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Thanks for your help Just to conform ran a test run, all appears successful now. only required drivers installed, no ATI or nVidia stuff installed as I feared either. I'm going to leave the WMI model query as is - just the number ie "%8300%" - I've found from getting the model on different HPs the order of words changes, ie: 8300 - HP Compaq Elite 8300 SFF 8200 - HP Compaq 8200 Elite PC 8000 - HP Compaq 8000 Elite SFF PC It appears would be easier if it works (and it appears to without issue) to just stick with the model number itself, not the full model name to avoid issues in future when the next model changes the name order yet again. Sound like a plan or you think it is best to stick with the full name? We will only have 6 different driver packages in place for our environment.

Hi Rocket Man It still shouldn't error on the query itself should it? If the model I've given is wrong shouldn't it just fail on each query and continue? But in my case the Task Sequence fails and reports an error on the first of two queries. I did originally test by using what a "WMIC computersystem get model" reported back within "%%", ie "%HP Compaq Elite 8300 SFF%" but received the same errors, only fell back to what I have above to test incase it was what it was querying. Just to test then I've set it to skip on error and ran a test - it errored on each query. It's as if the query itself (not what's being queried) is failing. EDIT - FML I should of figured this out... The quotes in the query, because copied from a web site are the MS Word style wrap around quotes... Not the progrematic non error causing type... Arghhh.

I've followed guides such as below to setup model specific driver package tasks in my deployment task sequence. http://systemmanagement.ro/blog/2009/05/22/install-drivers-by-computer-model-using-wmi-query/ http://myitforum.com/myitforumwp/2011/10/17/sccm-2007-osd-troubleshooting-task-sequence-wmi-queries-on-computer-models-returning-false-results/ Problem is say I setup 2 models, in this case HP Probook 6550b and HP Compaq Elite 8300 SFF. Each filtering is as below. SELECT * FROM Win32_ComputerSystem WHERE Model LIKE “%6550b%” SELECT * FROM Win32_ComputerSystem WHERE Model LIKE “%8300%” If I image a HP Compaq Elite 8300 SFF the task fails on the HP ProBook 6550b step (which is the first in the list of two currently), error below. The task sequence execution engine failed evaluating the condition for the action (HP ProBook 6550b) in the group (Apply Driver Packages). Error code 4119. I don't understand why it's giving an error - isn't the point of the WMI filtering for it to go "ok, I got a 0 result on that query, onto the next step"? There is the option for "Continue on error" but no guides or information on this I have found describe having to enable this option. Another question I have is - I'm applying the driver packages provided by HP - will this install only the required drivers from the package required by the PC or will it apply possibly wrong or unrequired drivers. The package contains drivers for say optional video cards that our models don't have - is the task going to install those drivers and say the nVidia control panel and such? Do I have to manually pick out the drivers that are unrequired prior to distributing the package to our DPs?

Does it make much difference? I'm just wondering in terms of tracking the install, say one of the 4 MSIs doesn't install, a batch won't tell me that. It seems to be it would use the same amount of bandwidth during installation either way, but I'm not too sure - either way DPs are all local for each PC. I am new to this Rocket Man so don't take my question the wrong way - I just through half the point of software distribution via SCCM was tracking success of installations - otherwise I'd just stick with GPO LOL I'll see how this way goes - it works testing so I'm going to test a couple of live PCs tomorrow - and report back. If I have issues I will go with your recommendation.

Peter33 - Will this matter? Thanks for letting me know I'd missed it but would it affect the installation? Rocket Man - Will using the Start /Wait commands in the program command lines achieve the same? Arghh I'm an idiot... When advertising you have to select which program to advertise... so I had to create 4 advertisements, added the /q switch as well. Deployed fine! iTunes did some quick installation or setup on first run, but then no issues.

I'm attempting to deploy iTunes via SCCM. I've extracted the MSIs and created transforms and updated the MSI's for english. I've created the package with 4 programs, one for each MSI required (I think are required, I've skipped AppleSoftwareUpdate for now while testing incase it isn't required). When deploying the package the advertisement logs show only the first program in the package installing (AppleApplicationSupport). The log shows as below: Left for 45 mins now, no update regarding the other 3 programs. The AppleApplication is the only program without a Transform specified. The command for each program is below: msiexec /i AppleApplicationSupport.msi msiexec /i AppleMobileDeviceSupport.msi TRANFORMS=AppleMobileDeviceSupport.mst msiexec /i Bonjour.msi TRANFORMS=Bonjour.mst msiexec /i iTunes.msi TRANFORMS=iTunes.mst While creating the package I specified as below for location and such: DataSource Source Directory - \\chfte.local\distribution\software\apple\iTunes\11.X\iTunes 11.0.1 (DFS Software Distribution Location, our current GPO Software Deployment point). Enabled - Use a compressed copy of the source directory Data Access Enabled - Access the distribution folder through the common ConfigMgr share I haven't changed any of the requirements for other programs to be installed first or such in the properties of each program. Am I going about this the wrong way or something? What would be the best way to deploy these MSIs and why isn't this way working? Thanks : ).

Right click boundary, select delete, nothing happens. Attempt to create a new boundary (that in the console DOES NOT exist) get: "The specified boundary already exists!". When first attempting to create the boundary occasionally I'll get: "The ConfigMgr Provider reported an error connecting to the ConfigMgr site database server. Verify that the SQL Server is online and that ConfigMgr site server computer account is an administrator on the ConfigMgr site database server." This is attempting to create boundary based on AD Site. Existing are a mix of that and IP subnet, neither type seem to be removable.