SCCM 2012 - OS Build

Hi All,
I have SCCM 2012 sp1 installed and i am in the phase of building the machines. I need some advice on the below from your experience
I wanted to create a customized SSRS report which talks about the application that is installed on the machine. Hopefully i wanted to know how many hours will it take to reflect in the report after successful installation. The whole objective is that i dont
want the engineer to manually check all the application for the specific device. Or please advice what is the best way to verify
Regards, Pratap

If I am understanding you correctly, you want the engineer that loads the computer to be able to easily see if everything is installed that should be? If this is the case then this may be a solution for you. I have a collection setup that is called "OSD
Applications". This collection has the same applications deployed to it that the OSD task sequence is installing and it has a query setup that automatically populates the client into the collection. When the client checks in it receives its application list
from the server and, as long as they are applications (not packages), will validate the applications are installed via the detection methods in place.

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I have upgraded my SCCM 2012 SP1 (CU2) to SCCM 2012 R2 and I am attempting to Build and Capture Windows 8.1 Enterprise. Everything is perfect except for the OS prompting for a network selection during the process, if I click "next" on that screen
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Hi LillonelC
Can you point out how and where to do this?
When capturing with MDT 2013 on VMware I do not see this, naturaly, since the "machine" only has one network adapter.
But when deploying to a Laptop I get the wireless Setup screen...
On beforehand Thank You!
With kind regards
We aren't using MDT but what we did was create a package called Windows 8.1 - Compnents. In it placed a file named "32Bit-Unattend.xml" and 1 named "64Bit-Unattend.xml".
During the capture in the "Apply Operating System Image" I put a check in the box "Use an unattended or Sysprep answer file for a custom installation". The package was Windows 8.1 - Compnents the File name was "32Bit-Unattend.xml".
I did the same for 64-bit and used the 64-bit version.
Here is content of the 32-bit file:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<unattend xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:unattend">
<settings pass="oobeSystem">
<component name="Microsoft-Windows-Shell-Setup" processorArchitecture="x86" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="neutral" versionScope="nonSxS" xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
<OOBE>
<HideEULAPage>true</HideEULAPage>
<HideWirelessSetupInOOBE>true</HideWirelessSetupInOOBE>
<NetworkLocation>Work</NetworkLocation>
<HideOnlineAccountScreens>true</HideOnlineAccountScreens>
<HideOEMRegistrationScreen>true</HideOEMRegistrationScreen>
<HideLocalAccountScreen>true</HideLocalAccountScreen>
</OOBE>
</component>
</settings>
<cpi:offlineImage cpi:source="wim://SERVERNAME/e$/osimages/win_8.1_x86/sources/install.wim#Windows 8.1 Enterprise" xmlns:cpi="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:cpi" />
</unattend>
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<unattend xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:unattend">
<settings pass="oobeSystem">
<component name="Microsoft-Windows-Shell-Setup" processorArchitecture="amd64" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="neutral" versionScope="nonSxS" xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
<OOBE>
<HideEULAPage>true</HideEULAPage>
<HideWirelessSetupInOOBE>true</HideWirelessSetupInOOBE>
<NetworkLocation>Work</NetworkLocation>
<HideOnlineAccountScreens>true</HideOnlineAccountScreens>
<HideOEMRegistrationScreen>true</HideOEMRegistrationScreen>
<HideLocalAccountScreen>true</HideLocalAccountScreen>
</OOBE>
</component>
</settings>
<cpi:offlineImage cpi:source="wim://SERVERNAME/e$/osimages/win_8.1_x64/sources/install.wim#Windows 8.1 Enterprise" xmlns:cpi="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:cpi" />
</unattend>
If that doesn't help I can try to clarify it a bit further.
PS You won't need to do this for the deploy, only the capture.
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SCCM 2012 SP1 - Build and Capture - ReCapture impossible

Hi all
i upgrade my SCCM 2012 RTM to SCCM 2012 SP1 yesterday. Today i started a recapture of my Windows 7 and Windows 2008 R2 Base Image.
For that i have 2 VMs located in different SCCM Collections. And a Build and Capture Task Sequence is deployed to the collections.
Before SP1 the behavior was:
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And that i could do all the time so often as i want.
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There are no task sequences available to this computer
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best
JBAB

Hi, your problem is that when you deploy the task over the collation you only specified "media and PXE" was available to and probably the machines that you try to capture already had the sccm client. You can try to deploy the sequence task to a collation
including the the option "configuration manager, media and PXE", or you can also deploy the task sequence to de "unknown devices" collation and delete the objects of the two virtual machines in configuration manager

New SCCM 2012 R2 Build

Hello I have a question. This is all being done in an disconnected environment. I have a virtual server that is currently running SCCM 2012 R2. I want to put SCCM 2012 R2 on a physical server. Should I just go with an entirely new
build or try to migrate it over? Thanks.

