Required OSD advertisement rerun if previous failed.

[P@docIT]

Hello All,

 

I am curious how you get a failed OSD advert to rerun in 2012. I want to be able to assign roles to our satellite offices so that they can refresh their PCs by moving them into a "refresh" collection. However i am trying to figure what the steps would be for them to rerun the advert if the OSD fails. The deployment is set to rerun if failed previous attempt. Is there a way for them to rerun the advert without deleting/recreating the deployment? In my test I tried removing/re-adding the machine from the collection, but that doesn't seem to have kicked off the rerun.

 

Any help would be appreciated.

Mike

[Peter van der Woude]

Are you using required deployments? If so, use the clear last pxe in the right-click menu on the device.

[P@docIT]

Yes it would be required deployment. I will give this a try. I have to say that Microsoft should change the verbiage of that option. I'm not PXE booting so I wouldn't think to run that in this scenario. Just creates a bit of confusion.

 

Thanks,

Mike

[Peter van der Woude]

In that case I would expect the deployment to be able to rerun without the clear action.

[P@docIT]

Do you know if there is a log I can check for any information on if it's retrying, etc. I have yet to be able to rerun the advertised OSD without deleting/recreating the deployment.

 

In my opinion if "rerun on failed previous" is set then at some interval of time the machine should retry OR I should be able to force a retry immediately. I find it perplexing that this functionality seems to be missing.

[Peter van der Woude]

The one thing it does need before it can retry is a new deployment schedule. The "rerun on failed previous" is only applicable on the next time the deployment is scheduled to run.