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Transport error; failed to connect, message: 'The SMS Provider reported an erro did you open the firewall ? disable the firewall as a test does it help ?

you need to target your clients with the patch for CU1 (check in packages it's there)

it's not broken ! it's a design change, to see how to use the new method read this post, you can always add an operating system installer by editing the task sequence after it's created if you really want to use setup.exe

you do the discovery where you have your management points and that is at the primary, the CAS doesn't have a management point or clients connected to it directly so theres nothing to discover there

the client needs to be on the same subnet if you want PXE to work, is it ?

are you planning on deploying the Configuration Manager client via the SUP or not ? that is why we create the Group Policy

cool, are you going to tech-ed europe ? i'll be staffing there again this year

what have you tried to fix this ?

did the above work for you ?

does the above problem happen every day the same way or just this once ? if you reboot the client does it behave any differently ?

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great work Peter ! feel free to add a video of it here too

download the task sequence in that hta i linked to, and look at how the task sequence checks for variables and runs (or doesnt run) groups/steps based on the results

does this help ? http://www.niallbrady.com/2013/03/20/pxe-boot-failure-after-upgrading-to-system-center-2012-configuration-manager-service-pack-1/ if not at which point did your failure occur and did you follow my advice exactly ?

if you want to add anything into the task sequence then you can do so by using a combination of Set Task Sequence variable steps and on the options tab of (for example) a Run Command Line, you check for the value of the variable I don't do things the way you are doing it via a customsettings.ini, i usually popup a HTA to 'offer' the choices to the technicians, you can make that as simple or complex as you wish, have you looked at this yet ?

and the Configuraiton Manager Database is on db1 ?

for 1 see this post.... for enabling bitlocker, it worked fine for me, where is yours failing ? are you using the same ts as me or have you changed it

thanks for the update, did you not verify it like I advised in Step 4 ?

did you follow my guides EXACTLY, as the surface will only boot from a FAT formatted USB key....

are you creating the USB media from CM12 ? or are you creating CD/ISO media and transferring it to the USB key ?

have you looked at importing any of the baselines created by Microsoft Security Compliance Manager ? there are a whole bunch of bitlocker related baselines that you can easily export from SCM and then import them into Configuration Manager

yes no problem

can you attach the entire smsts.log please

you could use client notification to force machine policy retrieval which should do what you want

yup, you are in luck, here's how to do it http://www.windows-noob.com/forums/index.php?/topic/7945-using-system-center-2012-configuration-manager-part-12-connecting-powershell-and-building-a-reference-image-of-windows-8-with-net-35/