Task Sequence Advertisement not deploying to workstation

[dsl55dsl]

Hi guys,

 

I am new here, first of all want to compliment on the amount of ressources and useful information within these forums.

 

First of all my environment is SCCM 2007 R3. I am running into issues with deploying some baremetal machines. I am not able to deploy them or takes awhile after I play around in it to work. I am trying to identify what is I am doing wrong. I am booting from media so NO PXE BOOT. What is driving me crazy is that this issue does not occur all the time.

 

These are the steps I am using:

1. Right Click on the new task sequence and press Advertised
2. Within the advertise Wizard, I choose the proper collection, I make sure the "Make this task sequence available to media and PXE" is checked, make advertisement mandatory, and choose defaults for the rest.
3. Then I right click on Computer Association and select "Import Computer Information" / "Import Single Computer" and fill out a new Computer name and the mac address of the PC.
4. At that moment I should be able to simply boot from my media and this should work but it doesnt.

So I have a couple of questions?

• Is my procedure flawed?
• What are the logs I could view to make sure that the task sequence (advertisement) is good to go with the proper collection?
• Is there a delay I need to wait?
• Is it normal that nothing appears under Computer Association? I was under the impression the computer name/MAC should appear after I add it.

[Peter van der Woude]

- Procedure is fine.

- The SMSPXE.log

- Sometimes it helps to first update and refresh the All Systems and the specific deployment collections.

- Normal

[dsl55dsl]

Is the SMSPXE.log the log I should take a look even if I dont boot from PXE but from media?

[Peter van der Woude]

Sorry, missed that part... No need to look in that log file when you are booting from a media. There should be local log files, like a smsts.log on the system then.

[dsl55dsl]

Nothing server side?