Eswar Koneti

yes ,this question shouldn't arise from u really! .I have Here is my Task Sequence attached.Should i need to enable or add any tasks to the existing TS.I used WINPE 2.0 x86 boot image to this TS also.

It is not mandatory ,it is just optional and i cont see it in Run Advertised programs(control panel) even. /Eswar

Hi, I am doing side-by-side migration of my old computers to a new configuration(XP to XP).My environment runs in Server 2K8/SCCM SP1 R2/MDT 2008.Created a CA with source and destination machine names.Created a TS with Capture User State and Request State Store(location to store the captured user state) and advertised it on to collection.Waited for long time ,trigged the machine policy and ,it doesnt happen at all on the client side.Verified that ,everything is running fine with the client.do i need have any setting or any custom actions in Task Sequence. Thanks! Eswar.

Hi, To left out(should not format)the other partitions like D,E .I removed the action in TS i.e format and partition disk bcz it does the job of formatting all the drives and make new drives and you have an option to install OS on particular Drive.See below the snap shot.

If these progrmans are included in the task sequence,it should be installed along with the OS .Once the image is installed,the computer will be moved to default collection (all systems or windows XP systems) or to other collection.If the collection(installed computers is member of) has any other advertised progrms,it will be advertised on to the newly installed computer.This can be done by supprssing the adv. Regards, Eswar.

this can be found from software updates node.If u look at the patches information under the node ,you can see if it is already downloaded or not .Here is the screen shot that gives u more information.

Yes i aggree but if i have package called "October" and deplyment called "october" with 20 patches in the package.i have created new deplyment called "November" and advertised on to some collection.If i want to delete unwanted packages which already deplyed,how can i do it if i am not sure bcz the deplyment called is "november" and pcakage exits is "October" ? Am i thinking wrong here? Regards, Eswar.

I have 20 patches and a standard template with some custom settings.Now i created a package (Test package) for these 20 patches and advsetised on to XP machines.SO it install succuessfully without any issues(of course again in this case,user invention is required to click on the taskbar icon) Now my question:is it possible for me to create a another package that should has only 6 patches(from above 20) so i can distrbute only these patches to another collection with standard template. I have tried to do this but i can see only new deplyment management that consists of 6 patches . It assumes that,if a patch is already downloaded onto DP and member of Any packages,it wont comes under newly created package ? I am not sure if this information makes you to understand my quiry but if anything requires i can post some more information . Regards, Eswar.

I have one more on this: I have SCCM R2 with server 2008.I created a standard template for Windows XP machines with some custom settings. I have few updates that are required by clients.I started deploying these to my client PCs.when i do this,i have come acroos an option to downlaod software updated either from internet or from network location.I have placed all the updated in a shared location(\\PRODSCM\Updates\November).When i select this folder to get these updates,I do see only the folders for these patches(which are inside the november folder) not the content inside( ilke .exe files).But if i select the any patch folder ,i can see only that patch gets updated to DP but not all the patches.Can some tell me is there any option to get all the patches one at a time ?

Hi, I have deployed patches onto XP collection with a deadline and i dont see any updates that are installing automcatically in my environment but if i set an option like do not set a deadline,i can see a POPUP in the taskbar and need to click the patches to install manually.IS it something gone wrong in the settings? Regards, Eswar.

Hi, When you try to install/Upgrade SMS/SCCM clients,you might see the installtion gets failed due to wmi and this might be the cause for failure of application installtion.Here is the simple batch script which can be run on the wmi issus machines locally/remotely with psexec.Just name this batch script as xxxxxxx.bat. @echo off REM %windir%\system32\wbem\winmgmt /clearadap %windir%\system32\wbem\winmgmt /kill %windir%\system32\wbem\winmgmt /unregserver %windir%\system32\wbem\winmgmt /reserver %windir%\system32\wbem\winmgmt /resyncperf net stop winmgmt /y if exist %windir%\system32\wbem\repository.old rmdir /s /q %windir%\system32\wbem\repository.old ren %windir%\system32\wbem\repository repository.old regsvr32 /s %systemroot%\system32\scecli.dll regsvr32 /s %systemroot%\system32\userenv.dll for /f %%s in ('dir /b /s %windir%\system32\wbem\*.dll') do regsvr32 /s %%s for /f %%s in ('dir /b /s %windir%\system32\wbem\*.mof') do mofcomp %%s for /f %%s in ('dir /b %windir%\system32\wbem\*.mfl') do mofcomp %%s net start winmgmt %windir%\system32\wbem\wmiprvse /regserver

Simply superb mate.Really good