the drive. (Removed Checkpoint from the hard drive.)
- Apply Win 7 image.
- Restore user settings and data.

Thanks in advance for your time.

WDS "full" cole hdd

Wed, 16 May 2012 10:59:16 +0000

Hi

I wondering if WDS can full "capture" a hdd?
Sonario:
- Just installed a clean win7 image
- Installed all updates
- installed sevral programs feks: anti virus, mail, web-browser, PH, aso...
- Changed background

Then capture image with WDS or something els if possible?

Is it then possible to deploy that image, to another computer(s) and all of the changes and programs slides right in? with out GPO.
Or do you have to use ghost or something els for this kind of work?

-----Thanks for your time -------

Exchange 2010 user calendars "user is busy notification from server"

Wed, 16 May 2012 10:20:43 +0000

Hi, this is my first post here. Could not google myself to an answer for this question, as most of them are related to meeting room mailboxes.
My boss wants to know if there is an option in Exchange 2010 for this:

Boss invites 10 colleagues to a meeting via the calendar.
He forgets/cba to check the availabilty tab when inviting the users.
He sends out the invitation, but he wants to know if there is any way that he would get an automated reply from the exchange server saying that "User X and User Y is already booked for that time."

Is this at all possible? He mentioned this was possible in the earlier versions of Exchange.

Hope this made sense

Cheers

SCCM installation

Wed, 16 May 2012 09:01:59 +0000

I have been trying hard to install SCCM 2007 on my Windows 2008 for testing and learning. pupose.
I have installed all the roles and features which are the pre requisite for it
SQL server was also installed successfully.

Pre requisite checked also gave a green sginal and installation started but it stopped after installing 3 components at file services. Please help.

Not sure what exactly I need to check here. It happened couple of times before as well.

Logs

<05-15-2012 23:29:40> WMI ConnectServer failed (root\sms), Error code = 0x8004100e
<05-15-2012 23:29:40> WMI ConnectServer failed (root\sms)
<05-15-2012 23:29:40> ***SqlError: [08S01][11][Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][DBMSLPCN]General network error. Check your network documentation.
<05-15-2012 23:29:40> Unable to connect to SQL. Provider machine account could not be removed from smsdbrole_siteprovider.
<05-15-2012 23:29:40> Delnode of
<05-15-2012 23:29:40> Removing SMS_ADMIN_UI_PATH system environment variable ...
<05-15-2012 23:29:40> Starting WMI.
<05-15-2012 23:29:40> Using default Timeout value.
<05-15-2012 23:29:40> Checking status of WinMgmt...
<05-15-2012 23:29:41> Verified that WinMgmt is running.
<05-15-2012 23:29:41> Attempting to delete legacy SMS program groups
<05-15-2012 23:29:41> Failed to delete program group C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Systems Management Server with error 2
<05-15-2012 23:29:41> Attempting to delete Configuration Manager 2007 sub-program group
<05-15-2012 23:29:41> Failed to delete program group C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Microsoft System Center\Configuration Manager 2007 with error 3
<05-15-2012 23:29:41> Attempting to delete Microsoft System Center program group
<05-15-2012 23:29:41> Failed to delete program group C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Microsoft System Center with error 2

Attached Files

ConfigMgrSetup.log 601.33K 2 downloads

Deploying Applications

Tue, 15 May 2012 19:05:43 +0000

Hi I am having a small problem. When assigning machines to a specific collection that is made, software is being pushed alright. When software is being removed from machines locally by admins SCCM does not re-push it, how do I make it re-push the software to machines where it gets uninstalled at? (Is there a way of doing it without removing and readding the machines from the collection?)
Thanks.

new image not joining to domain

Tue, 15 May 2012 18:21:36 +0000

Hello,
Our old image that we created would join the computer to the domain at the end of the OSD task sequence. With our new image it does not join itself and there do not appear to be any noticable logs entries that have anything to do with adding to the domain in the 'C:\Windows\syswow64\ccm\logs' folder.
We use MDT 2010 with the UDI Wizard.
The old image was a 64 bit Windows 7. The new image is a 64 bit SP1 Windows 7.
The only real difference would be the added Windows updates included within SP1.

To build the image we used the Build and Capture process described on this website.
The only difference is we broke the build and capture into two steps so that we could apply additional windows updates
We found a post that talked about checking the C:\Windows\debug\netlogon.log.
lpMachineAccountOU: (NULL) is something that we noticed was different.
The old image had the full domain ou in this entry.

The only thing we did in the task sequence was to change the step Apply Operating System Image to the new image.

Any ideas would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Shawn

Compliance 2 - Specific software update - can it be modified

Tue, 15 May 2012 13:50:35 +0000

Hi ,

Can the above be modified and be made with the below requirements ?

When i open the report it should open the screen with options for

collection id - however it should not show all the collections. only the collections i want

bulletin ID and article ID - not all the ID.but only the ID's i want

What changes i need to be make in the script so that it shows a set of collections and bulletin ID ?

broken WDS ... help!?

Tue, 15 May 2012 13:06:58 +0000

WDS stopped working over the weekend for no apparent reason. Came in Monday to find that we can't PXE boot to image our machines from SCCM2007. All machines we attempt to image simply report "no boot image available".

WDS is cranky and unstable at the best of times. I've seen this error enough that I thought I knew what to do. I removed the PXE distribution points from SCCM, removed the PXE service point, un-installed WDS, renamed the RemoteInstall folder, rebooted a couple times, re-installed WDS, re-installed the PXE service point, re-created the PXE distribution points...

And it's still broken.

WDS starts up OK... I'm not getting the usual 1067 error.

Instead, WDS starts up and I get one error (ID 258) and one warning (ID 512) logged.

I've un-installed and re-installed WDS (as well as the PXE service point) at least a dozen times now. I've re-created boot images, task sequences, and everything. I've tweaked the registry to disable multi-threading, I've double-checked with our network guys to make sure they didn't change anything interesting.

Frankly, at this point, I'm stumped.

The error text from the WDSIMGSRV/258 error makes me think that some component isn't installing correctly... But I'm not entirely sure what to do about that. Maybe REGSRVR some DLL?

Absolutely any assistance in resolving this issue would be greatly appreciated.

Log Name:	  Application
Source:		WDSServer
Date:		  5/14/2012 3:58:43 PM
Event ID:	  512
Task Category: WDSServer
Level:		 Warning
Keywords:	  Classic
User:		  N/A
Computer:	  REDACTED
Description:
An error occurred while trying to initialize provider WdsImgSrv from C:\Windows\system32\WdsImgSrv.dll. Since this provider is not marked as critical, Windows Deployment Services server will  continue.

Error Information: 0xC1030104

Log Name:	  Application
Source:		WDSIMGSRV
Date:		  5/14/2012 3:58:43 PM
Event ID:	  258
Task Category: (1)
Level:		 Error
Keywords:	  Classic
User:		  N/A
Computer:	  REDACTED
Description:
The description for Event ID 258 from source WDSIMGSRV cannot be found. Either the component that raises this event is not installed on your local computer or the installation is corrupted. You can install or repair the component on the local computer.
If the event originated on another computer, the display information had to be saved with the event.
The following information was included with the event:
0xC1030104