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sounds like it's not completing the task sequence correctly, and possibly the client agent is not getting installed properly during the task sequence, i'd start by focusing on smsts*.log and see what it reveals for the Setup Windows and ConfigMgr step...

the other guides are on hold at the moment while i'm busy at work, if i get time and motivated i'll continue with them, please be patient :) as regards your errors... it translates to Item not found Source: System Center Configuration Manager ----- and Invalid namespace Source: Windows Management (WMI) ----- so what are you trying to do exactly, what is the context here ? probably better to raise a separate topic describing the issue and what you are trying to do.

great, if you see any more code that needs fixing let me know, thanks for your help.

ok i've figured it out, the lines with invisible characters have the code set to 'html' where they should be set to 'no syntax highlighting'

ok this is weird, i've looked at the first command in part 3 of step 4, i copied the text, and pasted it into notepad++ and even in ansi it shows Correctly ! but your paste has the hidden characters... so what's going on, it looks fine to me now without me making any change, what browser are you using and how are you copying/pasting the text ? here i copy the original command line and paste it into notepad ++, and there are no hidden characters !

ok thanks, i'll fix it today, i can see the characters when switching to Ansi in NotePad++, so are these the characters you are referring to ? I've no idea how they ended up there, maybe it's the forum software...

thank you ! I put a ton of effort into creating it. I've seen this before too, and i thought i fixed all code in the 8 part series, if you could point me to the commands that you copied the code from i'll verify them again (with notepad++)

I hadn't planned on it, but maybe in a later guide.

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check your site server to see what adk is installed, as regards the boot loop, next time it get's to winpe, press f8 and browse C:\ for the smsts.log file(s)

how are your boundaries set up, it seems like the client doesn't think it matches to any boundary

what version of windows 10 are you deploying and with what ADK ?. you can always pxe boot again to grab the logs from the computer while in winpe.

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does the unattend.xml left in c:\windows\panther\unattend give any clues ?

yes as long as there is a service called GenerateName

which webservice are you using ? do the webservice url(s) match those in the ini file above, if not then you must amend it accordingly, the lines that have a ; in front of them are merely comments, they are not actually used

thanks for the feedback ?

all of it

you need to paste in YOUR OID which you created in step 4 into the file, so that it looks pretty much like what I've shown you, other than it will have YOUR OID and not MINE. you might want to change the pki cps url also to point to your url cheers niall

thanks the important bit is... " Once done, paste in the OID created in Step 4 and then save the file as C:\Windows\CAPolicy.inf. "

reinstall is not a backup, so you must be doing something wrong. If i have time tomorrow i'll take a look at the logs, sorry but i've had a really long day today...

dont confuse the ConfigMgr client policy (default 60 minutes) with the MBAM client check policy (default 90 minutes). Full disk encryption always takes time, that's the way it is, the only 'fast' encryption is something called used space only, which you can do with OSD task sequences with a Pre-Provision BitLocker step during operating system deployment. And for laptops yes connect power so it doesn't power off during encryption.

you can download the xml file in the original blogpost here https://www.windows-noob.com/forums/applications/core/interface/file/attachment.php?id=14650

and what have you configured your client policy to refresh at ? the default is 60 minutes for configmgr client policy, and 90 minutes for the mbam policy checks triggering machine policy manually will check immediately