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for 1. try maik kosters webservices to import the computer into sccm via a HTA frontend for 2. just make sure the ts's are advertised to computers os that you know you dont have in your organisation, eg: windows 2000, that way the advert will never show up in RAP (windows) but will show up via PXE boot

if you remove the 'use unattended... file' setting in apply operating system image step, what happens ?

ok and when you PXE boot what ip address are you getting, is it within your protected boundary ?

hopefully you'll post how you get on with it after you've got it working i think the /mu switch is one to look at though

post your smsts.log file here, usually 0x00000001 means file not found or similar...

using Multiple Task Sequences via PXE, PXE boot to a task sequence menu choice is sometimes a good thing

also take a look at this post http://www.myitforum.com/forums/DCM-Item-and-Baseline-Settings-Report-m217896.aspx i dont think dcm will read whats in your file, it will jsut tell you if the file exists or not, (compliant or not) but i could be wrong... here are links to the DCM downloads http://pinpoint.microsoft.com/en-US/systemcenter/managementpackcatalog

give me more details of this how is the secondary site setup and what roles are installed on it

post your smsts.log file here and we'll take a look, you'll need to enable f8 support for that

when i get a chance i'll do up some guides for DCM, in the meantime does this help ? http://msmvps.com/blogs/daniel/archive/2008/03/31/using-sccm-dcm-to-verify-the-gpo-compliance.aspx

hi there, yes it does unfortunately the process would be as above, create an association for it, then boot it, let it osd as normal and in the task sequence it'll have the restore user state steps built in and magically restore the data, if its unknown then it won't have an association, you could of course, deploy the os to an unknown computer, then once it's known, create a computer association, then get the data from the source and finally advertise what i'd call a 'loadstate' task sequence to it, which will restore that users data, we are working through how best to do this ourselves, you might want to take a look at webservices to script the computer association via a HTA at boot time for the techs., here's a good link to start with

funny that, i was going to ask you to try another port but you beat me to it, perhaps the port has been blocked/reconfigured/broken by a new firewall gpo, or on the switch side by a port change ?

do you mean that the task sequence is appearing in the Run Advertised programs ? and nothing happens when you click on it or what ?

from Johans blog Some time ago I came across the MigRecover Utility for Microsoft’s Windows Easy Transfer (thanks Calle Malmstrom for the tip!), It works great for extracting data from a standard USMT 4 store as well. There is also a version for USMT 3. The syntax is quite simple: MigRecover.exe [/i:] [/e:] [/v] [password] So for extracting all files in the C:\MigData\PC0003\USMT.MIG store to D:\Tmp you would use the following command: MigRecover.exe /i:*.* C:\MigData\PC0003\USMT.MIG D:\Tmp For download and additional info: http://www.visser.com.au/blog/migrecover-for-microsofts-windows-easy-transfer / Johan

first of all have you defined any active directory discovery methods ? this post will give you some ideas of achieving what you want http://www.windows-noob.com/forums/index.php?/topic/892-deploy-software-through-ad-groups-linked-to-collections-in-sccm/

i tested on windows 7 using ie8 with no problems like you had, can you confirm its not cookie related or something (av software perhaps ?)

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Kinom's example will set the resolution in the OS not in PE, in PE you can use SETRES.exe then copy that file to your MDT scripts folder (in the mdt files package), once done create a step called Use Toolkit package before the set screen resolution step, dont forget to update your Distribution Points with a new copy of the MDT files package after doing this, you could of course create a separate package for the program setres.exe and add a step to use that package prior to the next line... create a run command line task in your task sequence call Set Screen Resolution that has a command line which reads cmd /c "%scriptroot%\SETRES" h1024 v768 b16 done !

ok then what does the distrmgr.log say for that dp ? can you test disabling av on the dp just to see if it IS having an effect on package distribution ?

can you take a look at this page and see did you miss anything ? are you certain that the console you are running from has R2 installed on it ?

is R2 installed ?

is there any antivirus software on that remote dp ? try disabling it to see if it helps ?. how is BITS configured ?

that is really bizarre, it works fine for me here... what browser are you using ? can you take a screenshot of it please ?

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well then it must be part of your task sequence somehow, can i see a screenshot of this part or can you export the task sequence to an xml file and upload it here