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you could use standalone media (usb or cd/dvd)

can you attach your smsts.log please so i can take a look

well you can prove that nic drivers are needed by opening a command prompt during OSD just before the setup windows and configmgr step, does it have an ip address, if so good, what about after the reboot after setup windows and configmgr, if it has no ip at this point then there's your problem as it's then that it tries to join the domain. why not use hyperV. no network drivers are needed at all for hyperV and it's free with Windows 8, Windows 8.1

it's no problem, you can always decide which index of the captured image (1 or 2) you wish to apply in the Apply Operating System step.

did you deploy both task sequences ?

yes you'll need drivers as Windows 7 requires lots of drivers on modern hardware, examine the SMSTS.log file to find out why your virtual machine is failing, could be nic driver related, also check c:\windows\debug\netsetup.log to see why domain join failed, a local dp would be advantageous, and you should use separate Apply Driver Package steps which are WMI based to target the correct hardware with the correct drivers, see this post. how can I target applications (and drivers) to specific hardware? target hardware

easy, use x86 to capture (scanstate) and x64 to restore (loadstate) in terms of USMT.

interesting i havn't seen this behaviour, right now i'm using the bitlocker frontend HTA (which incorporates this functionality), and i've not noticed any padlocks, can you show me a screenshot and are you using Configuration Manager 2012 or 2007 for this ?

same problem, i'll dig into it tomorrow and come back to you...

ok i got the same failure, i guess that was one of those things i didn't test, I've copied the CheckDriveLetter and set OSPART step to be the first step in the Backup Local group, then replaced all references to C: with %OSPART%, i'll test it now and report back in a few minutes.

i'll do a quick test of the backup functionality that you are using and come back to you.

what version of mdt are you using ? the error doesnt tell me much, i'd prefer to see the whole smsts.log so that i can see what has succeeded or failed prior to this.. is your computername being detected correctly by the webservice a few steps up ? that's where the name of the backup file is located and that could be the cause of your error

can you attach the smsts.log so i can see exactly where it's failing

raise a ticket with Microsoft CSS and see what they advise

where is the log file ? i dont see it anywhere

glad to here it !

I'm curious why you want to temporarily disable it, can you share the reason ? you could uninstall it using scepinstall.exe /u /s then reinstall it when needed.

well the other option is to create two deployments one with everything targeting all but your excluded computers, and the other with everything but ONE update, targeting only your 'excluded' computers.

in the collection that has software updates deployed to it, right click, choose Properties, click on the Membership Rules tab, then in the Add Rule drop down menu, choose Exclude Collection, and point it to the collection containing computers you want to exclude from this deployment

well you'll need to change USMTvalue to UDdir, the correct values should be in the R2 download I included (it has all the fixes in it), which reminds me, why haven't you upgraded to R2 ?

hi and welcome ! what we need to troubleshoot this is your smsts.log file, you'll find it in c:\windows\ccm\smstslog\smsts.log when it fails

ok and you have integrated MDT 2012 with Configuration Manager ? please post a screenshot of the exact error you see when you try to import

which of the files are you trying to import exactly ? and what version of Configuration Manager are you using ?

try twitter, it's pretty 'live', follow most the the Configuration Manager MVP's and you'll most likely get answers

thanks ! don't worry about the import errors they are normal as you don't have those packages (or you do and you just need to change the steps to point to them) here's a list of references in my task sequence