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have you added any computer to the collection that you've advertised the Capture ts to ?

what doesnt happen, is it optional or mandatory, if its optional you'll need to start it yourself, manually

just make sure it's not added to any collection where software updates or software distribution are targetted. cheers niall

welcome to the club, nice to have you back !

Gather gathers info, see below from the Print Ready Documentation, so it will Gather a value for %AssetTag% from the computers bios, next the task sequence above, that value is assigned in the Set Task sequence variable step, and then this is then used by the Configure command (listed below) or during the Setup Windows and ConfigMgr step if you bring up a command prompt (F8) and browse the c:\windows\panther\unattend\unattend.xml file you can see it gets changed during these steps to the values you selected Gather Configure

Microsoft presented the results for its second quarter of the 2010 fiscal year yesterday, which ended on December 29 2009. As it turns out, thanks to sales of Windows 7, Microsoft experienced a record quarter, which is especially welcome after the previous two lacklustre ones. It sold 60 million Windows 7 licenses during this record quarter. Since I have no clue about these figures, I'll just copy them verbatim so I won't make any mistakes. Microsoft Corp. today announced record revenue of $19.02 billion for the second quarter ended Dec. 31, 2009, a 14% increase from the same period of the prior year. Operating income, net income and diluted earnings per share for the quarter were $8.51 billion, $6.66 billion and $0.74 per share, which represented increases of 43%, 60% and 57%, respectively, when compared with the prior year period. Windows 7 played a major, major role in the revenue jump. "Exceptional demand for Windows 7 led to the positive top-line growth for the company," says Peter Klein, chief financial officer at Microsoft, "Our continuing commitment to managing costs allowed us to drive earnings performance ahead of the revenue growth." Windows 7 has seen tremendous sales, with more than 60 million Windows 7 licenses leaving Redmond during the second quarter, making it the fastest selling operating system in history according to Microsoft. "This is a record quarter for Windows units," says Kevin Turner, chief operating officer at Microsoft, "We are thrilled by the consumer reception to Windows 7 and by business enthusiasm to adopt Windows 7." via > http://www.osnews.com/story/22808/Microsoft_Windows_7_Fastest_Selling_OS_in_History

not unless you are specifically using multicast, have you read somewhere where is says different ?

i'll test it in my lab, what settings were you playing with that it was ignoring ?

i'd leave it as unattend.xml but are you creating it in windows sim or ? what is in this package > LA20002A

the sp2 upgrade renders any custom boot images obsolete amongst other things, did you check your task sequences to see if they used a custom boot image ?

no, are you using Multicast ?

generate and possibly edit the following query and you should be good to go select SMS_R_SYSTEM.ResourceID,SMS_R_SYSTEM.ResourceType,SMS_R_SYSTEM.Name,SMS_R_SYSTEM.SMSUniqueIdentifier,SMS_R_SYSTEM.ResourceDomainORWorkgroup,SMS_R_SYSTEM.Client from SMS_R_System inner join SMS_G_System_ADD_REMOVE_PROGRAMS on SMS_G_System_ADD_REMOVE_PROGRAMS.ResourceID = SMS_R_System.ResourceId where SMS_G_System_ADD_REMOVE_PROGRAMS.DisplayName = "Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2003" or SMS_G_System_ADD_REMOVE_PROGRAMS.DisplayName = "Microsoft Office Enterprise 2003" or SMS_G_System_ADD_REMOVE_PROGRAMS.DisplayName = "Microsoft Office Standard 2003"

as of today, windows-noob.com is on Twitter officially, i've moved the test twitter posts from my twitter account (ncbrady) to it's own dedicated account, please do me and windows-noob.com a favor and follow windowsnoob on twitter all new topics from the RSS feed called todays topics, will be posted there every 15 minutes or so thanks ! cheers niall http://twitter.com/windowsnoob

you'll need to download and install mdt 2010 and then do the mdt integration with sccm, it'll become clearer once you install it

that helps, best way to figure it out is via google and trial and error as the official documentation doesn't seem to always co-relate to real experience oh and after re-reading your original post, you can do alot of those things via Group Policy, cheers niall

well i'm not 100% sure, read this and i quote from the technet link in my testing it doesn't autologin, hence the registry hack feel free to find out how to get it to work though i'm as interested as you in this cheers niall

the standard build and capture task sequence uses registry 'hooks' to do its hidden magic (auto login and all that), if you can find a way of accessing them to get around this workaround then please share cheers niall

using windows SIM you can customise your unattend.xml file to do most of what you want above in your list read this guide for some pointers then when you have things customised, you'll end up with an unattend.xml file, create a package of that file and add it in the Apply Operating System step in the task sequence, select the Use an unattended or sysprep answer file for a custom installation option

as Chiners_68 says you need to enable command line support to find out how to do that, take a look at this list of SCCM guides I have put together, scroll down to troubleshooting.

