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I hope that you were able to watch our live stream on Wednesday, where we shared more details on the Windows 10 experience. If you missed it, you can watch the video on demand anytime and read Terry Myerson’s blog post that recaps the latest Windows 10 news. As Terry mentioned, we continue to be humbled by the amount of feedback and excitement we’re seeing from the Windows Insider community. Some of the new features that Joe demoed on Wednesday will be available for our Windows Insiders starting today with our newest build – 9926. However, not everything you saw on Wednesday is included in this new build. Much is still in-progress and we’re getting it out to you as fast as we can – so you can try it out and give us feedback. Over the course of the next few builds, you will see us refine Windows 10 and continue to improve the experiences as well as quality and stability. If you’re unfamiliar with the Windows Insider Program, this is our community who is helping us build Windows 10. If you’re not a Windows Insider yet, we’d love to have you join – see below. Also make sure you read the list of known issues at the end of this post before getting started. We’re pushing Build 9926 out widely, flighting simultaneously to both “Fast” and “Slow” rings simultaneously as well as available on ISOs since it has been a while since we’ve released a new build out to you. I know it was tough to wait for a new build. The gap between 9879 and 9926 is the longest you should expect to see with the program, because of the holidays and the need to add and stabilize feature payloads. We’ll get new builds out faster moving forward – thank you for being patient with us. Getting started: If you haven’t yet signed up for the Windows Insider program, start here. If you’re currently configured for the Fast or Slow rings, the build is available now. Just like last time, this new build will come to you automatically via Windows Update, installed during your maintenance window if your PC is plugged in and on or sleeping. If you don’t want to wait for it to download and install on its own – you can go to PC Settings, Update and recovery, Preview builds and click the Check Now button to go get it now. This is a full build, and it will be installed as an in-place upgrade, so you’ll go through those colorful “installing your apps” screens again. This is because your account is being re-provisioned after the upgrade. With this build we further converge our preview build distribution with Windows Update, and the new Settings app (which I’ll talk about below) introduces a different way for configuring how you receive new builds from us (whether you’re on the Slow ring or Fast ring) as a Windows Insider. more via Windows blog > http://blogs.windows.com/bloggingwindows/2015/01/23/january-build-now-available-to-the-windows-insider-program/

can you share your entire smsts.log, ?

ok so post your working solution here so others can benefit :-)

I think you should use SysNative instead like so http://www.samlogic.net/articles/sysnative-folder-64-bit-windows.htm If you for example specify this folder path in your application's source code: C:\Windows\Sysnative the following folder path is actually used: C:\Windows\System32

Microsoft has revealed that Windows 10 will bring its voice-controlled assistant Cortana to PCs. It also unveiled a headset that it said would one day project the operating system over views of the real world. In addition, the firm announced that the OS upgrade would be offered free of charge for devices running Windows 8, Windows 7 and Windows Phone. The offer, which is limited to the Windows 10's first year of release, may aid its adoption. It marks a change in strategy from Microsoft's previous policy of charging for major updates, and could help avoid a repeat of the relatively slow uptake of Windows 8. One analyst suggested the firm had needed to renew interest in its ecosystem. "Overall, we know that about only about 10% of computers are running Windows 8 and the adoption rate among companies is similar or lower," said Frank Gillett, an analyst at the Forrester consultancy. "Developers are not paying much attention to Windows for mass market consumer apps, and you could even argue that for enterprise software most of the energy is going into mobile apps for iPad and Android tablets. "Windows 10 is in effect a huge invitation to software developers to write exciting, powerful applications that will draw consumers. "My hunch is that they can succeed in getting a new generation of PC and tablet applications. The challenge is getting people interested in its phones." Holographic helmet It is likely to be years away from release, but Microsoft's chief executive Satya Nadella said the HoloLens headset represented a "magical moment" of "category creation" that developers lived for. via > BBC News

