Task Sequence Updates deployment hangs

[WAZZIE]

hi all,

 

Been going great guns with sccm and win7 deployments all achieved via the great help available on this site - congrats to niall on the MVP - no more than you deserve !!

 

(been super busy documenting it all - hopefully get it to niall at some point so if any of it is useful it can be posted up - been saying that for at least 2 months now.....documentation seems never ending with this sccm project at present)

 

MY PROBLEM :

nothing on sccm has changed and it has been used to deploy win7 x64 for the last 2 month without issue.

I have a task sequence with the usual bits in, one of which is apply updates which has also been working fine.

 

however when i updated the update list with october 2010 patches, my task sequence now hangs at the - downloading 1 patch of 56...

it doesnt get to the installing patch X of X....

 

I left one of the box's for 12+ hours and there was no change.

 

From what logs i can see, it is just sitting there, and because it isnt timing out, im not getting an error (as far as I can see) however it is no longer applying the updates, or moving on to the next task in the sequence - software deployment.

 

I have had a dig around in the forums here and on net, and cannot really find anything conclusive.

However, as part of the task sequence i have the install config manager with no additional parameters.

 

question(S):

What is the exact syntax of the entries for SMSSLP and SMSMP ?

Is this nessesary ? as it has been working fine without these set ?

 

our server is called UEASCCMWEB01

do i just enter :

SMSSLP=UEASCCMWEB01

SMSMP=UEASCCMWEB01

in the installation properties ? see screenie.

 

Anyone else had any issue like this ?

 

I have also taken out the october 2010 updates from the updatelist, and now my task sequence is working again, installing win7 , updates and software.....

 

Any help or pointers would be nice - I will continue to investigate and keep youposted if I sort it.

 

Thanks and regards to you all as always !!

WAZZIE

[Peter van der Woude]

Those settings shouldn't be needed. It is possible that there is an update that is breaking it... Is there a really big update between the October updates, which you are deploying? Otherwise it get's a trial-and-error game to see which update is causing it.

[pmrowley]

Those settings shouldn't be needed. It is possible that there is an update that is breaking it... Is there a really big update between the October updates, which you are deploying? Otherwise it get's a trial-and-error game to see which update is causing it.

 

It's definitely an update in October that has broken it. I removed everything from October on, and updates work fine in a Build and Capture sequence. Haven't narrowed it down further than that yet, because I'm under the gun to produce a working, patched capture.

 

-P