jpjeffery

Nearly. I'm logged on to the server as domain Administrator. I rebooted the server.

It wasn't. I added it this afternoon after seeing yourt last post. Rebooted the server. No change: The error persists.

Thanks for your reply. I'm logged on as our domain Administrator account. Everything being built is on the same box, apart from the WSUS server which is separate. I've not done much WSUS configuration since I'm currently only interested in the OS deployment, rather than patch deployment.

Well, first, congratulations on this excellent guide. It's helped me a lot (with a deadline of rolling out Windows 7 as a pilot/UAT to two users for this Monday a.m. - which, despite this guide I don't think I'm going to meet, at least not with SCCM 2012!) I've hit upon my first problem. When running the 'Import Computer Information Wizard' it fails with this error message: Error: Following computers have not been imported: Name: W7_32BIT MAC Address: 00:50:56:82:00:08 SMBIOS GUID: Source Computer: Choose Target Collection: None Chosen Errors The SMS Provider reported an error. ConfigMgr Error Object: instance of SMS_ExtendedStatus { Description = "Unable to save changes";ErrorCode = 2152205056;File = "e:\\nts_sccm_retail\\sms\\siteserver\\sdk_provider\\smsprov\\sspsite.cpp";Line = 1242;Operation = "ExecMethod";ParameterInfo = "SMS_Site";ProviderName = "WinMgmt";StatusCode = 2147749889; }; My first thought was to manually create the folder structure mentioned in the "File = " line but that hasn't helped. I have to admit I don't really understand what this part of the process is trying to achieve. I thought that I could just build a machine from SCCM but the implication of this article is that to do so you have to refer to an existing machine with the required OS already on it. Is that right? And if so, why is it done this way?

That 'build and capture task sequence is used' link in the intro doesn't seem to work. Right now I'm puzzled about this part of the process BUT I've only done a quick scan through so will save any remaining questions until I've gone through the process properly!