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During Build and Capture you'll most likely want to have the latest Windows Updates in your Capture Image and as part of the Build and Capture process, your computer will be in a Workgroup.

 

This presents some challenges in that the client won't know where to go for windows updates etc, but we can help it find those updates with a Server Locator Point by Installing that role on our SCCM server.

 

Note: You must have created a Deployment Management Task containing windows updates applicable for the OS you are installing in your Build and Capture task sequence, and the Deployment Management Task must be targetted to a collection that your build and capture computer will be in during OSD deployment. A suitable collection would be the Deploy Windows 7 Collection

 

 

Server locator points are used in a Configuration Manager 2007 hierarchy to complete client site assignment on the intranet and help clients find management points when they cannot find that information through Active Directory Domain Services.

 

Intranet clients use Active Directory Domain Services as their preferred method to complete site assignment and find management points. However, clients must use a server locator point if the Active Directory schema is not extended for Configuration Manager 2007 or the site is not published to Active Directory Domain Services, or if clients do not belong to the same Active Directory forest as the site server's forest.

 

Note: You need only one server locator point for the Configuration Manager 2007 hierarchy, even if you have multiple sites. In a multi-site hierarchy, install the server locator point in the central site. If you install a server locator point in the middle of the hierarchy, it will have no knowledge of sites above it in the hierarchy.

 

 

From Technet:-

 

Planning and Deploying Clients for Configuration Manager 2007

How to Assign the Fallback Status Point to Configuration Manager Client Computers

How to Specify the Server Locator Point for Configuration Manager Client Computers

How to Create a Server Locator Point in Configuration Manager

 

 

To install the Server Locator Point Role

 

In the Configmgr console, Expand Site Database, Site Management, <Site Name>, Site Settings, Site Systems, highlight your site server.

 

Check to make sure that the role does not already exist on one the site system that you are going to install it on. If it does then you do not need to install it (and it won't show up in the list of new roles that can be installed).

 

To Install the role, right click the server that you want the role installed on and select New Roles, click Next, Select the Server Locator Point Role, Click Finish.

 

lp role.jpg

 

 

The Build and Capture Task Sequence

 

Now that the SLP role is installed we'll need to create a Build and Capture task sequence. I will supply you with one I've made for Windows 7 X86.

 

Build and Capture Windows 7x86 with SLP.xml

 

You can import this task sequence directly into SCCM and simply change the packages that it references:-

 

package references.jpg

 

So let's take a closer look at the task sequence, first of all it wipes the computer, and installs Windows 7, then it applies some windows settings, all standard stuff, next it joins a Workgroup in the Apply Network Settings step. Do not join a domain here, we are creating a master image here so we want it clean.

 

join a workgroup.jpg

 

The next step is where the magic happens, here we specify some switches for the Setup Windows and ConfigMgr step, Specifying the SLP, FSP and MP during Client Installation.

 

setup windows and configmgr step.jpg

 

You may be wondering why we are also specifying the Management Point and Fallback Status Point. If you have extended the Active Directory schema for Configuration Manager 2007, many client installation properties are published in Active directory and read automatically by the Configuration Manager 2007 client. For a list of the client installation properties published in Active Directory, see About Configuration Manager Client Installation Properties Published to Active Directory Domain Services. However as we are in a workgroup, we cannot query the AD site, we want our client to know where the Management Point is and also the Fallback Status Point (to report any client installation failures.)

 

Our next step simply installs some software, Mozilla Firefox in this example task sequence, in your production environment that could be several steps (Installing Office 2010, Symantec Antivirus, etc), and this is followed by the actual Install Software Updates step.

 

install software updates step.jpg

 

Note: If we don't specify the SLP in the Setup windows and ConfigMgr step then this step will simply time out and do nothing except generate an error in our Task Sequence.

 

 

 

How can I see that the SLP is correctly defined ?

 

Look on your client and find the LocationServices.log file (typically c:\windows\system32\ccm\logs),

 

locationservices.jpg

 

it should reference the following line (obvioulsy your SLP will be different to mine)

 

Retrieved SLP [sccm.server2008.lab.local] from Registry

 

If you don't specify the SLP in the Setup Windows and ConfigMgr step then you'll see the following errors (note the RED)

 

no slp defined no updates installed.jpg

 

LSGetSLPFromRegistry: Failed to get SLP from Registry (80004005)

 

If you enter the SLP but enter it incorrectly (spelling mistake or other) then you'll see something like this

 

Failed to send request to /sms_slp/slp.dll?site&sc=WNB at host bla.server2008.lab.local

 

logs from an unsuccessful slp setting.jpg

 

 

References:-

 

Server Locator Point

 

Determine If You Need a Server Locator Point for Configuration Manager Clients - Technet

How to Create a Server Locator Point in Configuration Manager - Technet

How to Specify the Server Locator Point for Configuration Manager Client Computers - Technet

 

Fallback Status Point

 

Determine If You Should Install a Fallback Status Point for Configuration Manager Clients - Technet

How to Create a Fallback Status Point in Configuration Manager - Technet

How to Assign the Fallback Status Point to Configuration Manager Client Computers - Technet

 

Management Point

 

Configuration Manager Client

 

About Configuration Manager Client Installation Properties - Technet

 

Forums

 

Install and Capture fails if specified any windows updates or software to install, 0x00000004 - Microsoft Technet forums

 

ConfigMgr "Install Software Updates" task failing when building a reference machine - CoreWorx's blog

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Hi there.

 

I have followed you instructions exactly but when my system reboots at the end of the TS I am greeted with the message:

 

BOOTMGR is missing

Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart

 

The system I am trying to image needs additional mass storage device drivers that I have added to the boot image.

 

I have also tried adding them to the TS (Apply Driver Package) but still the same error.

 

Please can you help me troubleshoot this.

 

I have read that using the RTM installation is not recommended but others say it will work?

 

Thanks

 

Andy

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