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so your problem is you cannot install the SCCM client on any clients ? start of by checking the system status component logs on your sccm server, do any of them have any messages that appear to be interesting ? have you tried disabling the firewall on the vista client to see if that helps, did you configure a client push account ?

post the code of the old tool here and we'll update it for you if we can

Bloomberg is adding fuel to the rumor fires claiming that Microsoft may show off the tablet version of Windows 8 next week at the AllThingsD conference. If and when that happens, here’s what to watch for. Steven Sinofsky, the President of Microsoft’s Windows client division, is slated to take the stage during the three-day confab, which kicks off on May 29. Ever since Sinofsky’s appearance at the show was confirmed earlier this week, there’s been talk that he’d show off an updated version of Windows 8 there. In spite of Microsoft’s vague claims about the accuracy of recent Windows 8 information that has leaked and been announced (by both Microsoft partners and Microsoft’s own CEO), it is widely believed that there will be different user interfaces on different versions of the operating system. The version tailored to run on ARM-based tablets is expected to sport a touch-centric user interface, which has been known both as MoSH (modern shell) and the “Immersive” user interface. As WithinWindows’ Rafael Rivera noted in April, the immersive UI seems to be “a Windows Phone-inspired, Metro-like, tiles-based user interface as an alternative to the more mainstream Aero and Aero Lite (formerly Aero Basic) UIs.” I’ve also discussed the significance of the “immersive” concept. The immersive UI is expected to be the primary (if not sole) interface for Windows 8 tablets and slates. The Aero interface is expected to be more of a classic Windows Shell and will be the UI for Windows 8 desktops and non-touch-centric Windows PCs. With Sinofsky being Sinofsky, I’m doubtful that we’ll hear him refer to anything as “Windows 8″ next week at the AllThingsD show. (He prefers to call the next version of Windows “Windows Next.”) I’m also highly doubtful he’ll let anyone see a build number or anything that indicates how far along Microsoft is with the development of Windows 8. (I’m hearing Microsoft is fairly well along with Milestone 3, and that June 2011 may mark the end-of-development for that internal milestone build.) If Sinofsky decides to show Windows 8 next week — and don’t let anyone kid you, it’s his decision as to whether he does or not — he’ll do so to show the naysayers that Microsoft isn’t totally clueless about slates/tablets. I’ve heard Microsoft may share more details about Windows 8/Windows Next at the company’s upcoming Worldwide Partner Conference in mid-July in Los Angeles. That may seem like a strange venue, but Microsoft’s resellers are its salesforce. And the keynote line-up for the WPC event includes a disproportionate number of Microsoft OEM (original equipment manufacturer) execs. The WPC is the place Microsoft often shares its roadmaps with its partners and highlights new PCs and devices that it wants them to go out and sell. The real launch pad for Windows 8 remains the company’s mid-September developers conference, which may or may not ultimately be named as the Windows Developer Conference (WDC). Microsoft is widely believed to be planning to deliver to testers a first preview or beta of Windows 8 in conjunction with that conference. Hey, maybe we’ll even hear about theJupiter app model/platform and Visual Studio 2012 at that time. The upcoming devcon is slated for September 13 to 16 in Anaheim, Calif. While DigiTimes reported earlier this week that Microsoft and its partners are planning to get Windows 8 on ARM out before the end of calendar 2011, I’m still hearing and believing that Microsoft isn’t going to deliver certain versions of Windows 8 ahead of others. My contacts continue to believe that Microsoft will get the next version of Windows out in 2012, just like Ballmer said this week (in spite of a weak attempt to change the meaning of his original statements). via > http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/report-microsoft-to-show-tablet-version-of-windows-8-next-week/9559?tag=content;feature-roto

where in your task sequence are you attempting to do this, if it's Install Updates Offline is must be before the setup windows and configmgr step, is it ? in addition you must specify a windows updates pacakge in that step, are you ? lastly just before the Install Updates Offline step you must have a Use Toolkit Package (mdt 2010u1-MDTFiles) step. eg.... ... Use Toolkit Package Install Software Updates Offline Setup Windows and configmgr ... I've just tested it here with windows 7x86 works fine

