TheHasselhoff

Hi! Sorry for the delay in responding. I have tried multiple USB hubs, no effect. It is happening with the Linksys USB3GIG adapters all the time. Every once in a while, it also happens with the Linksys USB300M adapters we have, too. I actually found the chipset (Realtek) drivers from the Realtek website, and this seems to have helped - but with some hardware, the issue still occurs.

Hi everyone! So, I've got a really weird issue, that seems to have just showed up recently in our MDT setup. We image a large variety of Windows tablets, both Windows 7 & 8.1. I've always used a USB hub with a USB NIC (Linksys USB300M, and USB3GIG). It's always worked well - WinPE drivers work great, unit images properly, boots into OS and installs software, joins domain, etc. However, as of last week, we started to notice an issue. During the OSD, it reboots several times during the application installs (as we install several applications during OSD), and also reboots after domain-join. Sometimes after domain-join, and sometimes a few steps before domain-join, the USB NIC is no longer detected in Device Manager. Not like it's there, and the drivers are missing - the device itself is no longer detected. Unplug/replug, switch ports, etc. - no effect. If I put another one in, no effect. If I put in a different model NIC, it then installs it & moves on to finish the OSD. But the only way around it currently, is to wait for the "cannot contact the network share" messge, switch to the other model NIC, and continue. I've looked in the log files, and there is nothing in there about the NIC, besides when it hits the "cannot contact the network share" message. And it just started a week or two ago; but we haven't updated anything in MDT before then, for some time. Does anyone have an idea? Thank you so much!

Hello everyone! Don't know what I'd do with this forum My company is running SCCM 2012 SP1, with MDT integration, for our OSD Task Sequences. Things are working quite well. However, I need to solve a couple of small issues: - As SCCM uses the SYSTEM account to do things, it never logs in as the local Administrator. I'd like it to do this once, at the end of Task Sequence, so that the User folder is created - then log out. (I know I could use a command in the Unattend file, just seeing if something else would be easier.) We need this, as my IT team sometimes copies confidential data to that folder that only IT Admins should access. - On the other hand, when I go look at the Users after OSD, there are several TEMP folders in there; TEMP, then TEMP.domain.000, TEMP.domain.001, etc. It varies, but normally 4 or 5 of them. When looking at the "Manage User Accounts" option in Control Panel, they are not there. Now, I'm not really worried about why the folders are there; I just want them gone. I've tried putting in a Run Command Line to do it (and it works when I manually run it), but it doesn't work when in the Task Sequence (I even changed the credentials to my own, still nothing). If anyone has any ideas, I would be eternally grateful! Thank you! JP

Bump! Thank you!

I tried putting a prestart command in, but apparently this happens after initial setup. Not sure where to put a command in, to sleep the initialization part?

I put the x64 and x86 unknown computers in the collection. Beginning to think it has something to do with getting an IP. When I bring up F8, I don't get an IP until after the system wants to reboot (our network administrators have something set on all switches, that now makes computers take 5 seconds or so to get an IP). So, by the time the IP is given out, the script has already errored out. Once I have an IP, I can ping the MP FQDN without issue. Thing is, this wasn't an issue until we rebooted our DP

Hello all - hoping someone can help! We have been getting SCCM2012 (with MDT) set up for a few months now, and all has been well. I have been trying to finish up the OSD portion now. It was working well, except for some driver issues. I ended up having to remove all of the drivers in the system for a clean start, and we also rebooted our DP. I started adding drivers back in, and all seemed well again. However, our USB boot drives no longer work. (We do not use PXE. But our USB drives have always worked well.) When it boots up, it sits at the cmd window for cscript.exe, and never passes it. (If I do that trick from Part 18 of removing that, so that it doesn't ask for ComputerName, then it just reboots.) I can F8 and see that I have a network connection. I have completely remade the MDT packages, and the boot image/USB-drives. I also wiped out the task sequences and made a new one, remade my boundary groups & device collections, etc. No effect. We rebooted all of the servers involved, no effect. I have attached the smsts.log, for reference. My server team is at a loss, and so am I. Any help would be INCREDIBLY appreciated! Thank you! JP smsts.log

Hello all, got another question for you! One of the pesky manual steps I currently need to take, after imaging a new computer, is to add it to my proper device collection. Is there any way to have the OSD automatically add the new computer to a specific collection, as part of the OSD? Thank you!

Bump, for the first question! Thank you!

