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add the drivers back and then attach the smsts.log file here please of the failed deployment

impossible to say without knowing what infrastructure you have, what is the bandwidth (line) between the primary and the site in london ? when the content failed, what was the failure message ? hint the logs on the site server will help you to determine this, also have you configured any bandwidth settings on the remote dp, see step 6 here

please don't send me PM's, everyone does that thinking they are the only person sending me PMs and as a result I get many... the answer is here, follow that guide and you'll have a standalone primary, then install a secondary after you are done and all is good.

yes of course you can, that would be a standalone primary scenario (with secondary sites underneath).

are you using MDT only or Configuration Manager with MDT integrated ? if the latter then have you seen this yet, it does refresh scenario no problem.

why would you specify the time ? can you show me a screenshot of your detection rule...

first things first have you verified on the clients that the configuration manager client itself has installed correctly ? (check the ccmsetup.log file on the clients in the ccmsetup folder), do all the actions appear in the actions tab ? does it get policy ? if it's a workgroup computer is it approved ?

how about http://www.potentengineer.com/powershell-osd-frontend-with-windows-forms/

are you saying that if you include visio that it adds the one update listed above, or all of them ?

Windows XP is going EOL in April so why are you concerned about deploying it ? also with System Center 2012 Configuration Manager R2 there is no native support for Windows XP via OSD, to deploy XP you'd need to import a Win PE 3.1 or WinPE 4.0 boot image..

great that you spotted the error

post the new logs.

here's the failure which causes the task sequence to fail and that's failing because you are trying to delete something on the current user registry hive, which cannot work as the current user is SYSTEM, if you want to edit all users registry settings then mount the registry instead and make changes to the default User registry hive then unmount it and it will apply those settings to all users

attach the smsts*.log file from C:\windows\ccm\logs and we'll take a look

the smsts.log will reveal it

please explain what those errors were so that the next person searching on the same topic knows what to look out for

correct, also to note the mbam client can store the key in AD also

in packages choose Create Package From Definition and select your client package listed in the window *choose the latest option from the list*, select always obtain source files from ...and then select Network Path (UNC name) as the type and click on browse, browse to your sites SMS directory (SMS_xxx where XXX=the SMS site code) eg: \\server\sms_XXX\Client continue through the wizard choosing 'no program', once done, distribute to your distribution points, and use that client package in your task sequences, is that enough info ?

are the clients confirmed working and in the collection where the software updates are targeted to ?

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yes you can store the keys in mbam (an SQL database) and AD at the same time, when enabling bitlocker in the task sequence using the built in step you can choose to store the key in AD, then later in the task sequence you install the mbam client and it stores the key in it's database, as it can take up to 90 minutes (unless you add the nostartupdelay reg key) for MBAM to store its key in the db, having a backup copy in AD is a good idea.

correct, assuming of course that the Configuration Manager site server has appropriate permissions to write to the System Management container in AD

great stuff and i'm glad you've got it all sorted now

what version of Configuration Manager and CU level are you at and how long have you tried waiting ?

check what its copying is it copying every package on your share ?