State Migration Point Minimum Free Space

Question

I am in the process of doing OS deployment with Windows 7. I have a State Migration Point in place with minimum free space threshold of 100mb. My question is, will my task sequence error out and fail prior to formatting the drive and installing Windows 7
if the minimum free space is met and all the data cannot be captured? I am nervous that if this threshold is met all user data on a system is not able to be captured and the task sequence continues on to format the drive and install the OS.
Thanks,
Mike
Solutions Architect

Answer 1

Yes, the prepare state capture task will fail if it can't find an SMP with free space on it thus causing the TS as a whole to fail assuming you haven't selected the ignore failure option on the task or any of its parent groups. That's doesn't necessarily
guarantee that there is enough free space or that multiple simultaneous task sequences couldn't cause issues though thus you should plan accordingly, monitor the free space instead of leaving it to chance, and enable the auto cleanup feature with a rational
period of time.
Jason | http://blog.configmgrftw.com