We have released System Center Updates Publisher 2011 to the web today. This release was primarily driven by customer feedback over the past year. It all started last year at MMS (2010) where we got a lot of great feedback regarding the existing product. Out of that feedback a plan was created to greatly improve the product for both customers and partners. Updates Publisher 2011 is packed full of new features and additions with just a few of them listed below. New in System Center Updates Publisher 2011 •Simpler setup with no database installation •An improved user interface that allows better control of managing software updates •Improved applicability rule authoring experience •Improved performance when importing and managing software updates •The ability to create software update bundles •The ability to define prerequisite and superseded updates as part of a software update definition •A new “Automatic” publication type with which Updates Publisher 2011 can query Configuration Manager to determine whether the selected software updates should be published with full content or only metadata •A new Software Update Cleanup Wizard that you can use to expire software updates that exist on the update server, but are not in the Updates Publisher 2011 repository To download and learn more about SCUP from TechCenter visit here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/systemcenter/bb741049.aspx via > http://blogs.technet.com/b/systemcenter/archive/2011/05/24/system-center-updates-publisher-2011.aspx

I don't but I don't see why you can't convert this for MDT only, i'm sure it's doable, have you tried ?

you are in luck, it's right here in the SCCM 2007 Guides, hint look in the Troubleshooting and other section http://www.windows-noob.com/forums/index.php?/topic/1064-sccm-2007-guides/

Step 3. Enable Active Directory Forest Discovery In the console click on Discovery Methods. Double click on Active Directory Forest Discovery, note that this is a new feature in SCCM 2012. Select the following options Enable Active Directory Forest Discovery Automatically create Active Directory site boundaries when they are discovered and click ok. The discovery will be run every week by default, but we want to trigger it now, so click on Run Full Discovery now in the ribbon. answer Yes when prompted Click on Boundaries and click on the refresh icon to the right (refresh "boundaries"), after some moments the discovery has run and our Active Directory Site Boundary is listed under our previously created Boundary. This discovery will create a new boundary for each Active Directory site that is discovered in the site servers forest. Remember that boundaries in SCCM 2012 do nothing unless added to a Boundary Group. Right click our newly discovered Active Directory site (windows-noob-AD-site) and choose add selected items to existing Boundary Groups place a checkmark in P01 Clients and click OK. our newly discovered AD site is now added to an existing Boundary Group

Step 2. Create an Active Directory Site Complete this task on your Active Directory computer as Domain Admin. Start up Active Directory sites and Services and click on Sites, the default site name of Default-First-Site-Name is listed. We will create a custom AD site which is unique from other AD sites in our heirarchy. Right click on sites and choose New Site, when the New Sites wizard appears give it a name windows-noob-AD-site, select the DEFAULTIPSITELINK and click ok. Note the message after creating the new AD Site Right Click on Subnets, choose New Subnet In the prefix box type 192.168.3.0/24 and select the windows-noob-AD-site We have now assigned the 192.168.3.0/24 subnet to our newly created site, now lets move our Domain Controller (AD1) to the new AD site. expand Default-First-Site-Name until you see AD1 listed. Right click on AD1 and choose Move when prompted where to move the server, select the windows-noob-AD-site and click ok. We have now moved our DC out of the Default AD site and to our custom AD site.

In Part 1. of this series we Installed vNext, now we will start to configure it. Step 1. Creating Boundaries and Boundary Groups Perform the following on the vNext server as SMSadmin Click on the Administration workspace In the navigation pane expand Site Hierarchy and then Boundaries, we havn't created any yet so nothing will appear, click on Create Boundary in the ribbon on top. In the Create Boundary dialogue box, enter the following details, for Type box, choose IP address range from the drop down menu, and input 192.168.3.10 for the starting address and 192.168.3.100 for the ending address. Click ok and your newly created boundary should appear. Boundaries in SCCM 2012 do nothing unless they are assigned to a Boundary Group so click on Boundary Groups, nothing appears as we havn't configured any Boundary Groups yet. In order to assign clients to our site through discovery and for clients to access content from distribution points we need to create a Boundary Group with suitable boundaries. Click on Create Boundary Group in the ribbon. for Name type P01 Clients and click on Add to add our previously created boundary when the Add boundaries dialogue box appears, select our previously created boundary and click ok. Next click the References tab and select Use this boundary group for site assignment. Note: Important, failure to place that checkmark will mean your Management Point won't work properly for this site. Click on Add to Add site systems (distribution points and State Migration Poins) to our Boundary Group, select our vnext server listed and click ok.

it means you need to install R2 (or R3)

did you try this ? Using Adsiedit Create a container in AD, CN=System called System Management by right clicking on CN=System and choose New Object, scroll down to container from the list, click next, give it a value of System Management.

did you install the BITS feature ? did you try rebooting the server ? where are you getting the failure exactly ?