The Windows team shared more Windows 10 experiences and how Windows 10 will inspire new scenarios across the broadest range of devices, from big screens to small screens to no screens at all. You can catch the video on-demand presentation here. Windows 10 is the first step to an era of more personal computing. This vision framed our work on Windows 10, where we are moving Windows from its heritage of enabling a single device – the PC – to a world that is more mobile, natural and grounded in trust. We believe your experiences should be mobile – not just your devices. Technology should be out of the way and your apps, services and content should move with you across devices, seamlessly and easily. In our connected and transparent world, we know that people care deeply about privacy – and so do we. That’s why everything we do puts you in control – because you are our customer, not our product. We also believe that interacting with technology should be as natural as interacting with people – using voice, pen, gestures and even gaze for the right interaction, in the right way, at the right time. These concepts led our development and you saw them come to life today. Delivering Windows as a Service and a Free Upgrade to Windows 10Today was a monumental day for us on the Windows team because we shared our desire to redefine the relationship we have with you – our customers. We announced that a free upgrade for Windows 10 will be made available to customers running Windows 7, Windows 8.1, and Windows Phone 8.1 who upgrade in the first year after launch.* This is more than a one-time upgrade: once a Windows device is upgraded to Windows 10, we will continue to keep it current for the supported lifetime of the device – at no additional charge. With Windows 10, the experience will evolve and get even better over time. We’ll deliver new features when they’re ready, not waiting for the next major release. We think of Windows as a Service – in fact, one could reasonably think of Windows in the next couple of years as one of the largest Internet services on the planet. And just like any Internet service, the idea of asking “What version are you on?” will cease to make sense – which is great news for our Windows developers. With universal Windows apps that work across the entire device family, developers can build one app that targets the broadest range of devices – including the PC, tablet, phone, Xbox, the Internet of Things, and more. For our enterprise customers, we’ll continue to support the way many of them work today, with long-term servicing for their mission critical environments. With Windows 10, a best practice we recommend for many enterprise devices is to connect to Windows Update and be kept up-to-date with the latest security and productivity improvements as soon as they are available. You can learn more about our commitment to enterprises here, with much more to come in the following months. Everything about Windows 10 – the experiences, delivering it as a service and the free upgrade – means ongoing value to all our customers. The new generation of Windows is a commitment—a commitment to liberate people from technology and enable them to do great things. New Windows 10 ExperiencesTogether with our Windows Insiders, we’re well way on our way to making Windows 10 the largest-ever open collaborative development effort Microsoft has ever shipped. Since we launched the Windows Insider Program in September, we’ve been joined by 1.7 million Windows Insiders, who have delivered over 800,000 pieces of feedback. We are truly co-creating the future of Windows with you and we’re humbled by your valuable role in this new open development process. Today, we shared new details on the experience coming to Windows 10, including: Cortana, Microsoft’s personal digital assistant, comes to PC and tablet, for the first time with Windows 10. Cortana learns your preferences to provide relevant recommendations, fast access to information, and important reminders. Interaction is natural and easy via talking or typing, with advanced features to control Cortana for more trustworthiness and transparency. Windows 10 for phones and tablets – Windows 10 for phones and small tablets features a fast, fluid and familiar experience that seamlessly interacts with your PC. A new web experience for Windows 10 – Code-named “Project Spartan,” the next generation browser was built with greater interoperability, reliability and discoverability, with a new look and feel built just for Windows 10. Advanced features include the ability to annotate by keyboard or pen directly on the webpage and easily share with friends, a reading view that is distraction free, displaying the article in a simplified layout for a great reading experience for Web articles online and offline, and the integration of Cortana for finding and doing things online faster. Office universal apps on Windows 10 offer a consistent, touch-first experience across phone, tablet and PC with new versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote and Outlook. Designed from the ground up to run on Windows, you can easily create and edit Word documents, annotate slides in real-time with new inking features or easily present PowerPoint presentations, and with new touch-first controls in Excel you can create or update spreadsheets without a keyboard or mouse. The next version of the Office desktop suite is also currently in development, more on this in the coming months. New universal applications will ship with Windows 10, offering innovative new experience applications, consistent across the device continuum, for Photos, Videos, Music, Maps, People & Messaging, and Mail & Calendar. These built-in apps have an updated design that look and feel the same from app to app and device to device. Content is stored and synced through OneDrive, enabling you to start something on one device and continue it on another. via > blog.windows.com