Worth answering Torsten's question first. Do you have much configured in the virtual ConfigMgr site? If not then it's worth decomming it by uninstalling or otherwise look at migrating over.
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SCCM 2012 R2 CU2 Can't Edit WMI Query Code in Report Builder

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I'll repost info here to make this easier.....
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Problems with report builder 3.0 in SCCM 2012 R2 CU2

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We version of SQL we use is SQL 2008 R2 SP2
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at System.Deployment.Application.ComponentVerifier.VerifyFileHash(String filePath, Hash hash)
at System.Deployment.Application.ComponentVerifier.VerifyFileHash(String filePath, HashCollection hashCollection)
at System.Deployment.Application.ComponentVerifier.VerifyComponents()
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System.Deployment.Application.DownloadManager.DownloadDependencies(SubscriptionState subState, AssemblyManifest deployManifest, AssemblyManifest appManifest, Uri sourceUriBase, String targetDirectory, String group, IDownloadNotification notification, DownloadOptions
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at System.Deployment.Application.ApplicationActivator.DownloadApplication(SubscriptionState subState, ActivationDescription actDesc, Int64 transactionId, TempDirectory& downloadTemp)
at System.Deployment.Application.ApplicationActivator.InstallApplication(SubscriptionState& subState, ActivationDescription actDesc)
at System.Deployment.Application.ApplicationActivator.PerformDeploymentActivation(Uri activationUri, Boolean isShortcut, String textualSubId, String deploymentProviderUrlFromExtension, BrowserSettings browserSettings, String& errorPageUrl)
at System.Deployment.Application.ApplicationActivator.ActivateDeploymentWorker(Object state)
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4. I uninstalled and re-installed the reporting role on the server and received the 1015 in the log.
5. I restarted the server and the client machine
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Errors With Original DLL
ERROR DETAILS
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Install Updates task not working during Build and Capture in SCCM 2012

Working with a new SCCM 2012 installation.
We are trying to get a Build and Capture TS to install all updates for Win7SP1.
All packages are deployed to DP, build and cap machine is in a collection with all updates deployed to it. Agent installation parameters include "SMSMP" "SMSSLP" parameters. Machine is not being attached to the domain during OS install.
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The task sequence works correctly to install the image, but "Install Updates" task just sits there and eventually times out. (No indication of updates being installed.) If this task is working, shouldn't I see a Downloading Updates progress bar, or was that
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I figured out a workaround for OSD. Essentially I create a fake ccmsetup.exe which then executes the normal ccmsetup command line OSD needs but with the /skipprereq:WindowsUpdateAgent30-x64.exe parameter included.
1. Create a copy of your client install package. Move all the install files/folders into a new subfolder named client.
2. Add the new client package and make note of the package ID assigned.
3. Using VS Express 2013, create a new c# console project and name it ccmexec. Paste this code in, replace 10000A53 with the package ID of your new client package, and compile.
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Diagnostics;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
namespace ccmsetup
    class Program
        static void Main(string[] args)
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/config:C:\\_SMSTaskSequence\\OSD\\10000A53\\MobileClient.TCF");
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4. Take the fake ccmexec.exe and add it to the root (the root only - don't overwrite the normal ccmsetup.exe located in the client folder) of your new client source folder and update your new client package.
5. Modify your Windows 10 task sequence(s) and switch the SCCM client package to your new one.
This works for me under SCCM 2012 R2 CU1 w/ WIndows 10 x64 build 10041. This should work for the 10061 build as well. Yeah I know I this could be better (extract package ID from command line, etc.) but I was in a hurry just to make sure this workaround fundamentally
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Steps to create MDT based Build and capture TS in SCCM 2012 R2

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MDT 2012 Update 1 is for SCCM 2012 SP1
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I am trying to create a report with SQL query on SCCM 2012. I get the below error.
TITLE: Microsoft SQL Server Report Builder
An error occurred while executing the query.
The SELECT permission was denied on the object 'v_GS_OPERATING_SYSTEM', database 'CM_C01', schema 'dbo'.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
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How to Custom Report using sql server report builder for SCCM 2012 SP1

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i want to create a report in which computer name, total disk space, physical disk serial no come together. i already added class (physical disk serial no.) in hardware inventory classes. refer snapshot

Hi,
Here is a guide on how to create custom reports in Configuration Manager 2012, it is a great place to start, change to the data you want to display instead.
http://sccmgeekdiary.wordpress.com/2012/10/29/sccm-2012-reporting-for-dummies-creating-your-own-ssrs-reports/
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Have Existing SCCM 2012 Config mgr and want to build new config mgr

Hello,
I inherited an environment that had an SCCM 2012 Configuration Manager server setup and migrated from 2007 I believe. It is very polluted and not setup correctly to utilize any of the new features. Everything I try to implement either does not
work or throws errors.
I would like to remove this server from the environment and stand up a new SCCM 2012 server. Is this possible to do easily?

