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I'd like to know why you want to remove the management point and why you don't uninstall the secondary ?

have you seen - using System Center 2012 Configuration Manager - Part 11. Upgrading your hierarchy to Service Pack 1

cool stuff :-)

when you say it stops working, what errors are you seeing ?

I use this method when trying to figure out what driver is required (it should help)

have you checked this ?

does your reply mean that YES you have Uninstalled your secondary site successfully, or NO you could not uninstall the secondary site, which is it ?, i'm having a hard time understanding you...

there's lots of errors like this so, how are you starting the migration ? in windows ? if so are you running it as a Local administrator ?

no there wasn't any technical reason, you can use bootable media however that will most definetly require network access throughout the task sequence whereas standalone won't (apart from the domain join)

to enable HTA support in Configuration Manager 2012 boot images you can check the optional components tab of the boot image and see is HTML (WinPE-HTA) loaded, in addition for Database connections you'll probably want to add Database (WinPE-MDAC)

i didn't say remove the role, i said Uninstall the Secondary site, have you tried that ?

you specify the previously created package as explained in the Guide, and you keep all the other settings the same..

via the ADR, when it runs if any updates are found they are placed in that package

yes, if you create CD media it places the efi files differently, so to boot USB media, use media created for USB only

ok i shutdown my Surface Pro, connected the 8gb kingston data traveller directly to my usb port, pressed and held down volume down on the left of the surface, and then briefly pressed the power button, it booted from my usb key the key is formatted by configmgr and is FAT32

yes all what ? I don't understand your point....

if i get time this evening i'll examine (and test booting from) my usb key, i'll also verify the file format on it for you guys.,..

basically we use the first created ADR to create the Endpoint Protection Definition Updates package, once created, we then disable that ADR (because of the way we created it purely to create a NEW deployment package...) then we create another ADR practically matching the first except instead of creating a new package we point it to the package created in the first (now disabled) ADR. does that help ?

how big are the USB key's you guys are using, I tested with an 8gb key.

what do you mean 'this is for all child sites' ? secondaries don't have child sites...

are you using computer association to import the server 2012 computers also ?

that won't work, use Fat32 as the format type otherwise the Surface will ignore it.

I haven't tried using an ADR to download these updates as they are targetted for UNC shares so getting the updates via Configuration Manager is not part of this deal, we already know that getting updates via ADR's works fine, UNC based updates are a special case scenario the method of installing updates via a UNC share is (for example) to help install updates on servers that don't have an internet connection, so in that respect you could say that yes they are not part of normal Configuration Manager updates, and that is why you should use a script to automate the frequency and download of these updates (for UNC shares) cheers niall

you already opened another post about this, it is by design, have you tried uninstalling the secondary site ?

thanks are you trying to join a primary site to a CAS ?