SCCM 2012 R2 OSD Win7, a Reference Image or Install.wim from the Win 7 media

I want to use thin image to deploy win7.
So do I need to built a reference Image, or I can use install.wim from Windows 7 media directly?
I saw someone suggest built a reference Image fist. so what different between builting a reference Image or using install.wim from Win7 media?

Hi,
When you build your won reference image you can include your own software and Software Updates which makes it a lot faster to deploy. I normally add:
- Windows 7 hotfixes that are not delivered through WSUS/Microsoft Update
- Visual Studio Runtimes 2005,2008,2010,2012
- .NET framework 4.5
- And all the latest software updates from Microsoft.
So I recommend that you create your own image.
Regards,
Jörgen
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@ccmexec
Also it's best practice to build and capture using a VM rather than physical.
Cheers
Paul | sccmentor.wordpress.com

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Yes, I open a dos box during the Windows Setup, xcopy SMSTaskSequence to C:\temp
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Hello,
Actually i have a difficult Problem with my SCCM 2012 R2 CU2 Windows 7 x64 SP1 Tasksequence:
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Here is the complete smsts.log: http://1drv.ms/1pwTEBf
To explain the Problem in Detail:
The SCCM Primary Site Server and the Clients are in different trusted (bidirectional) forests!
Everythings working fine in this Scenario, I can install SCCM Agent on the Clients with Manual ccmsetup and with Client Push Installation. Additionally i can deploy Software Updates and so on... only OSD is crashing in the releaserequest step.
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MP published to DNS in both domains
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DNs conditional forwarders configured in both Domains and DNS resolutin is working in both directions
Any suggestions?
Many thanks.
regards,
Christian

Hi Christian,
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SCCM 2012 SP1 OSD in 802.1X environment

Dears,
we have SCCM 2012 SP1 CU5, and the network team has enabled the CISCO port security (802.1X network authentication) on the desktops VLAN and OSD is not working since then until port security is removed. i've seen some guides regarding how to make SCCM 2007
OSD, WinPE 3.0 and 802.1X work together like : http://myitforum.com/cs2/blogs/lakey81/archive/2011/07/06/configuring-802-1x-network-authentication-for-winpe-3-0-and-configmgr-deployments.aspx , but ot's very confusing.
does anybody have the same scenario with SCCM 2012, WinPE 5.0, and 802.1X . please help me.

Hello,
What confused you here? 802.1X authentication is to authenticate before sending network packages. That is why we need import netwrok profile to win pe for anthentication. The point is authenticate, so I think it won't be any difference between
ConfigMgr 2012 and 2007.
Another good article here:
http://blogs.technet.com/b/deploymentguys/archive/2010/03/02/adding-support-for-802-1x-to-winpe.aspx
Please also pay attention to the shared document in the blog.
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Task Sequence Failed 0x80091007. SCCM 2012 R2 OSD

Hi,
I have multicast deployment issue with Configuration Manager 2012 R2.
Unicast is working fine, Multicast throwing error 0x80091007.
Wait time starts and after 40 to 50 seconds pops up with error 0x80091007
I have already tried Redistributing and recreating image, trying with different systems, Direct access from DP settings, validating share access and all.
There is no SMSTS.LOG available on client systems.

Hi,
How about MCSISAPI.log?
Here is a blog talks about this error, you could have a look.
"Update 19-6-2013: Nick send me a possible solution in comments. What you have to do is make sure you don't have a custom Multicast range set - use the setting "Use IPv4 addresses within any range"
in the SCCM 2012 multicast tab under Distribution Point properties.
The default is 239.0.0.1 to 239.0.0.254 - if you have a custom range set - it IGNORES it and uses a random address in 239 range anyways. He has tried to statically set a 239 range on both SCCM multicast and WDS multicast settings - ignores them still uses a
random address in the 239 range regardless.
On your Cisco core - if your using that - make sure your ACL's and Rendezvous Point ACL for PIM permits the 239 range. As soon as this was done it's all working. > Will try that myself next month! "
http://henkhoogendoorn.blogspot.com/2013/02/multicast-error-0x80091007-during.html
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SCCM 2012 R2 Tasksequence for VDI Master Image