Yes this is possible, but I wouldn't call it easy. You've got to rebuild your environment and if you're not migrating your old objects, like your packages, it can be a lot of work. Also, don't forget that you'll also have to bring all your clients to your
new environment.
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Adobe Creative Cloud Enterprise Deployment Issues using SCCM 2012 R2

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I have been trying to deploy Adobe Creative Cloud Enterprise to Windows 8.1 machines that are identical, using SCCM 2012 R2.
The Adobe package seems fine, because it seems to deploy successfully to some machines. And SCCM 2012 R2 has been configured correctly, as I can deploy other software using it, and again, it deploys Adobe CC successfully to some of the machines.
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I have contacted Adobe Enterprise Support, and they asked me to send to them log files from Event Viewer, the msi installer, and other Adobe logs, from the machine that failed the deployment. However, after Adobe studying them, they told me that they could not identify any problems... Strange, because I could have sworn that I saw error 1603 pop up over 20 times on different machines indicating that the 'Set-up.dat' file had a problem with it.
After all the testing on over 20 identical machines (same hardware/same software), using different configurations on SCCM 2012 R2 and the client machines, I still can't seem to have a reliable solution to deploying Adobe CC.
The fact that it deploys successfully on one machine and fails on another, or sometimes deploy to two machines and fail on another (simultaneously), is something that I don't understand.
Another thing is that, if I retry the deployment 10-15 times after it failed the first time, it might go through...
Adobe Enterprise Support asked me if they could remote into a machine that failed the deployment to have a look at it and I agreed to that option, but it seems like my issue has been ignored because they never got back to me.
Has anyone had this kind of problem or anything similar before?
I need to be able to deploy this remotely to 100+ machines. So installing manually is not an option.
Any help is appreciated.
This was posted in the wrong section a few days ago. I'm hoping I can get some help here.
Case Number: 1862659812
UPDATE: I spoke to Adobe Customer Support and after 1.5 hours on the phone with a remote session going on, problem was still not solved or identified. Additional log files have been sent and now I'm waiting for a call back.

Hi Robert,
We seem to be having a very similar issue. Our installs would randomly fail with error code 1603 and an error message about a fault in Set-up.dat. Failure rate was near 95% on our 900 machines. Adobe Support and Karl having been looking into our issues but so far no solution has been found.
Having done a lot of investigating we've managed to deploy our package using a schedule task running as a domain admin. This is a nasty solution and we don't intend on using this permanently, but we needed to get the package out.
Are you seeing any of the following:
Entries in PDApp.log:
[FATAL] | | ASU | DeploymentManager | DeploymentManager | | | 2900 | The Bootstrapper Process is (5).Stopping the installation process.
[FATAL] | | ASU | DeploymentManager | DeploymentManager | | | 2900 | The return code from the Adobe Installer Process is (33).Stopping the uninstallation process.
[WARN] | | ASU | DeploymentManager | DeploymentManager | | | 2900 | Failed to find the pdb database.
[WARN] | | ASU | DeploymentManager | DeploymentManager | | | 2900 | Failed to get the local payload database handle.
Event Log:
Faulting application name: Set-up.dat, version: 2.9.1.474, time stamp: 0x54e11f94
Faulting module name: Set-up.dat, version: 2.9.1.474, time stamp: 0x54e11f94
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x000d7c52
Faulting process id: 0xb40
Faulting application start time: 0x01d072a073861622
Faulting application path: \\server.name.path\Adobe CC\FullPackage\Build\ASU\Set-up.dat
Faulting module path: \\server.name.path\Adobe CC\FullPackage\Build\ASU\Set-up.dat
Report Id: c86d9216-de93-11e4-8284-782bcb99e284
Faulting package full name:
Faulting package-relative application ID:
Installer Log
Indicates it can't find the Media_db. We noticed that the folder C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Adobe\caps doesn't get created on the machines were the install fails, so error message is correct in that there isn't a Media_db.db. Sysinterals Process Monitor seems to show that the setup tried to create the folder/files but they don't actually get created. Copying a Media_db into the folder from another machine seems to allow the installation to almost finish, but unsurprisingly you end up with problems later on.

Deploying Applications with SCCM 2012 R2 to Server 2008 R2 RDS servers

I'm having some trouble finding some concrete information from Microsoft regarding the deployment of applications to RDS servers using SCCM 2012 R2. There seems to be a lot of conjecture, old information and old wives tales floating around and I was hoping
I could get some information confirmed!
1. MSI installs automatically switch to install mode on RDS servers?
I've seen this mentioned a few times. I've also seen it mentioned that it is only true when running the MSI from the console session manually (i.e clicking the MSI file) not running as SYSTEM as SCCM would usually do. Can someone confirm if they do this
themselves or not?
2. Users still logged in when deploying applications?
Is it possible to deploy an application while users are still logged in? Is this only related to going into 'install' mode and taking the chance that a user will do something that will cause issues? Or is it known to cause issues?
I guess those are the main ones, I'm experienced in SCCM but not with deploying to RDS servers, I cant seem to find any straight answers!
Anyway, thanks in advance!

I've never had large enough RDS environment to use SCCM for app push, but from my experience in managing 2012/R2 RDS and local installs, I never bother with switching to install mode anymore and it works fine. Now if you're skeptical, you can
easily build this into a script that runs as a pre-req to your .MSI as part of the software package in SCCM so it's not a big deal.
As for installing apps while users are logged in, shouldn't be a problem if you're installing a new app., if however you're updating an existing application or uninstalling it, then it may be best to drain that RDS host first of all user sessions then do
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