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I want to ensure that our Windows 7 computers are deployed as UK English, not the US English default that appears to be the only English option on Win 7 Pro. We will shortly be licenced for Windows 7 Enterprise which so far as I can tell, includes multiple language packs (unlike Pro which has one?). If I run through these guides using Win 7 Enterprise, will this give me the option to ensure that UK English can be set as the OS language, and save me having to manually change this once the OS has been installed?

Well tickle me with a feather and call me Susan, it is actually working - at last Control panel has some new updates listed, and it is still running msiexec so I am assuming the other updates are all being processed. Win

OK, my Win7 client has downloaded all the Windows Updates at last, I can see the folders and content in the C:\Windows\CCMCACHE folder. It has not, however installed them at present. The UpdatesStore.log lists them all and has 'Status=Missing' which I believe indicates they are required. I have no time window set for these to install, just ASAP, should I expect them to install straight away or is there some other process the client is waiting for before these updates all get installed?

Could you expand on how you did that please?

I've been racking my brain as to why our Windows 7 Updates weren't being installed and I think I have just sorted it - I followed the above a good few times, but only now did I notice that one of your pictures appears to be of the wrong thing - I was trying to deploy the 'Windows 7 Updates' beneath the 'All Software Updates' folder, but this did nothing on clients, nothing ever got installed. I ran through again this afternoon and this time I checked your written explaination - I deployed the 'Windows 7 Updates' beneath 'Software Update Groups' and it prompted me to accept or decline any software requiring me to accept a licence agreement which I don't recall from before. Alongside this, the 'Software Update Group' was previously always listed as the name of an actual update (ActiveX Killibits for me), whereas doing it now showed it correctly as 'Windows 7 Updates'. Fingers crossed it will now deploy the updates correctly, it was beginning to bug me why it wasn't working! It is still downloading the updates but I will report back once things work (or not!)! This is quite possibly why no updates appeared to be installed during the PXE deployment and why none were listed in Add/Remove Programs > Show Windows Updates.

I've just tried this and posted on a different forum with my findings. Once you extract the QT MSI's you can just deploy the QuickTime.msi file and it handles Application Support etc. You can then use GPO's to apply the quicktime.qtp file to users so you can centralise settings if you wish, as below: This one continues to be a stupid app... It stores preferences in QuickTime.qtp - great, except this is a per-user file in the individual users 'LocalLow' folder on the C: drive. If you run through the install from the exe and wait at the first prompt you should be able to search on the PC for '*.msi' and root out the extracted files when the installer runs. If you run the quicktime.msi it installs fine, no more of the 'ISSETUPDRIVEN=0' stuff from older versions, even Apple App Support installs from this one automatically. Run QuickTime and disable auto-update etc, turn off any tray icons etc. Navigate to C:\Users\YourUserName\AppData\LocalLow\Apple Computer\QuickTime and copy out the qtp file to a network share that everyone has read access to. In the user profile GPO (or relevant one applied to a user at login) add: User Configuration > Preferences > Windows Settings > Folders Add folder (Create or Update?) with the value of C:\Users\%username%\AppData\LocalLow\Apple Computer\QuickTime Add a file (Create or Update?) with the value of: Source: \\servername\share\QuickTime.qtp Destination: C:\Users\%username%\AppData\LocalLow\Apple Computer\QuickTime\QuickTime.qtp At login this folder and file is created and contains the settings you applied as your login. I tested a pupil login and ran QuickTime - it did not prompt to register etc. and on checking as an admin, the file and folder are created as required. You can silently install the QuickTime MSI though my next step is to test that this works OK - worst case you'll need an MSI for QuickTime and a second for Apple Application Support.

I ran through the PXE guide and the MDT guide for SCCM 2012 and it worked nicely, however I was at a loss to find a UK language option as the default install option. Given we are in the UK where I work, and we don't want to have to go round manually on each deployed computer/laptop and set this after install, how would I go about adding and making the UK language be installed and be the default?

Superb, I was wondering on that one!

OK I believe I have found the issue - whilst BITS was disabled within the SCCM Client Settings, it was enabled (not sure how) in GPO and limited to 10kbps! Applications were being downloaded but incredibly slowly. Once I turned it off via GPO things began to happen!

Hi all, Courtesy of these excellent guides, I have the SC 2012 RTM running on a test network. I am not yet quite clued up on how Application Deployment should behave. For example, I created an Application for Adobe Flash Player using the licenced MSI for. I ran through the wizard to import this MSI and then distributed the content. I then deployed it to a computer collection as a 'Required' application, 'As soon as possible'. After hours of waiting, it is still not installed on any computer within the collection. I recall from our setup with the previous SCCM 2012 RC, that we had similar issues. We deployed Flash Player as above, and one PC in the collection picked it up very quickly, the other one didn't do anything until the following day. So far as I can tell, I have set the clients to check for new deployments every 5 minutes, yet still nothing has taken place. Am I missing anything obvious with SCCM? We are looking to use it in a school environment, however at present the way that application deployment behaves is making this aspect of it a touch useless - if anyone has any pointers then I'd be very appreciative Thanks for any reply, Chris

Kind of, I'm still unsure if or how you can control more closely when a newly deployed software application gets deployed. There seems to be a setting in the SCCM Client Settings to make the computer client check for new deployments every 5 minutes, however this still doesn't appear to trigger newly deployed applications to be installed.

