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I'm working on enhancing my task sequence to deploy Windows 10 without decrypting the drive. We use McAfee Drive Encryption, and McAfee provides the following documentation: https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=KB79908&actp=null&viewlocale=en_US&showDraft=false&platinum_status=false&locale=en_US https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=PD24855 the relevant part of the documentation is: On completion of the task sequence wizard all mentions to FORMATING and PARTITIONING will need to be removed or disabled, this does not prevent a refresh of the operating system but instead will only allow the OS partition to be wiped and upgraded. Although we will not be formatting the EFI partition the application of a new operating system will overwrite the existing EFI boot programs. To restore McAfee Drive Encryptions EFI boot programs it is required to add the following steps to the task sequence. 18 • Mount EFI Partition This is a command line option provided by Microsoft. MountVol <Free Drive Letter:> /S (e.g. MountVol Y: /S) Now my question is this; during the "Apply Operating System" step, how do I specify the destination of the operating system, as I disabled the "partition" step where I usually specify the OSDisk variable. Do I specify Y:? Thanks

Alt+tab is fine for switching, but the progress dialog is in the way, and without a mouse I can't move it...

VMware VM actually I need to see the cmtrace because I'm having lots of issues that I want to see live, instead of waiting for a build or deploy to finish to see where things are going wrong. (no I'm not going to post the list of issues in this thread, since this thread is about one thing and one thing only )

Having lots of misc issues regarding Windows 10 task sequences, but I'll just take it one at a time: I'm doing a B&C task sequence for Windows 10, and after the OS is loaded and the TS reboots to the installed OS, I have no mouse pointer. Wouldn't be an issue, except I need to move the progress dialog out of the way so I can see my cmtrace window! Any ideas? SCCM 2012 R2 SP1 CU2 Windows 10 build 1511

Question: I'm standing up a new 2012r2 site (DRC) to replace a poorly implemented 2012sp1 site (DRI). I don't want any current clients, or newly imaged machines pointing DRC until we're production-ready. if I publish the Management Points for DRC in DNS, will it cause any problems with the current production infrastructure? What about if I publish DRC to Active Directory? Thanks

Did you ever find a solution?

Years of neglect has resulted in IP subnets not being added and assigned, and some IP subnets being in ADS&S no longer exist

I have been tasked with cleaning up my new employer's AD Sites and Services, and I've run into a philosophical disagreement, and given my lack of experience or training with this specific item, I'm going to ask the community to tell me if I'm right or wrong Do you make a Site in S&S if there's a physical location, but no Domain Controller local to that location, or do you assign the subnets for that location to a Site that has a Domain Controller (and has a direct route)?

In the end Microsoft was unable to figure out what broke in WMI. Everything looked right, and nothing stood out, but we ended up nuking the OS on the SQL box and rebuilding it.

Something I just learned: System Center 2012 Configuration Manager makes a connection in the context of the current user to Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) on the selected site system to retrieve the instance of SQL Server for Reporting Services. The current user must have Read access to WMI on the site system, or the Reporting Services instances cannot be retrieved. Still doesn't make sense, as all user accounts involved are assigned at least read access!

Yes this is very confusing, because none of this should be happening. I don't really have a question, so much as sharing what's going on with the community and seeing if anyone has thoughts on this, or has maybe seen this. But to clarify your questions: SQL 2012 SP2 CU1 (11.0.5532.0) running on Server 2012 R2. SSRS was installed after SQL was. I'm verifying with our SQL admin if the CUs were re-applied after he installed SSRS I'm not trying to use anything other than the computer account. This is the mystifying thing, as the account I'm logged in to the CM Site server as should not matter one bit! The computer account of the Site Server should be doing all the work, including the WMI queries which seem to be the heart of the problem. But something is broken, and the MS guys can't figure it out. Everything *looks* right. Everything *should* be working. If they can't figure it out by the end of tomorrow I'm blowing the whole thing away and reinstalling.