Hello all! Got a question for you. I tried searching everywhere, but to no avail - maybe I'm using the wrong terminology I have been using MDT2012 for a while now, to deploy OSD Task Sequences, and it works great. We have several different images, and variations on each of them. There's about 15 difference sequences. I was able to organize them in MDT2012, into a folder structure - so that the first window that pops up is clean, organized, streamlined, etc. However, I am now trying to migrate to SCCM2012 w/ MDT2012 integrated. Working well so far, except I don't seem to know how to organize the various task sequences into folders. Even if they are organized in the Console - when the system boots up from WindowsPE, and lists the TSs, they are just there, in an alphabetical list. (No folders, etc.) Is there any way to do this? Or, maybe we just need to live with it? Thank you so much! JP

Hello all! Absolutely love this forum, the information is incredible! I have a question that I haven't found the answer to yet (and I haven't tried to jump into it myself yet). My current setup has SCCM2012 SP1 completely configured and working on the network. We also have MDT2012 SP1 fully operational on its own - this is where we have been (until SCCM was working) imaging all of our computers. Our MDT setup uses an SQL database. Basically, all the database stores is: - MAC address - Computer AD name - OU So, MDT looks at the MAC - and if it's in the database, it knows what name and OU to use. It allows my field analysts to simply put in a thumbdrive, boot from it, and walk away until it's done. I've done the SCCM/MDT merge, and all seems well - templates are available, etc. Since there are hundreds of entries in there now - and I'd like to have SCCM use MDT templates for OSD task sequences - can SCCM reference that same SQL database, in the same manner? If not, can I set up a separate SQL database to do this, and perhaps mass-import the data? Thank you very much!

Hi! I will look into the OU script (I am not really using MDT yet, as we have accomplished everything else we need without it so far). Unfortunately, the device number is not related to the serial# (or anything else BIOS-specific). We also do not necessarily use the computers in order. (We also want to be able to use this, in case one of them needs to be reimaged in the future and it cannot boot into Windows.) Thank you!

This will make it easier, but will still require us to type in the names manually. It would be perfect for us, to give SCCM a CSV with the names & MACs, and it do it automatically. (I have to scan the boxes into a spreadsheet with Device#, MAC, and serial# already.) Any ideas? Unfortunately, I am nearly useless in vb scripting

My company currently replaces about 1500 lease-end computers each year. I only have a couple of other people on my team to perform this task. The #1 reason that my team wants to use SCCM is to remove as much of the tedious, "heavy lifting" parts of our requirements as possible. We currently use a thick image, sysprepped and cloned on a HDD duplicator. Each computer boots up, and we have to put a monitor/keyboard/mouse on each one individually - so that we can add to the domain, etc. We then have to manually go into AD and move each one to its proper OU. SCCM seems to have the promise of automating all of that; we set things up in SCCM, then just turn the PCs on and let them do everything for us. I don't want to name the computers in a sequence; each computer has a device number sticker put on it at the factory, so it MUST be named with that device number. My hope was to import a CSV with the computer names & MACs, and have SCCM name them accordingly during domain add. However, it appears that SCCM finds the MAC in the collection; goes ahead and names the customer whatever it wants; then changes the name in the collection, as well. The computers are brand-new, so they will not have the client installed on them.' You mention a variable or a script; this sounds like what I need. However, I have no idea how to do this Basically, I would just like to have a CSV with computername & MAC, and have SCCM use it to name each PC as it is imaged. Thank you!

Hello all, sorry to bump up an old topic, but this is the exact type of solution we need in my company. We are just getting into SCCM, and I have started testing OSDs. Here's what we do: - each quarter, we go through lease-end replacements of the PCs whose leases are up - the new computer gets a device sticker with a 6-digit number on it; for example, it would look like this: W7-###### - we name the computer W7-###### in AD, and manually put it into the correct OU, right now - the numbers are not necessarily in-sequence (and sometimes one of them gets corrupted and needs to be reimaged) - we are given a list of the computer names, and their corresponding MAC addresses, by the manufacturer So, I have been trying to automate the naming process (haven't tried the OU part yet). I would import the computer information, by choosing "import single computer", and inputting the name and MAC. I waited for it to show up, then ran the OSD. Worked perfectly, except it named the computer a random MININT-*******. It actually took the imported computer and renamed it - so the W7-###### is no longer listed in Devices, but the MININT-******* is. Not sure why, and it happens on any test PC in multiple network locations. I have tried prestaging the computer in AD, no effect. I would like to, eventually: - have a CSV with name,MAC,OU - and import the whole list - import into SCCM2012 - have the TS deploy Windows, name the PC properly, and put in the correct OU. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thank you in advance!