show me a screenshot of where you copied the operating system files to please

Windows 8.1 Enterprise Evaluation in Windows 8.1 Enterprise Evaluation x64 install.wim can't be right, look at the path, the wim will generally always be called install.wim

i didn't use that version so I don't know, but if you can get your hands on the Enterprise ISO you should see the same thing as I did.

copy the entire contents of your Windows 8.1 with update extracted iso to E:\Source\Operating Systems\Windows 8.1 x64 or whatever your path is, they try running the script again

and did you copy the operating system source files to the required path before running the script above ?

sorry, what problem do you have exactly ?

This is version 4.0 of the original windows-noob FrontEnd HTA, and this time it has evolved to support System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager using UEFI (or legacy capable) hardware running Windows 8.1 Enterprise with Update. For the purpose of documenting the history of this HTA I'll list the previous versions below and which version of Configuration Manager with MDT Integration they were designed to work with: Ver 1. - windows-noob FrontEnd HTA (Configuration Manager 2007 R2 & MDT 2010 update 1) Ver 2. - The BitLocker FrontEnd HTA (Configuration Manager 2007 R2 & MDT 2010 update 1) Ver 3. - The CM12 BitLocker FrontEnd HTA (Configuration Manager 2012 R2 & MDT 2012 update 1) The key point of this FrontEnd that makes it stand out from others is that it allows you to Backup, Reinstall or do New Computer scenarios on BitLocker encrypted UEFI computers while still in WinPE. Update: June 25th, 2015. I've added the ability to BitLocker Hyper-V Virtual Machines (Generation 2) during a New Computer scenario, see this post for details. Let's take a look at the main features. The FrontEnd has tabs to allow you to easily navigate through the options. In each tab are further options which can be enabled via checkboxes or via drop down menus or other clickable buttons. The About tab In the About tab (default view) you get to see some information about the frontend itself, and if the computer name (detected by the webservice) is already in AD, if it is it will be highlighted in blue as shown below. If the computer is not in AD then you'll be informed of the fact with a nice red colour and a message as shown below. In addition you can optionally enter a username which will also be checked against AD membership via a web service. The username entered must be entered as simply the username, do not specify a domain name or \ infront of the username as this will generate an error. Below you can see what happens when the user name provided is not detected in AD. and below you can see when the user is detected in AD The username entered here will become the Primary user of the computer and if enabled in the task sequence, they will become the local administrator of that computer. The Backup tab The backup tab allows you to perform quick or extensive disc checking on the disc in cases where you feel there may be problems with the disc that you'd like to be fixed before backing it up. You have the ability to do a Full WIM backup of the computer which can either be stored locally on that computer or on a network share, the network share (and sub folder) are defined in the task sequence in the following steps: Finally, you can backup the User state to a network share called USMTStores by choosing the last option, xcopy to network. Once this user state is backed up to the network you'll be informed of the progress and then the task sequence will shutdown the computer. This captured state can be restored later on another computer using the New Computer tab via the State Restore Options drop down menu. The Reinstall tab The Reinstall tab allows you to reinstall the computer with Windows 8.1 with update while retaining the users data using hard linking. In addition, you can choose to change the regional and language options via the two drop down menus. In addition to the above, you can select to install the System Center Endpoint Protection antivirus client agent and enable BitLocker. The New Computer tab The New Computer tab is where you'll want to do your New Computer installations, and it offers you the same options as the Reinstall scenario, but in addition, you can specify the encryption level (algorithm) that BitLocker uses. In addition, you can use the State Restore Options drop down menu to select the type of restore you want to achieve, if you select SMP (State Migration Point) then you should have backed up (captured) user data to the SMP from a source computer beforehand. In addition to restoring from the SMP, you can choose to restore previously backed up User state (via the xcopy to network backup option) by selecting