Applications failing to install during task sequence

Question

Hello All:
I am having a major issue deploying applications through task sequence. The errors in the smsts.log are useless and every single one of my 7 applications I have assigned to the task sequence fail with the same error. Here is a snippet...
Policy Evaluation failed, hr=0x87d00269 InstallApplication 12/5/2013 2:24:36 PM 1876 (0x0754)Setting TSEnv variable 'SMSTSAppPolicyEvaluationJobID__ScopeId_A8C9B482-A47E-433C-914C-DEDEE5465DFD/Application_72ba1d7c-710f-48e5-9295-bcdc07f5cdca'='' InstallApplication 12/5/2013 2:24:36 PM 1876 (0x0754)EvaluationJob complete InstallApplication 12/5/2013 2:24:36 PM 1876 (0x0754)MP list missing in WMI, sending message to location service to retrieve MP list and retrying. InstallApplication 12/5/2013 2:24:36 PM 1876 (0x0754)m_hResult, HRESULT=87d00269 (e:\nts_sccm_release\sms\client\osdeployment\installapplication\installapplication.cpp,1065) InstallApplication 12/5/2013 2:25:50 PM 1876 (0x0754)Step 4 out of 7 complete InstallApplication 12/5/2013 2:25:50 PM 1876 (0x0754)Install application action failed: 'GoToMeeting'. Error Code 0x87d00269 InstallApplication 12/5/2013 2:25:50 PM 1876 (0x0754)
The OS deploys, the Config Mgr client deploys, everything else appears to work except the applications.
All applications are silent installers that deploy perfectly through regular deployment.
Here is a link to my smsts.log - http://sdrv.ms/1kg8fiP
Any help on this is greatly appreciated.
Brad
-Brad

Answer 1

Sorry about that previous post, I probably got distracted by a cat meme or something shiny ;)
I took at look at the full smsts logfile, and it seems to me that the detection method for the appmodel apps is failing. we aren't doing appmodel via TS as yet, so I don't know what "normal/expected" looks like when invoked via TS.
but it looks to me, that the detection methods is returning 0x87d00215 "app failed to evaluate" (which I'd expect at the time of a refresh), but it then returns 0x87d00269 "required MP not found", which seems very out-of-context
to me.
are there appenforce.log and other appmodel logs that coincide with this smsts.log?
I fear I'm misunderstanding what this log is saying, the language/terminology of DCM is still foreign to me.
does "app failed to evaluate" mean, "the app detection markers were not found" (i.e. the app is not present), or, does it mean "the methods crashed so cannot determine if the app is present or absent" ?
if all of this is based on generic DCM concepts, then we should be looking for a condition, and getting a present/absent or true/false or something plain like that.
Don
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