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well what type of patching are you interested in ? just patching adobes updates or microsoft updates ?

well i'll give you some ideas hopefully or maybe make you more confused hehe if you are familiar with the way you normally advertise applications in SCCM then think of SUP kind of the same way, * a deployment management task is the equivalent of an Advertisement * a deployment package is the equivalent of a package * a software update within a deployment package is similar to a program within a package so... what does that tell us, well it kind of reminds us that advertisements are generally one time wonders you can re-use the deployment package many times in your SUP and that's what I do, every month I add new updates and remove superseded or expired updates from the package, in addition the same thing is done to any deployment management task currently pointing at that package, lastly you create a new deployment management task (advertisement) for the new udpdates.... I will be doing a new post soon covering the use of Update Lists, watch this space...

when you make a change however small to a Task Sequence then there can be a time delay between the client picking it up, sometimes its fast as in immediate but sometimes it can take a while to recognise the change... what I sometimes do when testing 'steps' in a task sequence is to change a letter or letters in the task sequence advertisement so that it shows up in RAP as for example 'xp to 7 with hardlinking TEST#2' then I press F5 in the RAP console on the client, when i see that the change has taken place by visually seeing the new ts in the rap, i then let it go through, if you don't understand my explanation i will try and do a small video showing same

great stuff and if we wanted to have two reports for counting IE6 and IE8 ?

uninstall it, reboot, delete the d:\remoteinstall folder, add wds, reboot does it work then ?

try uninstalling wds service, reboot, reinstall it

i have it, now all i need is time, but i'll try and get something out soon.

well is SQL going to be on the same box ? are you planning on doing OSD, any other features planned ? more info needed...

do you have an MSDN or Technet subscription, if so download the ISO version of Windows 7 Enterprise and burn that directly to a DVD, or there's even a 90 day trial download here http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/cc442495.aspx cheers niall.

please get the terms right, it's MDT not WDT ok... to deploy or capture an os you will need Windows Deployment Services, this is a basic add on for Server 2003 sp2 and upwards and it replaced the aging Remote Installation Services ability of Windows Server 2000 and 2003. With WDS you could deploy captured images with little or no user interaction, the images would be customised before being captured, MDT 2010 is a whole different beast and it allows you (in conjunction with WDS) to deploy operating systems with applications, drivers, software updates and more with minimal or lots of user interaction depending on your needs. it is free. SCCM which does all of this and more can do ZTI (zero touch), if you want to start simple, start with WDS, if you want to progress then use WDS with MDT 2010, if you want to really get with the program then look at SCCM 2007 sp2 in conjunction with MDT 2010 integration. cheers niall

does this help ? and I quote Jason here directly also, you didn't say what you are deploying, is it Enterprise or another version cheers niall

there are multiple ways of doing it, I cover WDS in server 2008 right here you can use MDT 2010 in conjunction with WDS in server 2008 but you'll need to get familiar with Windows SIM to customise your unattend.xml files, windows sim is covered here and setting up MDT is as easy as intsalling it and following the guides, cheers niall

dont install the Eval obtain the full SP2 version from MSDN or Technet or your Microsoft TAM, the guides on this site apply to both sp1 and sp2, what are you trying to do exactly ?

are you running the installation as a local administrator

sounds interesting go for it !

welcome to the site !

thanks for the kind words as regards the wds service, did it ever start ? was it ever working ? what errors do you see in event viewer in relation to it not starting ? have you tried rebooting the server ?

can you deploy a test package to the clients (like the firefox application example) ? if that works at least we know you have communication... is the firewall enabled on the clients ? what do the logs on your CLIENT tell you ? has the deadline for the software update been set? cheers niall

The kind folks at Microsoft have provided the following four new Guides for System Center Configuration Manager 2007, links below System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Deployment Guide This guidance provides information on how to design and deploy a Configuration Manager infrastructure within a healthcare organization. It allows the healthcare organization to be confident that the Configuration Manager infrastructure being designed and deployed is using current best practice. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=8b635615-b368-4e98-a4b3-d779611eced4 System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Operating System Deployment Guide This guidance helps healthcare organizations when implementing and using the operating system deployment feature of Configuration Manager. This guidance provides the information required to quickly become familiar with the operating system deployment feature and understand the appropriate decisions that need to be made in order to deploy and use the solution. It also provides step-by-step guidance showing how to install and configure the required components, and also how to use the most common features. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=defbf5ab-7d60-402b-a58e-5cccc4932a12 System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Software Distribution Guide This guidance provides the information required to quickly become familiar with the software distribution feature and understand the appropriate decisions that need to be made in order to deploy and use the solution. It also provides step-by-step guidance showing how to create the objects required within Configuration Manager to perform the software distribution. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=0a4a62eb-4335-4847-b22f-baeb915f3e24 System Center Configuration Manager Software Update Management Guide This guidance provides the information required to quickly become familiar with the software update feature, and understand the appropriate decisions that need to be made in order to deploy and use the solution. It also provides step-by-step guidance showing how to install and configure the required components, and how to use the most common features. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=27c44801-0d99-48a1-b371-56e27099c5d2 and if the above isn't enough for you, there's always the SCCM Guides right here on windows-noob.com cheers niall

try my guide please and then see what result you get ok ?

yes, you could use Collection variables or Computer Variables to define any variable set in the task sequence, and collection variables have the advantage of hiding the password value entered, I'll raise that in another post if I have time.

from the last log < so........ have you tried this ? http://www.windows-noob.com/forums/index.php?/topic/1543-how-can-i-capture-windows-7/

cleaning up an old post here's how to Capture Windows 7 http://www.windows-noob.com/forums/index.php?/topic/1543-how-can-i-capture-windows-7/ cheers niall

"With the latest releases of Opera, Google Chrome and Firefox continuing to push the boundaries of the web, the once-dominant Internet Explorer is looking less and less relevant every day. But we should expect Microsoft to go on the offensive at its upcoming MIX 2010 developer conference in Las Vegas, where, it has been speculated, the company will demonstrate the first beta builds of Internet Explorer 9 and possibly offer a preview release of the browser to developers. Several clues point to the possibility that the next version of IE will include broad support for HTML5 elements, vector graphics and emerging CSS standards. If Microsoft plays its cards right in Vegas, IE 9 could be the release that helps IE get its groove back in the web browser game."

During the Microsoft TechEd EMEA 2009 event in Berlin the first announcement was made that the ConfigMgr product team is working on a new solution accelerator named; The Configuration Manager dashboard. Last week the product team made the announcement that the first beta of this new dashboard is publicly available. What is a dashboard? A dashboard is basically a webpage containing multiple reports with graphs. This enables ConfigMgr administrators to have multiple information in reports on a single page. Requirements To run the dashboard there are several requirements to be aware of. First of all you need of course a Configuration Manager site running R2 or with Service Pack 2. read the rest on Jannes Alink's blog here