MDT installation and random failures

We have MDT 2012 Update 1 x64 and we use MDT to install new machines. MDT is installed to virtual machine running Windows Server 2012 (hypervisor is also Windows Server 2012) We boot machines with PXE and start task sequence from there. Randomly MDT task
sequence fails on some computers and few or more random applications wont install. We just start installation again and usually then it goes without errors.
When I open BDD.log it contains these errors:
WARNING - unable to set working directory: (-2147024832)
ZTIApplications 11.3.2014 13:12:38
0 (0x0000)
Error installing application Microsoft Office 2010 ProPlus 32-bit ENG: The specified network name is no longer available.
ZTIApplications 11.3.2014 13:12:38
0 (0x0000)
Any idea what could be causing this?

Unable to set working directory suggests that the directory is not there. Does this happen all the time for this specific application, or random?
If it always happens for this application, then I would say the directory is not accessible from the OS Clients, either it does not exist, or perhaps some permissions issue.
If you only get the error, once in a while, then I would suggest you have some network problems. Some debugging may be necessary.
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