Am I missing the option to set things up for UK English?

I suspect we're being impatient as the app had installed to one PC by this morning, however we're curious how we go about troubleshooting an app which hasn't deployed successfully to all assigned computers? I have a feeling that the process went like this: Build Win7 PC SCCM picks it up, we move it to a device collection We then renamed the PC and rebooted it Allocate application It installs to the PC that SCCM had got the right name for but not to the renamed PC The renamed PC now shows by the correct name in SCCM but is not picking up any deployed applications. I cannot find a way to refresh or redeploy the application to the failed machines unless I'm missing something?

Hi all, We started to look at application deployment within our SCCM 2012 RC trials today. We have some test clients, built from the Win7 x64 image created and deployed using the guides on here. We did a quick application for Adobe Flash Player 11 from the official MSI via the Adobe Licencing scheme. The package was automatically set with the /q flag by SCCM as expected for a silent install, We then deployed it to our test device collection of built computers - those having completed Win7 installs, on the domain and with the SCCM client installed during the deployment. They also picked up Forefront soon after they finished building. According to our understanding, Flash Player should have just automatically been installed to the computers in the device collection we assigned it to. We waited a good while and then as if by magic, one PC did begin the install - however it popped up the full install interface needing the user to click through it. It first complained of no Internet connection to download the package, we clicked retry and it worked. We expected this to be silent though, no user interaction? The other PC did nothing - no Flash Player install etc. So, first off is this something that should work? We were assuming we can create and then deploy an application and have it automatically installed, silently, at the login screen (or during a logon session if applicable). We then tried another simple MSI based application - we created the application within SCCM and then deployed it to the same device collection as Flash Player. After a good hour or so it still hadn't been installed. Are we missing something with SCCM Application Deployment or should it work the way we are expecting it to? Do the clients check for new applications on a fixed schedule and if so, are we able to configure this check frequency? Perhaps the clients just didn't do a check in the timeframe we were waiting. Thanks for any reply. Chris

It's taken me a few days but finally, it is now capturing the image Turns out I had an issue with the server firewall that was blocking any connections so the final stage of capture could not connect to the server share. Now that is resolved the captured image is being stored as I type! Fingers crossed this is one of the last hurdles to this superb bit of software, further kudos for writing these guides, they've been invaluable!

http://sccmfaq.wordpress.com/2011/11/08/sccm-2012-automatic-deployment-rules/ Creation of automatic software update rules, might well be the thing we're looking for

Further reading does suggest you can have an automatic or manual software update deployment rule - the automatic one appears to automatically scan for new updates, then make them available to the relevant device group. Need to do a bit of playing to see how that works, as for critical/security/definition updates this would be my preferred method, I want my manual intervention requirements to be as low as possible!

Is there a way, using SCCM 2012 RC and maybe WDT integrated, to setup some drivers on the SCCM server that the computers will auto-pickup during the installation of Win7 from a pre-created image?

Any thoughts people? I'm hoping it all happens automagically once setup, if not then would using WSUS not be a better option to reduce admin intervention?

Has anyone ever had the issue where the image capture process fails just at the stage when it connects to the \\***\sources\os\windows7x64 share and complains about the share already being in use? This appears to be the last hurdle in getting this working and I'm unsure why it is failing here, seems a bit strange!

I'm curious - do we have to update the included update list manually, or does it automatically update the contained updates on it's own? I'd have assumed to just set the domain computers to point to WSUS and be done with things, why do we configure all of these deployment groups and rules? Is it not just repeating what WSUS does on it's own?

Hi all, First off this section has proved an invaluable resource whilst investigating SCCM 2012, Microsoft could learn a thing or two! I've got all the way through things and am trying to capture Win7 64bit as per the instructions. It gets all the way through and PXE boots OK, then fails trying to connect to one folder within the SMSPKGG$ share - it connects fine to one (resolved an issue where the content was not distributed which sorted it) and, using the set NAA account, I cam manually browse and connect to the share it fails on (HCC00006) within SMSPKGG$ so I am a tad confused. This folder contains the relevant content which has been distributed successfully according to the monitoring view within SCCM 2012. The log file is attached which shows the error close to the bottom - it tries to connect a few times but fails, then drops out of the task and gives you a 15minute reboot timeout. I may not have explained myself too well so please ask for anything else I can provide Ta smsts.log