Ok imagine this scenario, you run out of hdd space or get a faster hdd that you are storing your HyperV vm's on, and you decide to copy the vms from hd1 to hd2. When you attach the new hd to your computer and try to start your vm's you get an error like this: Unamed VM could not Initialize clicking on See Details reveals the following To fix it we need to restore the ICACLS that were originally set (but not copied) on the VM's. To do this we first need the VM's GUID. To get it, expand the virtual machine dir where you store your vm's, and locate the VM in question, then expand that dir until you see the Virtual Machines directory, in there you'll see the GUID, copy it (the GUID). Use the following command icacls “<virtualmachinefolder>” /grant “NT VIRTUAL MACHINE\<virtualmachineguid>”:F /T you'll see it output something like this:- and that's it ! all done, repeat the above for each VM This post was completed thanks to help from here cheers niall.

Step 12. Install Configuration Manager 2012 beta2. TIP: you can open C:\ConfigMgrSetup.log with trace64.exe or notepad and review the contents of the file, it will inform you of any issues during installation. Uncompress the EXE by running it, then browse to where you uncompressed it and click on Splash.hta when the wizard appears, click on Install select Install a Configuration Manager Primary Site Server and click next Create a folder on C:\ called SCCM2012_Beta2_Updates and then specify the path to download the updates or point it to another path where you've already got the updates. Tip: If you don't have internet on your SCCM server then you can download the required updates on another computer by doing like so:- Open a command prompt with administrative permissions Navigate to .\Configuration Manager 2012 Install source\smssetup\bin\X64 Run SetupDL.exe target dir (in my example SetupDL.exe D:\CM2012DL The total download size is 192 mb and the total number of files is 14 with SQL Express and .Net Framework 4.0 being the largest files. Thanks to Kent for that tip. click next, the installer will download the updates neeeded when done downloading the updates you'll get prompted to fill in some info about the installation including site code, I chose to install to D:\.. Next we choose that Primary site will be installed as a stanadlone site leave database server as it is enter the SMS Provider location settings as I don't have a PKI infrastructure in place i'll choose HTTP for now for the site system roles select HTTP from the drop down choices for both management point and distribution point roles. click next at the CEIP screen review the summary and click next to start the pre requisite check we have two warnings, the WSUS SDK and Firewall, we'll deal with both later and they are only warnings so click next to continue. Note, if you completed Part 6 above and allowed the Group Policies to update then you won't get the Firewall warnings, I added that part after creating this guide so safe to ignore. click Begin and make sure Trace64 is running in the background so that you can monitor the installation log this does take some time to complete so now's a good time to go get that coffee once the installation is complete, review the log for any errors and restart your vNext server. After restarting the server, start the SCCM admin console and click on About. Congratulations, you've installed System Center Configuration Manager 2012 Beta 2.

Step 10. Download Microsoft SQL Server 2008 and associated files Note:- Do not use SQL 2008 R2 in beta 2 as it's not supported. Download SQL Server 2008 Standard (x86, x64) - DVD (English) from your provider (MSDN or Technet) the one I used was File Name: en_sql_server_2008_standard_x86_x64_dvd_x14-89155.iso Date Published (UTC): 8/5/2008 10:20:32 PM Last Updated (UTC): 2/4/2009 12:22:20 PM SHA1: F868EE641DE36222668A60345FAE57446F88B070 ISO/CRC: 31968C44 You can download the Trial version (180 days) from here. While you are at it download SQL Server 2008 SP1 from here File Name: en_sql_server_2008_sp1_x64.exe Date Published (UTC): 4/9/2009 1:40:10 PM Last Updated (UTC): 9/25/2009 11:10:14 AM SHA1: 1F811D5FFA8A6A4FEBB3BDD8C556F27C8D5D69D3 ISO/CRC: AE4E4D68 Update: Cumulative Update 14 (CU14) is now available and fixes some SQL issues with SCCM 2012 beta 2. You can download it here. Select the following download- SQL Server 2008 All (Global) x64 sp1 SQLServer2008_SP1_CU14_2527187_10_00_2821_x64 2008 10.00.2821.00 264620376 5/9/2011 6:48:46 PM Step 11. Install SQL Server 2008 To Install SQL server follow this guide but please install SQL on D:\Program Files... and when running setup.exe right click and choose Run as Administrator. After you install SQL Server 2008, you must install SP1 and finally install CU14. So install it in this order: SQL Server 2008 >> SQL Server 2008 SP1 >> SQL Server 2008 Cumulative Update 14

what does c:\windows\debug\netsetup.log say about it ?

you can try here How can I capture an image using WDS How can I deploy a captured image using WDS

