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It's an app and not old package, correct? I've long since abandoned using apps in OSD. It's just too error prone. I use apps when pushing software to existing clients but during OSD i only use packages. Haven't had a problem since. In your case it seems like software updates are messing up the .net installation, correct? What updates are you installing? Is .net already in one of your software update groups perhaps, and maybe already installed when the app installation commences?

Do you already have a captured wim file with the same name in the same directory? IIRC there is a bug that aborts the ts if that is the case.

Is it somehow marked as a dependency with automatic installation for another application?

Just set up DNS publishing on your KMS host. Then your machines will automatically activate sometime after OSD..

That's not how you create a MDT integrated boot image in SCCM. 1. Install MDT on your site server or local computer where the SCCM console is also installed. 2. "Configure ConfigMgr Integration" from start menu or Metro UI. 3. Fill in your SCCM server info in that wizard. 4. When that's done, start the SCCM console and go to Software Library --> Operating Systems. 5. Right click Boot Images and select "Create Boot Image using MDT".

Whenever I get that error it almost always has something to do with the disk/partition, like it being corrupt. I've only seem it in lab VMs though, so I've always just run diskpart and cleaned disk 0.

There aren't any weird scripts running as scheduled tasks, or anti virus applications that interfere?

Do you also have a task sequence deployed to "All Unknown Computers"?

Yeah, forgot about that. I even use it myself, all the time

And when that machine is discovered you add it to the deployment collection?

Put in a pause before and after the "Apply Windows Settings" step. It seems like that step is not completing correctly if the admin account is disabled even though you've specified it. Just to make sure, you don't join the computer to the domain, right? http://www.windows-noob.com/forums/index.php?/topic/8846-how-can-i-pause-a-task-sequence-in-system-center-2012-configuration-manager/

I have one TS for all my images, works great. I use a lot of conditions on the different steps. To choose the correct image I have several "Apply Operating System" steps, each with a condition to only run if task sequence variable OSDImageName equals "MyWin7Imagename" (which is set after that image is chosen in the HTA).

It's called User Driven Installation. I've had that running in our environment before and it worked fine. Decided to scrap it for different reasons.

Have you tried any of the suggestions in this thread then?

Hit F8 when you get to WinPE and see if you get an IP address.

I know this isn't what you're after, but perhaps deploy the apps to a user collection which make them show up in the Application Catalog instead? Then the users would only really need to use Software Center if they are running an OS deployment.

Windows 8.1 is not supported by SCCM 2012 SP1, you need to upgrade to R2.

Wondering this myself.

How does it affect the site server's performance to schedule the inventory cycles? Why risk affecting clients with important stuff going on by scheduling the inventory in the middle of the day?

The error code means "RPC server is unavailable". Have you check for firewall issues?

Is your current site a Primary Standalone Site? If so you cannot install a new primary site on a different location. If your need is just to transfer packages/apps/images and make the clients in the remote site use a local distribution point, then I would just install a remote distribution point in that location. The remote clients would then report to your local primary site but all downloads of software would be made from their local DP (the remote DP). This solution is the easiest and least time consuming for you.

Do you mean 12 at noon? If so, I would change the time so the inventory runs at night. Inventory can take up a lot of resources on the clients so perhaps you can save your company some helpdesk calls.

Is this problem occurring with just one application or more?

There are built-in reports in the Monitoring node in the console, which you can run as well.

1. If you have configured this in default clients settings in SCCM those settings are applied to the client machine after imaging is done, when the client machine has been fully registered in the SCCM database and has downloaded machine policy. If you have created custom client settings and deployed them to a different collection those settings will not be applied to the client if it's not a member of that collection. 2. This is easier to configure with GPO or with an unattend.xml file applied to the OS image during OSD. 3. Configure this with GPO easily. 4. Not familiar with Bitlocker really, sorry.