This is a really interesting issue, one which has thus far stumped 3 MS support engineers I've been setting up a shiny new SCCM 2012 R2 environment, and a few weeks ago I set up a Reporting Services Point, tested creating a new custom report, then went back to edit the report I had just made. "You do not have permission to do this" wut? :| poked at it for a bit, then discovered the console was not able to communicate with SSRS. I checked SSRS and it was seemingly functioning fine. Uninstalled the Reporting Services Point, waited, went to reinstall it. The SSRS instance wasn't populating in the drop-down in the setup wizard. :| triple checked everything, searched Google and Bing, checked over what I found via them. Everything *looked* perfect. It should be working. Convinced the SQL admin to reinstall SSRS. That didn't help. Call Microsoft. It has been determined that WMI queries between the SCCM and SQL box are not working UNLESS you are using the SCCM server's computer account OR a domain admin account. The other accounts used are members of the local admin groups, and appear to have all the rights and permissions to conduct the needed queries to detect the SSRS instance, but those queries are rebuffed as access denied.

The problem was the IUSR account didn't have the correct permissions to the C:\Program Files\Microsoft Configuration Manager\CCM\Incoming directory. I wish I knew how this changed/broke

SCCM 2012 SP1 I discovered the other day that a lot of my machines haven't updated their hardware and software inventory for about a month. I'm *guessing* this was caused by the C: drive of the MP filling up with IIS logs, which I found out and cleared up 5 days ago. I'm getting a lot of 3701 and 3703 messages in my SMS_SOFTWARE_INVENTORY_PROCESSOR log. I run full hardware and software inventory cycles on various computers, but they never update in the database (as I can see from the console). Does anybody know what I need to do to fix this?

It hasn't helped. Seriously, one specific model of device is not picking up advertisements. Its not one machine, its one model.

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OS Deployment

The other week I went to add the Powershell module to our Boot Images We encountered an error trying to do that, so we gave up, and built new boot images just to be safe. After doing so, and triple checking everything was exactly as had been previously, we now have one specific model of computer that won't pick up advertisements. We have repeatedly confirmed the computer entry is in the collection, we have removed and re-added the computer and re-added it to the collection, yet it still will not pick up the advertisement. We have done this multiple times with multiple computers of the same model, all with zero success. I give up. Hive-mind, help!

Environment: SCCM 2012 sp1 Problem: Installs of Flash are failing with error 1603 Workaround: User runs http://support.microsoft.com/mats/program_install_and_uninstall/ Desired solution: Running a fixit script via a package on a collection of machines with these failed installs. Has anyone done this before, or knows how? I've been poking at it, but I've not found a clear "Here's how to script fixit" Thanks

I'm trying to add Virtual PC into my image, and I have an application built with a script install. The script is a simple .bat file: wusa.exe "%~dp0Windows6.1-KB958559-x64-RefreshPkg.msu" /quiet /norestart /log:"C:\VirtualPCInstall.log" I have it set to download local and install However its failing to actually install Thoughts? Ideas? Suggestions? Random and odd comments about Terry Crews?

I've been searching for this as well. It seems that SCCM has no simple solution for reconfiguring/renaming machines.

Yes, I understand that, but what are the steps? I can't find anybody having documented how to do this.

Long story short: I have this Powershell module I'd like to set up as an Application so I can uninstall older versions of Java before deploying the current version of Java. How do I do this? I'm making the assumption the methodology would work for other scripts. Thanks (This is for SCCM 2012 R2)

Thanks for the workaround. Its a shame Applications are so limited.

I'm approaching this post from the assumption that I probably have no idea what I'm doing I find Applications to in SCCM 2012 to be far weaker than Packages, but I'm giving it the old college try! I want to be able to do things like run scripts before and/or after install, or deploy multiple MSIs in a sequence in an Application. Am I pie-in-the sky dreaming, or is this supported and possible? I haven't found any clear documentation on this. Thanks -- Example 1: Adobe Flash comes in an installer for Active X and a plug-In for other browsers. I want them together, but when I tried it out only the Active- X, the first one in the list, got installed, so I had to deploy them as separate Applications. Example 2: I want to run a script after Office 2013 installs to clean up any Office 2010 shortcuts that may be hanging around.