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the Build conference is underway in San Francisco and developers there are getting access to a preview release of Windows 8.1, if reports floating around on Twitter are to be believed and if we are lucky we will be able to download the preview also via the following link http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-8/download-preview let me know if the ISOs appear there soon will you it seems it's already available, hint: check MSDN while it's downloading you can look at the following list of things to look for cheers niall

for the sake of others reading this topic, no you do not need to update your boot images as the upgrade process takes care of that for you, however in some cases things can go wrong (such as with antivirus exclusions not being setup correctly) and in those cases you'll need to rebuild the boot images as described here

are those windows 8 computers correctly getting policy ?

sure it's possible, but i'd recommend you do a install on a standalone server, don't you have a lab ?

yes the steps are the same, use the newest SP available which is Configuration Manager 2007 SP2.

Introduction Today at Tech Ed Europe 2013 in Madrid, Brad Anderson announced the availability of System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager preview (amongst other things). In this post I will focus on installing the R2 preview release on Configuration Manager 2012 SP1 (which just so happens to have Cu2 installed). In the past, R2 releases for System Center products traditionally add cool features to an otherwise complete product so this is going to be exciting. Note: Test upgrading to R2 in a LAB before doing it in production and always backup your database before doing so. When upgrading a hierarchy always upgrade from the Top down, for example that would be CAS ---> Primaries ---> Secondaries ---> clients Step 1. Get the goodies You can get the System Center 2012 Configuration Manager R2 Preview release from here. Once you've downloaded the bits extract them to somewhere like C:\SC2012_R2_Preview_SCCM_SCEP Once done, download Windows ADK 8.1 from here. Step 2. Uninstall Windows ADK 8.0 Before you install R2, you'll need to satisfy certain prerequisites, and one of those is ADK 8.1, and as part of that you'll need to uninstall Windows ADK 8.0, it's not sufficient to simply install ADK 8.1 over ADK 8.0. Open control panel and locate Windows Automated Installation Kit, click it and choose Uninstall (it's the one with version 8.59.25584). Once uninstalled, no need for a reboot. Step 3. Install Windows ADK 8.1 Now that you've removed the previous version, download the new ADK to support Windows 8.1 and Server 2012 R2 from here. Update: A new version of ADK 8.1 was released in the last week, see this post before continuing. Run adksetup and accept the .NET 4.5 FrameWork agreement, make sure you've 2.25 GB free space on your C:\ drive before attempting to continue otherwise you may get a strange ASIA failure message (if you do get any failures, check %temp% for the .net installation logs to see why it failed.) clicking on OK will enforce a reboot so if you don't want a reboot at this time, then wait before clicking ok. after the reboot, login and you'll see the specify location screen for the new Windows ADK installation click next through the wizard and select at least the following 3 components User State Migration Tool (USMT) Windows Deployment Tools Windows PreInstallation Environment (Windows PE) and the installation should continue...slowly but surely... click close when done. Tip: Installation of the ADK will produce several logs for the separate components in %temp%\adk if you have any issues with the installation of the ADK open those logs individually in CMTrace to look for any errors during the installation. Step 3. Install/Upgrade to R2 Tip: before starting the install consider stopping any in-progress package distributions (or waiting until they are complete) and stop all normal activities in the console (package/application creation etc). Also reboot the server (s) involved before commencing the upgrade in case any update required a reboot that could interfere with the below process. Always upgrade your Primary servers first, then upgrade any secondaries. Now that we've fixed Windows ADK, browse to the extracted System Center 2012 Configuration Manager R2 files and click on splash.hta to start the wizard and click on Install to start the installer, you will be presented with the before you begin screen, click next and then you'll see the available setup options on the Getting started screen, it should auto detect that you have a primary installed and that you are upgrading the site you can choose whether to input your license key or not, I entered the key it works fine accept the EULA to continue and place checkmarks in the products listed for Prerequisite licenses choose to download the setup prerequisites locally or from a previously downloaded location and then select the server languages that Configuration Manager will support and then the client languages review the settings summary and the Prerequisite check will complete, it may list warnings (which are usually ok to ignore) or errors (failures, which you must fix). Click Begin install to continue (in the screenshot below I've modified a system collection, it's ok, and it's ok to continue) time for a siesta (if you are in Madrid :-)) while it installs, as this will take some time..., click on View Log to view the installation in CMTrace Once the installation of System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager is done you'll see the following, I'd recommend you scroll up and down to verify all listed components are green, close the wizard when you can. and start the new console via the new Start menu link, notice the R2 reference the console appears, congratulations you've installed System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager. Notice the new build number of 7598 in the screenshot below Further Reading What’s New in System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager - http://technet.microsoft.com/library/dn236351.aspx System Requirements Installation Guide Evaluation Guide cheers niall.