yeah reinstall the SMP, easy to do. also before doing so, browse the smp store folder locally on the server, anything in it ???

the question is, how are you deploying windows 7 currently, are you using the install.wim file from the windows 7 DVD or are you installing windows 7 by using an Install Operating System source... *pointing it to the entire content of the dvd source...*

most likely its missing network drivers in your boot.wim file the only way to be sure is to read the SMSTS.log file, can you post it here please ?

having the client installed is one thing, it's the client agents that matter, they are the enablers: the below info is taken from Brian S Tuckers blog Below is a list of agents, some new and some old which are configurable in SCCM 2007 Beta. I’ll guess that many of these will not change between this version and the final, but wanted to give a heads up on the agents that are configurable. The only thing I’m still a bit confused on is that the first 3 agents are combined into the new Device Client Agent. I’m not sure if the first 3 are going to only be used for SMS 2003 clients and then Device Client Agent only for SCCM clients. I can see that being the configuration, but don’t see it in the documentation so far. More to come on that as I figure it out. Hardware Inventory Client Agent – Once enabled, determines what schedule to perform an inventory of hardware. Includes both hardware and installed software inventory. Default = 7 days Software Inventory Client Agent – Once enabled, inventories all .exe files on a SCCM client computer. Can be configured for alternate file extensions. However, be aware that by adding other file extensions, the SCCM SQL database will increase in size. Advertised Programs Client Agent – Once enabled, tells the SCCM client how often to poll the SCCM server for policy. Agent also allows for visual and or audio notifications. Computer Client Agent (New) – Allows configuration of the Network Access Account which grants access to advertised packages and configures the polling of the client for policy. Allows for custom notification text for Organization Name, Software Updates, Software Distribution and Operating System deployments. Allows for hour and minute mandatory reminders for software distribution. BITS enabled throttling from the SCCM client to the SCCM site server. Desired Configuration Management Client Agent (New) – Specifies that clients will evaluate their compliance with any configuration baseline that is assigned to that system. Also, this agent allows for the schedule of when to check for baseline compliance. When enabled, a new tab in the Systems Management application in the Control Panel will list the baselines. Device Client Agent (New) – Determines the poll interval between the client and the site server for new configuration and software. Agent also allows you to enable software and hardware inventory as well as Software distribution. File collection allows for inventory of specific file extensions similar to Software Inventory above. Remote Tools Client Agent - Enables remote tools to be used with SCCM clients. Allows for configuration of who can use remote tools and notifications on the client systems. Note: As with SMS 2003, remote assistance is the preferred method of connecting to a workstation running Windows 2000 Professional or above. Network Access Protection Client Agent (New) – When enabled, NAP will be applied to the client. SCCM allows you to configure security update policies for systems that are not properly patched. When not properly patched to the baseline, the system will be denied access to network resources. The system will then apply updates and be granted access to the network resource. Although the SCCM client will check for compliance every time the system access the network, policy is only updated once a day by default and can be configured on the Evaluation tab. Software Metering Client Agent – When enabled, will record use of specific applications such as Winword.exe (Word). The default schedule for sending client activity is 7 days. By default, 20 applications are monitored in Computer Management / Software Metering. Software Updates Client Agent (New)- When enabled, allows for software updates on the client and the schedule of how often the client initiate a software update compliance assessment (Default = 1 week). Allows the option to enforce all mandatory deployments as an override to individual advertisements. Deployment Re-Evaluation allows a custom schedule for previously deployed updates that are missing and still required. Software Update Client Agent Let me know if you have questions. Rather than adding pictures for everything, I only added ones that were key points of interest.

if its not happening in the lab and is happening in production then you need to find out what could be causing it, usually the common suspects are group policies or advertisements that you are not aware of, so have you checked both ? can you zip up the entire ccm/logs folder on a client with the problem and post them here ?

thanks ! have you checked if antivirus software on the dp is causing a problem ?