the profile name listed. The tools tab This tab provides some tools to help the operator view useful information about the computer they are working on, or to for example open up SMSTS.LOG via the CMTrace tool, or to open a cmd prompt for troubleshooting. In addition you can click on the Deployment Info icon to see detailed information about the computer, including whether it is in an encrypted state or not. Finally, you can use the top three boxes to search for computer names, which if found will be shown in the drop down menu, and from there you can select one, and then click on Make Association button, this will make an association with the computer you are currently using and the target you selected. Tip: you can verify this association via the User State Migration node in Assets and Compliance in the System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager console as shown below. Note: If you like to experiment, then after making an association above, go back to the Backup tab, and without selecting anything in Backup options, click on Proceed. This is an experimental feature still in development so your results may vary. What about the rest of the features The task sequence and associated scripts do more than the above, and below I've listed the main features. detects if there is no power cord plugged in to your laptop and alerts you of the fact. detects if the hardware is Surface Pro 3 and installs the driver package if no TPM is found it disables the BitLocker capability in the HTA allows you to do Reinstall computer scenarios on Hyperv enabled Gen 2 virtual machines with BitLocker. allows you to Notify the end user if the task sequence was successful or unsuccessful creates a REG key upon successful task sequence completion and adds it to the registry creates a text file in c:\ with the DATE and TIME to demonstrate successful task sequence copies CMTrace.exe to the Windows\ of the OS drive. Download the HTA Ok now that you've seen the above you'll no-doubt want to try it, trust me it's worth it, but it's not for the faint hearted. For that reason I'll produce a Part 2 of this guide which will help you with installation of the bits and pieces. The CM12 UEFI BitLocker HTA.zip Unzip the contents, you'll find a ZIP file within, you should import that as a Task Sequence in System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager. Once done you cannot save the task sequence until you satisfy all the missing packages it references and they are listed in the rough guide. You will need the following in place before trying to use the HTA to it's full potential. * Configuration Manager 2012 R2 * MDT 2013 integrated with Configuration Manager 2012 * Language packs for the Appropriate Operating System * Maik Kosters Web Services (version 7.3) * MBAM Server 2.0 (or greater) to store and manage the BitLocker encryption recovery keys The other two folders should be used as packages that are referenced in the task sequence. Please review Part 2 for installation and setup instructions or if you cant wait, review the Rough Guide (it's rough, trust me) text file included in the download zip. Related Reading The CM12 UEFI BitLocker Frontend HTA - Part 2. Installation - https://www.windows-noob.com/forums/topic/11900-the-cm12-uefi-bitlocker-frontend-hta-part-2-installation/ CM12 in a Lab - How can I Enable BitLocker on Hyper-v Gen 2 virtual machines during OSD using System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager ? CM12 in a Lab - How can I reinstall BitLockered UEFI computers using network boot and System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager ? Thanks ! I want to say thanks to my beta testers Eswar Koneti, Peter van Der Woude and Paul Winstanley for their support during this development.

it all depends on your applications detection method as to whether it will redeploy or not on those systems that already have it, so why are you using the legacy package model instead of the application model

do you mean you created a task sequence and deployed it to the collection or you deployed a package to the collection or you deployed an application to the collection either way, as long as the deployment settings don't somehow exclude the new computers, then they should also get the package once added to the collection.

you will need to start customizing your USMT xml files to capture the data that you want and test and verify it on virtual machines before doing the migration.

hi bruno can you link to the sript in question or post it here

the msi is something called Surface Platform Support and it shows up in Programs and Features after being installed, but apart from that I'm not sure what it does and yes you can install it using a standard package method, it's just a msiexec /i bla.msi /q

