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  1. I have found multiple methods to pre-populate SCCM package content for secondary sites and branch distribution points. However, I cannot find any valid method to pre-load package content to a standard DP connected to a primary site. The reason I need to do this is because I have some sites with DP's on very small WAN links. In these cases, letting SCCM poplate the DP over SMB is spiking the lines and basically taking the entire sites off the network. Estimates are that this would take 2 - 3 weeks to complete! I want to have the content delivered on a portable HD, but need a process to get the DP's updated once the content is received. Any ideas?
  2. I am having a very strange issue deploying SCCM clients to Windows 7 Enterprise x64. This has been demonstrated on multiple systems with the client being deployed either via client push, or during an OSD task sequence. It CANNOT be reproduced on Windows XP/2003 machines. In either case, the client installs successfully, and there are no errors in the ccmsetup.log, and it reports in successfully to the SCCM site server, and shows as approved. The SMS Host service is also running, and ccmexec.log is clean. Now here is where it starts to get strange. If you go into control panel, none of the SCCM client cpl's appear. There is no 'Configuraiton Manager', no 'run Advertised Programs', etc. If you check the execmgr log never shows the processing of any advertisements, and shows the following errors: Failed to instantiate UI server {GUID} with error 80004005 Failed to instantiate UI server 2 {GUID} with error 80004005 Failed to instantiate Updates UI server {GUID} with error 80004005 Failed to instantiate VAP UI server {GUID} with error 80004005 Com Client Agent Settings for the client are missing from WMI 80004005 is a permission denied error, and sure enough, it looked like UAC makes it so that neither admins or the system account can access the c:\windows\system32\ccm (or syswow64\ccm in this case) folders without being challenged first. As soon as I say yes I want to access this folder, it creates a direct ACL and magically the control panel icons appear, and advertisements start processing. However, this only lasts a manner of minutes, then UAC locks the directory back down, and the client is broken again! Has anyone else seen this behavior? I would hate to think I need to full out disable UAC to run SCCM. Thanks, --Mike
  3. I did some playing around, it looks like that reg key doesn't get populated until the first time a user logs onto the machine, which is why it failed to pull data from it. The env variable issue makes sense if I don't use the runas account. I wanted the install script to be able to be called from a Task Sequence, OR as a standard package, OR even just from the command line for existing systems, and be compatible either way. If I had the script pull the domain from the SMS.TS environment it would work in the TS, but fail installing normally. I suppose I could put a check in to try to pull from the TS environment first, and if it fails (because it is not in a TS) to then attempt to pull from alternate sources.
  4. I am putting together a pretty complex server build process using task sequences. As part of this process, I wrote a VBScript that among other things starts by enumerating the domain that the target machine is a member of. Running the script from the command line works perfectly. Running a Task sequence that first boots to WinPE, installs Windows 2003 x64, joins the domain, reboots, installs software, then runs the script, the script fails to obtain the domain information <null value>. If a run a second task sequence that contains only a 'run command line' step to execute the script, on that same exact machine that was just built using the previous TS, it works perfectly! For the life of me, I cannot figure out why a TS that runs through an entire build process fails, where the one that does nothing but runs the command works. I should point out specifically that it is the last step of the build TS, meaning it is indeed booted back to the installed OS, and not running from PE. In both instances, I do not specific an account to run the command line under, I let it use the SCCM account. I tried two different methods to obtain the current domain, including accessing the %USERDOMAIN% env variable, and a RegRead to HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\WinLogon\DefaultDomainName I am not using the WMI Win32_ComputerSystem domainname value since it returns the fully qualified domain name, not the friendly one which is what I need.
  5. The drivers themselves are already installed as part of a driver package, all I am really after are the teaming components in the exe. I would already be using the caching feature if I could have it cache an individual package, rather than setting it for the whole advertisement. It makea a 40 minute deployment balloon to several hours. Heck, it takes 20 minutes alone just to cache the WIM file...
  6. I have an SCCM OSD Task Sequence that I am using to build Windows 2003 servers. One of the steps installs the Intel ProSet drivers and teaming software, but the deployment fails. http://downloadcenter.intel.com/detail_des...mp;DwnldID=8719 From what I can tell, during the installation, the NIC temporarily loses network connectivity, which is a bad thing when trying to install a package over the network. At this point, it errors out, reporting that it cannot find some of the installation files. I have tried both the EXE installer (DXSETUP.EXE) and MSI based (Prosetdx.msi) with the same failures. I can reproduce the failure outside of SCCM just by trying to run the installer off the distribution point manually. Copying the installer locally allows it to run without error. Now, I know I can configure the advertisement to download all contents and run from a local cache instead of over the network, but it would increase my deployment by over 800%, as it would locally download my huge OS image and every other package as well. If only you could specify that by an individual package, not the whole advertisement. Any ideas?
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