SCCM 2012 R2 - Application Evalutation Failed During OSD

[Unknownforce]

VERY similar to this post... http://www.windows-noob.com/forums/index.php?/topic/7802-sccm2012-sp1-big-issues/

 

Same error number basically (Which seems to be a pretty "generic" error)

 

EXCEPT, my machines ARE domain joined before the application install happens. I've set each application of the task sequence to be deployed to All Desktop Clients as it would likely still be an "Unknown" computer at this point I believe. Regardless of where it would be, All Desktop Clients would hold any Unknown devices and/or Known devices as well, so instead of having this be a possible cause for it to fail, I just set it to All Desktop Clients, but they are only marked as Available, so it doesn't force install on anything we don't want it to be installed on. (Servers, etc.)

 

 

 

Here's the current (Basic) Task Sequence for each Sequence:

 

(Group)

Restart in PE

Format and Partition Disk 0

Apply Operating System

Apply Windows Settings (Basically just set name and Admin password (we have an activation server, so we don't use a key here)

Apply Network Settings (Joining to Domain) (Each TS has a different OU which they place these new loads)

Apply Device Drivers

 

(Group)

Setup Windows and Configuration Manager

Install Application (Java/Adobe Flash)

Install Application (Office/Adobe Reader and a few others)

 

 

Here's the important bits from AppIntentEval.log from a computer that's failing the load:

No dependencies for DeploymentType ScopeId_3FDE2C2B-3430-470E-9299-326559C511B7/DeploymentType_76b5d577-549d-4973-a2ee-3d526460d5cd/8.
Evaluating Application policies for Machine
Rejecting ScopeId_3FDE2C2B-3430-470E-9299-326559C511B7/RequiredApplication_fbb77ade-84eb-4ec8-a0aa-d592bd528295/8 due to evaluation error
ScopeId_3FDE2C2B-3430-470E-9299-326559C511B7/DeploymentType_76b5d577-549d-4973-a2ee-3d526460d5cd/8 :- Current State = Error, Applicability = Unknown, ResolvedState = None, ConfigureState = NotNeeded, Title = HP Connection Manager - Windows Installer (Native)
ScopeId_3FDE2C2B-3430-470E-9299-326559C511B7/Application_fbb77ade-84eb-4ec8-a0aa-d592bd528295/8 :- Current State = Error, Applicability = Unknown, ResolvedState = None, ConfigureState = NotNeeded, Title = HP Connection Manager - SP60031
ScopeId_3FDE2C2B-3430-470E-9299-326559C511B7/RequiredApplication_fbb77ade-84eb-4ec8-a0aa-d592bd528295/8 :- Current State = Error, Applicability = Unknown, ResolvedState = None, ConfigureState = NotNeeded, Title = ApplicationIntentPolicy

It doesn't seem like an issue with the application. Because it seems to happen with whichever application I set to install first. At first, I thought it was limited to applications that had Superceded other applications. It was originally failing on Java v7u55, which we also had applications out there still for v7u5 v7u13 v7u22, and a few others. But They were all superceded, and I only had v7u55 set for the task sequence, none of the others, but all of the superceded ones showed no clients having them, so I simply deleted the supercedence and the older applications as well. So now there's only Java v7u55. (Which I will update when I fix this problem, but no point in doing that until I can load new machines) Did the same with Flash player and Adobe Reader. This initially didn't resolve the problem, but after rebuilding the task sequence, it worked properly for a load or two, so I assumed it was fixed. Well I go to load another and I'm getting these errors again without even changing anything...

 

A little background here:

 

Similar setup as the other post. Windows Server 2008 R2, SCCM R2 CU3, Only one Primary Site server, no other servers or distribution points or management points or anything. Just a single Server.

 

We just recently updated from SCCM 2012 Vanilla to SP1 and then directly to R2 (and CU3) as well. The upgrades had no major issues, and I planned and performed all the necessary steps involved in each upgrade. (AIK -> ADK, .NET 4.5, etc.) I've also re-distrubuted the Boot Images. (although we only use the 64 bit one, I did both.) But it's booting just fine, the problem isn't until it tries to load an application during the task sequence.

 

BEFORE the upgrade, we could load machines just fine. Add and remove applications from the task sequences without issues. We only have 4 separate Task Sequences for 4 different device types.

 

It wasn't until AFTER the upgrade I started getting this issue.

 

In one of the fixes I read in a link from a reply to the other post I linked above, it mentioned the following:

 

make sure the machine is added to an OU that has no GPO/GPP settings (one more reason not to use Default Domain Policy) to keep the machine clean from any settings.

 

Now, keep in mind we've been loading machines without issue for years now... But... We are dumping them into OU's that do have custom GPO's. Could this be the cause of the problem? And if so, why is it that it worked just fine before (On non-SP1/R2) and now (on R2) it has a problem with it?

 

Is the proper procedure to first start them in the workstations OU (which doesn't have a GPO applied) and then move them after the load or as part of a final task sequence?

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[fredbeard]

Are these applications or packages? I had trouble with applications during OSD some time ago and switched to packages inside the OSD task sequence. Java, Reader, and TrendMicro all worked great and I never looked back at apps. I still deploy apps for normal deployment but packages during OSD.

[Unknownforce]

Are these applications or packages? I had trouble with applications during OSD some time ago and switched to packages inside the OSD task sequence. Java, Reader, and TrendMicro all worked great and I never looked back at apps. I still deploy apps for normal deployment but packages during OSD.

 

They are Applications. I suppose I could try Packages, but I just don't get why it would be a problem now that we've upgraded when it worked just fine pre-sp1.

 

I'll see if Packages work better, but they aren't as manageable, such as supercedence and whatnot, are they? I'd like to keep superceding things like Java, Reader and flash when we move to new versions so that current clients get the updates as well. I guess I could have them exist in both Applications and Packages, thus retain the manageability. It should still list them as "Installed" even though they weren't originally installed as an Application...

 

I'll play around with Packages and see if that works.

 

Thanks for the suggestion.

[Iroqouiz]

Trust me, use packages, they will never randomly fail. I also used apps before but since a year or so I use packages and haven't had a problem since.