The rumors were right. Microsoft announced on May 10 that it bought Skype, an Internet communications maker, for $8.5 billion. Instead of trying to mash Skype into an existing Microsoft business division, the company has decided to create a new, separate Skype business division, with Skype CEO Tony Bates as the newly minted President. Bates will report directly to Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. In its press release announcing the deal, Microsoft played up the potential synergies between Skype and its own communications offerings, including its Lync VOIP platform, Outlook mail, Messenger instant-messaging, Hotmail Web mail and Xbox LIVE gaming service. “Skype will support Microsoft devices like Xbox and Kinect, Windows Phone and a wide array of Windows devices, and Microsoft will connect Skype users with Lync, Outlook, Xbox Live and other communities. Microsoft will continue to invest in and support Skype clients on non-Microsoft platforms,” said the release. Microsoft offered no timetable or further details as to when and how it will make Skype available as part of any of its existing product offerings. According to earlier reports, Microsoft was bidding against Google and Facebook for Skype. As my colleague Larry Dignan noted, the $8.5 billion Skype purchase price made for one expensive game of keepaway. Microsoft and Skype are holding a press conference (hopefully) outlining more particulars of the deal at 11 a.m. ET. There will be a live Webcast. via zdnet > http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsoft-buys-skype-for-85-billion-creates-new-business-division/9406

well lets start at the beginning, is your SCCM component status all looking ok ? any errors in the logs there ? have you tried disabling firewalls just as a test

agreed, but i havnt found a way yet, you could just use your favorite search engine and point it to here

Microsoft plans to have a quiet Patch Tuesday this month: Just two bulletins covering security vulnerabilities in the Windows operating system and Office productivity suite. According to an advance notice from Redmond, the Windows update will be rated “critical” because of the risk of remote code execution attacks. This patch only affects Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2. The Microsoft Office patch will carry an “important” rating and will also cover flaws that can be exploited in remote code execution attacks. The patches are expected to be released on May 10, 2011 at 1:00 PM Eastern. Microsoft also announced plans to modify its Exploitability Index to provide more details for Windows users running the newest software versions. The Exploitability Index assesses the likelihood of functional exploit code being developed for a particular vulnerability. By providing the index information month over month, we’re helping customers prioritize the security updates that matter to them. The Exploitability Index will continue to provide an aggregate exploitability rating across all affected products, and the improvements made to Exploitability Index will now offer additional information to help customers prioritize bulletins, specifically for the most recent platforms, e.g. Windows 7 Service Pack 1 and Office 2010. The changes effectively means that Microsoft will split out the Exploitability Index into a rating for the most recent version of the software, and an aggregate rating for all older versions. via Zdnet > http://www.zdnet.com/blog/security/ms-patch-tuesday-heads-up-critical-windows-update-on-deck/8622?tag=mantle_skin;content

Microsoft has revealed some additional Windows Phone 7.5 features over the weekend. Ryan and Travis Lowdermilk from the Windows Phone Dev Podcast revealed some new features from “Mango” on Sunday. Mango, known to be Windows Phone 7.5, will include Bing Audio/Video, SMS dictation, podcast support and turn-by-turn navigation. Paul Thurrott has detailed all the new features after listening to the podcast. Bing Audio/Vision Bing Audio will allow Windows Phone 7.5 owners to search for music using Bing. The feature is similar to Shazam and will allow users to identify songs by holding their phones up to speakers playing music. Bing Vision will be a search service using the phones camera. Bing Vision will support barcodes, Microsoft Tags, QR codes, Books, CDs, DVDs and text using OCR. Users will utilize the service by scanning products and finding competitive prices locally and online. via > http://www.winrumors.com/new-windows-phone-7-5-features-revealed/?utm_source=windows-noob.com

pls post your smsts.log from a failed build and capture

Perform the following on the vNext server as SMSadmin Step 7. Install .NET 3.5.1 and WCF Activation In Server Manager select Features, Add Features, Select .NET Framework 3.5.1, also select WCF Activation and when prompted answer Add Required Role Services click next and next again, and verify the following IIS components are installed in addition to the ones preselected by the wizard. Common HTTP Features Static Content Default Document Directory Browsing HTTP Errors HTTP Redirection Application Development ASP.NET .NET Extensibility ASP ISAPI Extensions ISAPI Filters Health and Diagnostics HTTP logging Logging tools Request Monitor Tracing Security Basic Authentication Windows Authentication URL Authorization Request Filtering IP and Domain Restrictions Performance Static Content Compression Management Tools IIS Management Console IIS Management Scripts and Tools Management Service IIS 6 Management Compatibilty IIS 6 Metabase Compatibility IIS 6 WMI Compatibility IIS 6 Scripting Tools IIS 6 Management Console and yes to any additional prompts, then Click Next and Install and close when done. Step 8. Download and install .NET 4 Download .NET 4 from here (webinstall) or here (Standalone). Double click the file. Accept the License terms and click Install After a while it will complete, Click Finish when done restart when prompted Step 9. Add BITS and Remote Differential Compression Finally, in Server Manager click on Add Features, place a selection mark in BITS and RDC.