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Last entries say that it has found updates so it seems to be detecting the updates fine, I can see that it is downloading the updates from the DP up to 8 of 21 and then it stops. Looking through the other logs everything seems OK, no errors and it is connecting to the SCCM server to get the updates.

Tried the proxy suggestion same thing happens .

No reason just checking. Will let you know how this goes, thanks for your help.

What username and password will this use? Also does it matter that it is Windows XP that I am deploying?

It was just over 6 hours. If I disable this step in the task sequence and let the machine continue building, once it is into Windows the patches install in about 3 minutes, this is without any proxy specified it just pulls them from it's local DP.

I didn't think that was required as the updates are all on the SCCM box and this is where the client is pulling them from. I left the PC overnight and by the time I came in this morning it had completed the task sequence and I could see that it had installed the updates.

Yes we use ISA.

Hi This seems to be a common problem and I've tried alot of the suggestions already posted without much luck. I'm trying to build a machine and everything was working fine until I introduced a "Install Software Updates" step. When it gets to this step it appears to be working normally and starts to download updates but then stops at update 8 of 21 and it will sit there for about an hour and then do another update. My task sequence is as follows: 1.Restart in Windows PE 2.Partition Disk 0 3.Apply Operating System 4.Apply Windows Settings 5.Apply Network Settings - Workgroup 6.Apply Device Drivers 7.Setup windows and ConfigMgr - I have specified the SMSSLP and SMSMP in the Installation Properties 8.Install Software Updates - I have tried both All Software Updates and Mandatory Software Updates 9.Various other steps to install standard software The only thing that sticks out in the logs is in the SMSTS.log file. At the point where it starts to hang there are multiple entries stating: Waiting for job status notification ..........Component="InstallSWupdate" a new entry gets written to the log file every minute. Steps taken to resolve this include: Adding a restart in between steps 8 and 9 - this caused step 9 to fail altogether Installing a new version of Windows Update Agent Added a rescan of ISU as per a few posts on this forum SCCM setup is in mixed mode running SCCM 2007 SP2 R2. Any thoughts?

I've found exactly the same as you. Personally I configured WDS and then installed the PXE service point and I've had no problems.