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a. the patch tuesday scenario is already covered in this part b. use SCUP to deploy 3rd party updates

to use this ability both your site server and clients need to be upgraded to Service Pack 1, please see the comment at the bottom of this post here for details

Configuration Manager 2007 does not support the deployment of Windows 8, to do that use MDT 2012 update 1 standalone, or use Configuration Manager 2012 Sp1

<p>totally agree with Peter, while it may work it's not supported and that could also mean that things you don't expect happen..</p>

are you using a hierarchy of CAS plus Primary ? or just a standalone

you can do it whatever way works best for you, i'm only showing you the way I do it, if your method works, then use it (and blog it !), i'm happy to link to it here.

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and the most likely candidate for the package is the configmgr client upgrade package, simply create another one (package from definition) and all will be good

thanks, it means a lot to read words like these

check your task sequence deployment, and the distribution point options what is it set to (download or access) ?

thanks, always appreciated to hear that, the new one will run by itself on a schedule, you can run now if you want it to run immediately however, and yes you leave it enabled

you posted your question on another topic which wasn't anything to do with RIS, so i've moved your post - this is the RIS section, so browse it and you'll find your answer.

yes, if you want to target one computer with specific settings for that computer only then simply create a collection for that one computer, place the computer in that collection and target that collection with a custom antimalware policy it seems a bit overkill though, why the need ?

use the one from the RC version it should work fine, i will be covering deploying operating systems in Configuration Manager 2012 Service Pack 1 soon however.

are you really using SCCM 2012 rc ? configuration manager 2012 is already released to RTM and to SP1 level

Policy Name=Antimalware Policy is how your Policy will be listed as and from SP1, unfortunately due to the client side merge changes we no longer see the antimalware policy name listed via the Client side gui, instead it will list the generic Antimalware Policy to see a list of which policies are applied to the machine you can check the registry see screenshot HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\CCM\EPAgent\LastAppliedPolicy or use a reg query statement like so reg query HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\CCM\EPAgent\LastAppliedPolicy /f 2 /d

if your component status is OK then i'd say you have no problems are you choosing show messages all like below and then choose last 1 day ?

show us a screenshot of your component logs that are critical, you can right click any of them and view the logs to see why it's marked as critical.

also take a look at the bitlocker frontend HTA which has scripts to detect if the drive is encrypted or not.

if it's critical then examine the site component logs to see what the problems are, have you tried doing that >?

post your smsts.log and i'll take a look which version of MDT have you integrated ?

yes as long as the computer is in the collection they are deployed to, and as long as the task sequences were deployed with a purpose of Available (optional) and not Required (mandatory)

as SP1 is now generally available then I would only install it with SP1 from the start unless a customer had a very good reason not to use SP1.

did you reboot the cas and try again ? did you call Microsoft yet ?