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hi, you posted this in Part 3 of the guides which is all about discovery methods and boundaries and nothing to do with your question, therefore i've pulled your post and raised it as a separate question (which is the right way of doing things...) cheers niall

when learning Configuration Manager having a lab to mess with is a wonderful thing indeed, that way you can test your theories without affecting production, I've been to places where they've had the following setup Production Pre-Production Lab and all three were separate anyhow, if the poster wants to test via psexec, then sure why not, but i still think he won't get the information he needs that he'd get in a lab, deploying test packages in a production environment is fine if you know what you are doing, but it's dangerous indeed if you don't. One last point, when people google/bing this topic in the furture they'll find this link to setup a lab get confused about what to do.. the topic after all was "Test Lab Setup For Software Deployment Troubleshooting..."

hi Garth that will only show him how apps can install using the system account it wont show him how to test the new features of the application model such as dependencies etc, so if simple application installation is all he needs it may be enough, but if he wants to understand how applications are created, targeted, deployed, managed, then he'll need a proper lab

these are the main guides, fyi, i'm sure it'll cover most of what you need for now... http://www.windows-noob.com/forums/index.php?/topic/4045-system-center-2012-configuration-manager-step-by-step-guides/

if you want an application to install and you want it to install any prerequisite applications first, then you have to make them dependencies in the applications deployment type your screenshots are of a PACKAGE and that is the legacy way of doing things in Configuration Manager, take a look at this post to learn how to create an Application (which allows for dependencies...)

just start off with two servers, one for Active Directory (dns and dhcp) and one for CM12, if you want some tips on setting up AD then look at this old post, it'll help (steps 1 and 2 are all you need pretty much), that was for server 2008 but it'll give you some ideas. once AD is setup install CM12 using the guides, once that is done, work your way through the guides as it'll teach you to deploy Windows 7 (or 8) and that's how you create your clients. as always, if you are setting things up and stuck post here and i'll help, i can do teamviewer too cheers niall

"At the end of my 'install task sequence' I do a sysprep&shutdown so users can choose their own username, etc." huh, i don't get what you mean by this, are you sysprepping your Deploy task sequence ? the only sysprep that should happen is in the capture image, not the other way around

glad to hear that you figured it out !

well you can use hyperv in Windows 8.1 to create virtual machines for this lab on a reasonably new laptop/desktop with lots of ram (16gb) create a Private network and add your vm's in there, that way your production network won't be affected in any way if you want help with that i can help no problem via teamviewer, just setup hyperv on a machine and be ready to rock

in the lab it's SCEP only, where did you see errors exactly ?

have you looked at this post, http://www.windows-noob.com/forums/index.php?/topic/5683-using-system-center-2012-configuration-manager-part-5-adding-wsus-adding-the-sup-role-deploying-the-configuration-manager-client-agent/ I've setup my hierarchy lab that way and the software updates worked just fine as you can see by later guides in that series shown below http://www.windows-noob.com/forums/index.php?/topic/4045-system-center-2012-configuration-manager-step-by-step-guides/

Windows 9, Threshold, or the 'next version of Windows', whatever you want to call it there's an invite only event happening in San Francisco on September 30th where Microsoft will showcase a technology preview version of 'the next release of Windows...'. If you didn't get the invite don't feel too bad, neither did we, however if previous events are anything to go by it'll more than likely by broadcast live via the web also (which is good news for us). This technology preview will probably focus on key areas that had enterprises shunning Windows 8, most noticeably the 'missing start menu'. For more info about the even have a look at the following links, ZDNet - http://www.zdnet.com/microsoft-invites-media-to-meet-the-next-version-of-windows-7000033210/#ftag=RSS0966a21 The Verge - http://www.theverge.com/2014/9/15/6151417/windows-9-event-september-30th-san-francisco Networkworld - http://www.networkworld.com/article/2684094/windows/microsoft-sets-windows-9-reveal-for-sept-30.html

have you seen my post about the Surface 3 here ? I did not see the behaviour you noticed for the nic drivers, and i covered that in detail in my post I didn't see the bitlocker issue as I'm setting the registry keys as part of mbam client agent installation, however I will do up a post to cover it, thanks for the reminder http://www.windows-noob.com/forums/index.php?/topic/11247-how-can-i-deploy-windows-81-x64-to-the-microsoft-surface-pro-3-using-system-center-2012-r2-configuration-manager

no it's two servers, one for AD (active directory) and one for Configuration Manager, everything outside of that (other vm's) are your clients etc...

what does your netsetup.log file say (c:\windows\debug) ? you need to reenable the apply network settings step, it's used for joining the domain... "<![LOG[The action (Apply Network Settings) has been skipped because it is disabled]

probably missing network drivers and rebooting, what hardware are you booting, is it legacy mode or uefi mode, have you added any network drivers for that hardware to your boot wim as described in this post.

try redistributing both architecture boot images to your distribution points

i'm using the built in task, Enable BitLocker from Configuration Manager, so havn't run into what you are trying yet, have you checked for an updated version of MDT and/or read the release notes known issues...

so just run one of them and call the other script from within that one. Dim objShell Set objShell = Wscript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell") objShell.Run "WinPe_TimeSync.vbs" ' Using Set is mandatory Set objShell = Nothing

ok is it working then ?

if you follow either of the main guides above you'll be in a fairly good place lab wise to test things, there's two choices, standalone or hierarchy, so choose the one that suits your environment, a standalone primary should be plenty for most people, if you do decide to set this up then two virtual machines is all you'll need in hyperv or vmware, i'm happy to help you with setting it up cheers niall

i've tested multiple commands via a prestart such as cmd.exe /c echo 192.168.0.1 p01.domain.lab.local >> x:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts & cmd.exe /c echo 192.168.0.2 p02.domain.lab.local >> x:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts however in the guide above we are calling a script file using cscript.exe, how did you attempt to use the '&' symbol here ? you could try a simple test such as below, I've verified it works just fine calling the scripts in the order provided. cmd.exe /c cscript.exe prestart1.vbs & cscript.exe prestart2.vbs

and what have you set the OSDBitlockerMode task sequence varialble to ?

ok can you show me a screenshot of your Enable bitlocker step in the task sequence please.

well what does your smsts.log file reveal for the enable bitlocker steps ?