Hi
I'm currently building a ConfigMgr Tasksequence for a RDS VDI solution. At the end of the TS I have a PowerShell Script which prepares the SCCM Client for the master image (delete certs, remove provisioning mode). I would like to use the variable
SMSTSPostAction for doing the sysprep with a shutdown. But the machine hangs after rebooting out from the PS Script. Of course the Agent is no longer available but the SMSTSPost Action Variable should start.
Does anyone have an idea?
I need to use SCCM as MDT is not an option.

I fixed this by myself using powershell.
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Get-childitem -Path cert:\localmachine\sms -DnsName *SMS* | Remove-Item
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Clear-Host
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Deploying the SCCM 2012 Client to WES 7 devices that are locked down with the FBWF using 2007 task sequence via WEDM.

I'm wondering how people are migrating their embedded devices that are using the FBWF. I've done some googling and it seems like most people are just re-imaging the devices and after migrating a single device i see why. Its not a pretty process. This will
be a long description but ultimately my question stems more from trying to find a better way to execute the device migration from 2007 to 2012.
Some back ground on my situation might be in order here. I'm in the process of wrapping up our 2007 to 2012 migration. We have a 2007 infrastructure that was a central server with 2 primaries and 286 secondary site servers. I've consolidated that to a single
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i validate it has its proper scep policy applied which I believe can be validated by a registry key somewhere.
Once the 2012 client gets installed will that cause it to lose its place within the 2007 Task Sequence? Considering its going to take a minimum of 2 reboots I'd normally use the task sequence to handle its progression through the process.
I'm also considering trying to use an Orchestrator runbook, as that would be a good way to keep track of the migration process as each device migrates. Especially since this might take several seperate scripts.
I'm going to take a stab at scripting the migration process, but if anyone has any pointers that might make this a less complicated I'd really appreciate it as I've got about 3000 of these devices that need to be migrated over. The other things i've learned
the hard way is any time you have something this complicated over the course of 3000 devices you will run into unknowns and the failure rate increases. I'm in the precarious position of having to not only build this process out but in some situations have
it complete in the shortest amount of time possible as we have sites running 24x7. I know the end users behavior all to well and they will just keep hitting the power button sometimes even though their not supposed to so they can get their device functional
again. In those situations i'd end up, if i'm lucky with a device that no longer has a healthy SCCM client in either environment and the write filter disabled.
So like i said any pointers anyone could throw my way i'd really appreciate. I manually went through the migration process on a single device for proof of concept and ended up with almost 2 pages of pseudo code for my migration script/scripts.
Thanks,
-K.R.

Hi,
In R2 there are some new variables you can use to solve this,
http://ccmexec.com/2014/12/smstsmplistrequesttimeout-value-in-milliseconds/
In Sp1 though adding a step to sleep for 2-5 minuter after reboot and before the application install step is a common workaround.. a powershell command with "Start-Sleep
-s 120" should do it.
/Jörgen
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SCCM 2012 Application Catalog shows ALL advertised to a user independant of the OS they are using

Within SCCM 2007 if a package was to be made available only to the following platforms, it would only show up on those platforms... If a user was using Win XP and had a package meant ONLY for Win7 advertised to them, they would not see it.... It seems as
though in CM12, if a user has advertisements meant for XP, Win7, 64 bit, etc... everything appears in teh application catalog. I also understand that the software center is meant for application publishing and not for regular packages as they were in 2007...
Is there a way to make the packages meant for XP to only appear in the users catalog and NOT show the Win 7 packages?
As we are in the middle of a Win 7 migration, we need to manage this without a lot of work within AD...

