Cavemen Posted September 7, 2012 Report post Posted September 7, 2012 Hey guys, I'm an intern at a high school in The Netherlands where we rolled out SCCM 2012 a few weeks ago. We've used one of our classrooms for testing the computers. Now that the school has started again we're encountering a few problems. We have about 5-8 systems that do not appear to be in SCCM in any way but the systems will not deploy. The unknowns have different mac adresses then these systems, the bios GUID isn't logged in our system yet, the ip adress that the systems receive isn't logged in SCCM either. Is there any other unique ID that we can search for? It's possible that the systems that won't run are the systems that we used for testing and that the systems are somehow still within sccm, but we don't know how to find out. Sorry for any spelling or grammar issues. Thanks Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oneone Posted September 7, 2012 Report post Posted September 7, 2012 Try deploying the task sequance you want to be available to the "All unknown computers collection" and make sure the task sequance is available for PXE. If you want to seach for you´r missing computers via MAC adress try this. Go to Membership rules on a collection Click membership rules Add rule > Direct rule Resource class: system resource attribute name : MAC Addresses type in the mac adress of the computer like so 00:00:00:00:00:00 Now if you have the computer in the database it will propably show up as "unknown" add it to the collection and delete the object. Then readd the computer to the collection you want. good luck. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cavemen Posted September 7, 2012 Report post Posted September 7, 2012 We've created a query that allows us to search for MAC adresses within our database. We've confirmed that those systems are not in our database (or atleast not with mac adresses). We've also tried your method which confirmed that the systems aren't there under their mac adresses. Regards, Dennis Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oneone Posted September 7, 2012 Report post Posted September 7, 2012 So you still cant deploy any OS to them ? even if you deploy the TS to unknown computers? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cavemen Posted September 7, 2012 Report post Posted September 7, 2012 When I go to monitoring I can see that there are 4 things placed there for the collection "unknown computers". - Windows 7 Deploy - Software update group - Internet explorer 9 and IE9 langauge pack - Automatic deployment rule for security and critical windows updates - Automatic deployment rule for microsoft office updates (workstations). We can deploy the unknown computers after we do clear PXE on them, but there are just a few systems that aren't even registered as unknown computers. They don't appear to exist at all and yet won't accept the deployments. Manually adding them to the system based on MAC and / or Bios GUID didn't help either. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter van der Woude Posted September 7, 2012 Report post Posted September 7, 2012 The only way to deploy to system that are not in ConfigMgr is to deploy to the All unknown computer collection. When this doesn't work start with checking the smspxe.log for messages about your computer. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cavemen Posted September 9, 2012 Report post Posted September 9, 2012 I'll see what we'll come up with tomorrow morning when checking out that file. I'll post an update soon. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
