[Windows Update Packaging]

only what it needs

[State Migration Point Storage Folder - Permissions missing]

have the same issue here, though the permissions are reset every day, without server restart

 

edit:

errr.... It appears that permissions on drive that is used for DP are being reset automatically.

To prevent that, the SMP folder should not be on the same drive as the DP.

Is there specific maintenance task that does that? Is there a way to stop that behavior?

[How to package and deploy True Type Fonts]

The better way for me was using FontReg (google it), which copies and registers the fonts.

[Computer model and name Report]

Does SCCM inventors all the data from clients' WMI?

In the Win32_ComputerSystemProduct wmi class there's a Version string which holds "friendly" model name of the computer, instead of model numbers in case of Lenovos.

Does anyone know if this wmi data inventoried? It would be much better to use that for the Count of Models report... Was looking in the DB tables for a clue.. no go..

 

Anyone?

 

Thanks,

Dmitry

[how can i determine which version of SCCM 2007 is installed]

Is there a way to determine what version of R3 is installed (Beta/RTM/RTM Eval)?

[2 physical drives = problem]

hmm... didn't think of that, i'll try.

 

 

[2 physical drives = problem]

I had very unpleasant situation last week.

I was deploying Windows 7 (XP to 7 upgrade with hardlinking USMT) on machine with 2 physical drives. It was the first machine with 2 physical drives we deployed OS with SCCM on.

The OS image was applied to the wrong physical drive and as you may guess, caused data loss of that employee.

 

After trying to reproduce the situation, what i've seen was that after the machine boots to WinPE, it decides to switch by himself between the drives.

The first HDD becomes second, and the second first, and that way the image was applied to the wrong destination.

In TS the apply image is set to apply the image to the first available partition.

 

Is there any way to prevent this kind of behavior other than specifying the image to be applied to specific disk and partition? (Haven't tried that tho if it matters).

 

Thanks in advance,

Dynamitry

[using Offline Mode in Windows PE using USMT 4 via a task sequence in SCCM 2007 SP2]

it works perfectly Niall! Thank you!

 

just one thing, i used the regular USMT4 package for all steps, in XCOPY USMT step i pointed to the X86 folder of the package.

from dndoorlag's example:

xcopy %_SMSTSaaa00000%\x86\* %systemdrive%\USMTbits /herciy