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Hi, does anyone have experience with provisioning of hp proliant servers? After starting the task sequence sccm doesn't find any volume or disk but the logical drive has been configured in the hp smart array utility. Diskpart tells that no fixed disk is available. Kind regards, Armin

Hello, First of all, I would like to apologize if this is in the wrong place. This is my first topic submission. I have deployment experience with MDT and SCCM 2012 but this is my first time using the HP Proliant Task Sequence. I have had nothing but issues with this since it went in. It appears that it works from default, but when I make any changes, the jobs fail. First change I made was to install features. I needed to install Dotnet 3.5 and Telnet Client as part of the TS. I added this step in at the end before it resets the reboot variable and ticked the required boxes. Other steps are things like diskpart (To scan in my second disk) and a command line to change page file etc. When the TS is deployed, it fails at that step with a rather generic error and just reboots into Windows. I cant remember the exact errors as I have now removed these options from my TS (I can add back if you need exact) Second issue A few other HP Features do not appear to be installing correctly. For example: Array configuration Utility, Network Configuration Utility and HP Diagnostics etc These are nowhere to be seen. I thought these were supposed to be part of the default TS? As a workaround I added a PSP package as an application to install after deployment. HPSUM.exe -silent is the install, This deploys correctly but still no ACU or NCU anywhere to be seen! Maybe I am doing something wrong but I am pretty sure after looking online that these functions should atleast be installed as part of the PSP install packs!. Let me know what information you require please and I will try and get it to you. Any help would be appreciated. Many Thanks Craig

Hi, I have recently installed the HP SCCM integration which is provided by HP to help automate the HP proliant server deployment process, it allows for RAID, BIOS, ILO and post OS install config which is great (after some scripting) I managed to get the base template task sequence to install - using default settings but I had a few questions as its not fully litetouch the task sequence is set to use the SetReboot variable and this increments each time the machine reboot within the task sequence - the problem is, after each reboot I am presented with the following (which is annoying as I want to hit F12 and just walk away pretty much) select boot image (even thought only 1 image is in the options list) - I dont want to see this screen, shouldnt it just boot directly into the boot image and start the task sequence at every reboot that boots into PXE, I have to hit F12, shouldnt It just boot into PXE automatically and continue the task sequence? becuase I have to hit F12 each time, I also have to enter the password and select the task sequence from the list? 2.if I try and add additioanl steps to the TS - I am presented with an error which says "there are too many steps in the task sequence"?????