Hi,
In Configuration Manager 2012 packages and applications that are made available to users are always displayed in the Application Catalog, the platform requirement is not evaluated until the user actually tries to install the application then the requirements
are evaluated and the installation will not continue if there the requirements doesn't match the plattform.
Software Center will display all packages/programs and applications that are deployed as "available" to devices and not users. User targeted will always show up in the Application Catalog..
Regards,
Jörgen
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SCCM 2012 Recover "User State Recovery Key" after Deletion Policy has removed the key

I have a computer that was upgraded from Windows XP to 7 using SCCM 2012. The user's info was captured and restored, but found out a month later that some Outlook Archives are corrupt.
I had this happen before on a different user, but found out right away and was able to recover the User State Recovery Key and restore the files.
I have looked under Assets and Compliance, User State Migration, but the computer is not listed anymore.
I have done a file restore of the USMT.MIG file from three weeks ago, but can not extract the users files without the User State Recovery Key.
I have looked through the SQL tables and have only found the StateEncryptDecryptKey in the StateMigration table which will not work.
Environment:
Windows 2008 R2 SP1 SCCM 2012 Server
Windows 2008 R2 SP1 SQL 2012 Server
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Wendell

It worked! Thank you Jason!
I restored the server's Storage Folder from "State Migration Point" (USMT Folder) from the same date as the SQL database was restored from. Shut the SCCM server down while doing the SQL restore. Turned on the Server and was able
to pull out the User State Recovery Key.
Then reverted back by shutting down the SCCM server and restoring SQL database back to previous backup taken before starting.
Only issue I'm getting now is that SMS_EN_ADSERVICE_MONITOR has a warning
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With checking everything out to make sure no issues have arised. I looked through the log adctrl.log and found some more errors about Failed to create instance of ADService Managed Component. error = -2147024809
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Wendell

SCCM 2012 report for all versions on MS lync installed

Hello,
I have installed Microsoft Lync 2010 and Lync 2013 on computers in my company and I have different versions
like 32 and 64 bits, 365 etc I want to make query in SCCM 2012 to tell me the total number of Microsoft Lync clients Installed on win 8 machines in my company, is there a best way to do this I need your advice..
I have tried various built in reports and not been successful so far.
Thanks in Advance

There's a thread already explaining this :
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/f16f1ee8-206c-42a1-af0e-0363c51b840c/how-to-know-total-of-microsoft-lync-installed-on-computers-in-sccm-2012?forum=configmanagergeneral
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Previewing images in forms 11g from the server

Hi All,
i need your help in this issue please
i've just migrated my application from forms 6i to forms 11g
there is a function in my application that i used that previewed images that exists on a network drive that are used in an image gallary
now i don't have this setup as the application is hosted on the weblogic server
i want an alternative method that i can use to preview the images from the server
the old way was:
read_image_file('.\default_image.jpg','any','preview.image_preview'); --this shows a default image if no image was selected
if :search_results.file_path is not null then
     read_image_file(:preview.image_path||'\'||:search_results.file_path,'any','preview.image_preview');     -- this shows the image that we retreived it's name from the database but it exists on the file system
end if;
i've configured the webutil but i don't know what method to use
also another functionality that i lost in the migration is opening a browser window to preview the final article that the editor entered using my application
the old way was:
declare
     url varchar2(1000);
begin
     url:='http://10.100.100.197:55/allcontent/allcontentimages/'||:SEARCH_RESULTS.FILE_PATH||'';
WIN_API_SHELL.WinExec('"C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\IEXPLORE.EXE" '||url||'',
WIN_API.SW_SHOWMAXIMIZED,TRUE);
Exception when NO_DATA_FOUND then
MESSAGE('CAN NOT FIND THE FILE');
end;
now ithe WIN_API_SHELL is not working as i'm on the server side and i don't know the alternative
please advice

Hello Nivin
If you want to read an file from local drive or from netwrok drive then before reading images please make sure that do you have full rights and have you mapped that network drive .
after that you use read_image_file built in(). secondly you configure WEBUTIL package.
please visit the following link for configuring webutil.
I configured my webutil package from this link and its worked fine.
http://www.baigzeeshan.com/2010/01/open-file-dailog-box-example-using.html
thanks
G.Yassen

SCCM 2012 R2 OSD Win7, a Reference Image or Install.wim from the Win 7 media

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