I have to ask why you are looking for an ISO for a discontinued product (it's not supported anymore), the supported products are Configuration Manager 2007 and Configuration Manager 2012, I'd recommend you use/lab/learn them instead.

Today at TechEd Europe 2013 in hot hot hot Madrid (it's really hot here I can tell you!), Brad Anderson gave his keynote address to thousands of TechEd Europe delegates and it was a great performance from the seasoned professional that Brad is, naturally there were some new announcements to make such as the immediate availability of preview software for Windows Server 2012 R2, System Center 2012 R2 and SQL Server 2014. Microsoft customers such as Aston Martin explained why they are moving to the cloud with Microsoft and why it's benefiting their enterprises. speaking of Aston Martin you can win one of those awesome cars for yourself by checking out this cool competition from Microsoft. What about the new stuff ? There was plenty to demo and talk about today at Tech Ed Europe including the following, below are the new preview releases !, I'd recommend you get downloading to experience them for yourself ! Note: at this point the R2 Preview download for Configuration Manager is pointing to a SCOM_R2 download, that will be fixed shortly... Windows Server EvaluationsWindows Server 2012 R2 Preview for IT Professionals Windows Server 2012 R2 Preview on Windows Azure Windows Server 2012 R2 Preview for Developers Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials Preview System Center and Windows Intune EvaluationsSystem Center 2012 R2 Preview Datacenter/Private Cloud System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager & Endpoint Protection Preview Windows Intune 30 Day Free Trial SQL Server EvaluationsSQL Server 2014 Community Technology Preview 1 SQL Server 2014 Community Technology Preview 1 on Windows Azure Windows Azure Evaluation Windows Azure Free TrialWindows Azure Pack Windows Azure Pack for those that want all the details here the transcript of what Brad talked about today in Madrid cheers niall

thanks for the post Phil, good info

have you tried restarting IIS ?

did you add your boundary to a boundary group

are you sure they arn't expired or superseded, what have you set your products/classifications to ?

translated from google please understand that this is an English forum, so we write in English here, thanks.

these samples are for Configuration Manager 2007 only.

where are you seeing that message, can you show a screenshot

and what boot image is attached to your task sequence ?

hsve you tried creating this on another computer with a configmgr console ? does this post help ?

that log doesn't contain the error, how about x:\windows\temp\smstslog anything there ? you'll note that this log is not the live one as it doesn't even reference you opening a cmd prompt.

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great stuff, please try and follow the 'flow' of this site with easy explanations of each step, best practice advice included if you can, and of course lots of screenshots cheers niall

ok so why are you stopping the service ? after installing the client are you trying to capture it using the capture media or another way ?

what site server is hosting your DP role (with pxe enabled) ?

and was that after the failure ? are you looking in the right place ? (x: or c: ?) dir /s smsts*.log try that in the root of any drive letter after the failure and before the computer reboots, in other words when you see the message on screen (that you included above) press F8 and grab the logs

that log only shows up to the apply drivers step, you need to find the log(s) AFTER the failure

i deployed it as per this guide so the same as you, if you want to capture new drivers via windows update then go ahead and report back your progress i've not had any issues with drivers since I deployed mine (some months ago)