Jonney

I followed the steps in this guide and everything worked great. Has anybody tried to use the offline servicing feature with the Windows 8 wim file? When I attempt to image a workstation with the patched wim file I get an error message in the task sequence when windows attempts to start the first time. The message says the windows is unable to configure one of it's components. Has anybody been able to use scheduled updates with Windows 8?

Microsoft provided me with two SQL queries to run against the database. This one will check for bad policies in the database. if no results are returned from this query then you don't have the same issue. SELECT * FROM ResPolicyMap WHERE machineid = 0 and PADBID IN (SELECT PADBID FROM PolicyAssignment WHERE BodyHash IS NULL) This one will remove any bad policies if there are any. Delete FROM ResPolicyMap WHERE machineid = 0 and PADBID IN (SELECT PADBID FROM PolicyAssignment WHERE BodyHash IS NULL) After that restart the management point and everything should be working normally.

Is this affecting just one workstation or all of your workstations? I had a problem like this that affected all of my workstations. Turns out that I had a corrupted policy in the database which caused the management point to freak out and not give out any policy to the clients.