The next chapter of Windows 10 will be streamed live on January 21st and I'm sure we are all looking forward to seeing what is coming next and what has changed. Microsoft has already tweeted this screenshot to get us alerted to how you can separate work and play with Windows 10 and this one to show how you can keep tabs on your apps don't forget the date, January 21st. Be there, or be square ! http://news.microsoft.com/windows10story/

Introduction Microsoft released new updated drivers for the Surface Pro 3 yesterday and you can read about what those driver updates contained here. Here's a breakdown of what those driver versions are: Surface Pro UEFI update (v3.11.450.0) adds support for updated HD Graphics Family driver. HD Graphics Family driver update (v10.18.14.4029) enhances display stability and performance, improves user experience when using Miracast adapters. Improves compatibility with DisplayPort monitors and daisy chaining. Wireless Network Controller and Bluetooth driver update (v15.68.3073.151) addresses connectivity issues while Hyper-V is enabled. Adds an advanced feature to control the 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz band preference. Surface Home Button driver update (v2.0.1179.0) ensures compatibility with the Surface Hub app. Microsoft Docking Station Audio Device driver update (v1.31.35.7) improves the user experience while using the Surface Pro 3 Docking Station so that sound is available when a speaker is not connected to the docking station. Last year I blogged about automating the deployment of the Microsoft Surface Pro 3 using MDT 2013 and PowerShell, the original blogpost is here and I updated it in November with a newer version of the script here. Now that there are new drivers available, I've modified the PowerShell script to download and install them including the new MSI file. It creates the deployment share with a new name (MDTDeploy) instead of the default, you can always configure it as you wish. For those of you that don't know, this script is totally automated and builds a complete MDT 2013 deployment solution for deploying the Surface Pro 3 with all drivers included from Microsoft right up to January 2015, all you have to provide is Windows 8.1 x64 Update source files and optionally Office 365. Here's the new updated script. Setup MDT 2013 for Microsoft Surface Pro 3 - January 2015.zip This is what it looks like when running Once complete, it should look like this, scroll up to see if there are any errors in red, if so, fix them, The script will have downloaded several new drivers to your source path And those drivers are automatically imported into the Deployment Workbench. Below you can see the updated Intel HD Graphics driver is shown. and below is what you'll see when you UEFI network boot your Surface Pro 3 computers Prompted to change the name Prompted whether you want the optional Applications or not and off it goes with the automated deployment Please test this out and let me know how it went ! cheers niall

i'd suggest a call to Microsoft CSS assuming you are already on R2 CU3

look at the smsts.log on the client computer that failed, you cannot restart a failed task sequence, you have to fix the issue then start again

Here’s a quick post to let you know that I’ll be speaking at a System Center Configuration Manager event in Zurich, February 9th, for the Switzerland User Group, the details are here. There are other cool speakers like Kenny Buntinx and Tim De Keukelaere amongst others. The sessions I’ll host are shown below:- 10.15-11.15 Migrating bitlockered uefi devices Security related Settings Migrating BitLockered UEFI computers using network boot and System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager – See more at: http://configmgr.ch/cmce-r2/#sthash.kpvMGRkD.dpuf 14.45-15.45 Deploying Windows 8.1 x64 to the Microsoft Surface Pro 3 with Configuration Manager 2012 R2 and MDT 2013 Deploying Windows 8.1 x64 to the Microsoft Surface Pro 3 with Configuration Manager 2012 R2 and MDT 2013 – See more at: http://configmgr.ch/cmce-r2/#sthash.kpvMGRkD.dpuf 16.00-17.00 Interview about Windows Noob and the Website Behind. Interview with Niall abut his awesome Windows-noob.com website the Forum and the Guides – See more at: http://configmgr.ch/cmce-r2/#sthash.kpvMGRkD.dpuf If you are interested in the content above, and are in the area on the 9th of February then do please sign up now ! cheers niall

not mine, did you see how I added the drivers in this video ? http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/Surface-Pro-3-Deployment

the hint is in the error message it can't find pnputil if you are using a 64 bit os (and the SP3 is 64bit) then use C:\Windows\Sysnative\pnputil.exe as the path cheers niall