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Create Task sequence media :( - 11/28/2008 6:52:58 AM

cpierer

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Hi,

I have to export some task sequnces to USB drives (stand-alone media), in order to be able to set up systems at remote locations with a slow network connection where no streaming would be possible. The process itselves is not really the problem but when I try dto create such a stick I need more than 3 hours to copy 4 GB to the flash drive. The flash drive and the pc, it's the server, are working properly. When copying data with the exporer I encounter no problems. The logfile CreateTSMedia.log shows no problems.

The next problems occur when trying to run the Tast sequence. First of all the TSPBootstrap.ini has to be changed that it runs unattended. The next problem is to join to a domain. Well, I've read many articles and found out that the stand-alone process always set the time-zone to Pacific. This results in a difference to the MP-time or the DC-time so you can't join the domain because of the difference.

To inject special device drivers is a bit tricky. YOu have to create for each pc-type an own package and you must not add the drivers automatically. You have to make one step for each pc-type and use a wmi-query to find out which step should be run for which pc. Of course this is not the best way because it needs space on the media but it works.

Does anybody have the same problems or maybe a solution or a suggestion how to make it better?

thx

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RE: Create Task sequence media :( - 12/1/2008 10:59:20 AM

rbennett806

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Have you tried burning a DVD instead of a USB stick?

And if you have techs at the remote location, you could always just include a C:\Drivers\Other folder structure and place the drivers in there for the techs to install manually once the machine has been imaged (not the ideal solution, but this gets things up and running).

http://andrius.kozeniauskas.com/blog/2008/06/23/sccm-how-to-create-stand-alone-media/

(in reply to cpierer)

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