SCCM stand alone deployment issue

[FabianL]

Hello All:

I am having an issue with a stand-alone media deployment and was hoping someone could provide some insight. I am fairly new to SCCM, as had a consultant implement it for our antivirus Endpoint Protection. So please bear with me if I ask any ridiculous questions, but any help provided would be greatly appreciated. The consultant actually advised me to reach out to these forums if I needed help as he has used these for years. So here we go.

 

Basically what I am trying to accomplish is take an HP Pro 3500 OEM pc which will be used as a reference machine and image that same image to all of our other pcs. These machines will be in a standalone environment, not domain joined, and will not communicate with each other in any way. They are simply used to deploy a LOB application to our customers which are spread out across the US.

 

So far I have taken my reference PC and captured the image. I than created a task sequence which references that image. I created a task sequence media using the wizard and selected “stand-alone media”. I created it on a USB drive and it succeeded. When I plug it into a PC to image that PC the machine loads WinPE and once I select next at the password screen it basically says “No assigned task sequence for this computer”. I am looking at the log files and the error I see is “No assigned task sequence.” Component TSMBootstrap.

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

Thanks,

[Peter van der Woude]

That's usually an indication that either the task sequence is not deployed, or that the device is not in the right collection.

[FabianL]

Hello Peter,

 

Thanks for the reply. I am a bit confused and am hopeful that you can clear some of that up. Why would I need to deploy the task sequence? I am deploying via stand alone media. In fact these machines will not be interacting with SCCM in any way. Therefore they will not even be a part of a collection. I am merely using SCCM to capture an image and then creating a task sequence that will deploy that captured image, instead of using a third party tool like Acronis.

 

Thank you,

[Peter van der Woude]

I'm sorry, I completely missed the part about a stand-alone media, I responded based on the failure you've got. Are you absolutely sure that you've created a stand-alone media? A stand-alone media doesn't need any interaction with the site server at all...

[FabianL]

Hey Peter, thanks for the follow up. I got it going. It seems the issue was with capturing the image with x64 and trying to deploy it with an x86 boot image. I recaptured the image with a x86 capture media and was able to create the standalone media.

 

regards,