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great to hear it !

I didn't say it was practical, I was only offering you a choice of what to do based on your problem, if you think the console would need the functionality you desire then i'd suggest you raise a DCR (desired configuration request) for the new feature on connect.microsoft.com and who knows, based on popularity it may make it into the next version of Configuration Manager

do explain exactly what permissions you changed just so others can learn, thanks

it's not hanging it's actually running the HTA as a system process so you don't see it, the user doesn't see it. If you open task manager and look at the processes do you see MSHTA.exe running ? kill it and the task sequence will continue, use serviceUI.exe instead to display the hta

enable command support in your boot wim, then redistribute your boot images to the dp, once done, pxe boot again, and immediatly after pressing F12, once WinPE loads, press F8, then grab the logs from x:\windows\temp\smstslog\smsts.log

i didnt spend any time figuring out how many hours off will cause an issue, but it's really the date that's the clincher as far as i could see, in other words if your date is off, it will fail to retrieve policy, the policy it's failing to retrieve is Machine Policy from Configuration Manager, not Group Policy from AD, if you want to check how many hours make it also fail, feel free to do so

correct, you'd have to go back into your task sequences and replace the old image with the new one, it's the only supported way I can think of to start with a clean slate so to speak

are you starting the capture within Windows ?

more than likely one or more of your updates is causing a double reboot or rebooting when the task sequence doesnt expect it check this link for details. http://support2.microsoft.com/kb/2894518

have you seen this ? http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj553405.aspx The following three groups in Configuration Manager can be updated: System Center 2012 Configuration Manager server roles, which include: Central administration site Primary site Secondary site Remote SMS Provider Note Updates for site system roles, including updates for the site database, are installed as part of the update for site servers. Beginning with Configuration Manager SP1, updates for site system roles include updates that apply to cloud-based distribution points. However, updates that apply to a pull-distribution point, install as an update for the Configuration Manager client and not as an update for site system roles.

the error translates to: so is there some quota configured ?

I would imagine removing the wim from the console, and then adding it back would produce a 'clean' result, have you tried that

hmm are some of those UEFI devices x86 ? if so they REQUIRE an x86 boot wim, the surface is native x64 hardware so requires a x64 bit boot wim, please attach the smspxe.log file here please and tell me what mac address you are using on the Surface, also remember the last task sequence deployed to a collection will be the boot wim that 'answers' the pxe request (LIFO)

have you followed my guide exactly ? are you sure it's pulling down a 64bit boot wim ? what happens when you UEFI network boot, what do you see before it fails...

what i mean is to update the firmware BEFORE the build, as there were issues with some docking stations having issues with PXE boot and those issues are resolved with the updated firmware. Here's the process of updating the firmware offline, I'd suggest you try it. http://blogs.technet.com/b/askpfeplat/archive/2014/10/20/how-to-update-the-surface-pro-3-firmware-offline-using-a-usb-drive.aspx

thanks ! have you tried updating the firmware (offline or online) on the troublesome Surface Pro 3's ?

Microsoft has released a new build of Windows 10 to the insiders, you can get it by updating Windows 10 by clicking on the Start menu and type Windows Update Settings which will bring up the below when Windows Update Settings opens up, click the Windows Update back arrow as shown above, then select Preview Builds change from Slow to Fast to get builds quicker than normal if you don't mind more bugs then click on Check Now followed by Download Now and off it goes downloading... click on Install Now when it's finished downloading

have you seen this post ?

hi Mikey i just tested it here, worked fine, which file are you failing to download (link please)

could be that MDT Integration is corrupt, try uninstalling it, reinstalling it, re-integrating it with Configmgr ?

Today the following sessions from Michael Niehaus were put on channel 9, check them out ! - well worth watching http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/Europe/2014/WIN-B338 http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/Europe/2014/WIN-B334 cheers niall

ok then, so you are deploying a captured image and it's failing... where ? please describe at which point it's failing as the logs didn't exactly show the failure from what i could see i think what's happening is it's failing after setup windows and configmgr and you are losing the log, so please retest a deployment and when it fails press f8 immediately and capture all logs that match smsts*.log on both x: (if in winpe) and c (or d:) do a dir /s smsts*.log to find them

ok you are a bit confused, the SCCM Admin console is not the same thing as the Configuration Manager client, which does install as part of the task sequence, so from what you are saying i'm guessing that your os is downloaded, then setup windows and configmgr starts but it's failing after that point, correct ? from your log above it looks like you are trying to CAPTURE an image, is that what you are trying to do ? and it states you cancelled the capture <![LOG[Command line: "D:\SMS\bin\i386\OsdCaptureCD.exe"]LOG]!><time="13:23:45.573+300" date="11-16-2012" component="OSDCaptureCD" context="" type="0" thread="2976" file="osdcapturecd.cpp:115"> <![LOG[Loading vista instructions.]LOG]!><time="13:23:45.588+300" date="11-16-2012" component="OSDCaptureCD" context="" type="0" thread="2976" file="welcomepage.cpp:63"> <![LOG[Activating Welcome Page.]LOG]!><time="13:23:45.588+300" date="11-16-2012" component="OSDCaptureCD" context="" type="0" thread="2976" file="welcomepage.cpp:92"> <![LOG[Verifying that this machine meets the capture requirements.]LOG]!><time="13:23:50.846+300" date="11-16-2012" component="OSDCaptureCD" context="" type="1" thread="2976" file="welcomepage.cpp:141"> <![LOG[Local machine is not a domain controller.]LOG]!><time="13:23:50.846+300" date="11-16-2012" component="OSDCaptureCD" context="" type="1" thread="2976" file="deployutil.cpp:603"> <![LOG[system partition is NTFS]LOG]!><time="13:23:50.846+300" date="11-16-2012" component="OSDCaptureCD" context="" type="1" thread="2976" file="deployutil.cpp:528"> <![LOG[Verified deploy tools are present.]LOG]!><time="13:23:50.846+300" date="11-16-2012" component="OSDCaptureCD" context="" type="1" thread="2976" file="deployutil.cpp:448"> <![LOG[Computer is part of domain 'xxxxxxxxxx', disjoin and start image capture]LOG]!><time="13:23:50.846+300" date="11-16-2012" component="OSDCaptureCD" context="" type="3" thread="2976" file="deployutil.cpp:565"> <![LOG[Capture has been cancelled by the user.]LOG]!><time="13:24:02.623+300" date="11-16-2012" component="OSDCaptureCD" context="" type="3" thread="2976" file="wizardcontrol.cpp:101"> <![LOG[Exiting with return code 0x800704C7]LOG]!><time="13:24:02.623+300" date="11-16-2012" component="OSDCaptureCD" context="" type="1" thread="2976" file="osdcapturecd.cpp:157"> <![LOG[Process completed with exit code 2147943623]LOG]!><time="13:24:02.623+300" date="11-16-2012" component="TSMBootstrap" context="" type="1" thread="1668" file="commandline.cpp:1102"> <![LOG[pre-execution hook returned error: 0x800704c7]LOG]!><time="13:24:02.623+300" date="11-16-2012" component="TSMBootstrap" context="" type="3" thread="1668" file="tsmediawizardcontrol.cpp:1376"> <![LOG[Executing command line: "D:\SMS\BIN\I386\TsProgressUI.exe" /Unregister]LOG]!><time="13:24:02.623+300" date="11-16-2012" component="TSMBootstrap" context="" type="1" thread="1668" file="commandline.cpp:805">

two steps back here, what are you actually trying to do here, install an OS or something else ?

are you sure no other window is waiting on your input, have you closed and re-opened the console ?