Re:Using SCCM to deploy IE8 on XP (gkirton)

Thu, 17 May 2012 06:46:09 GMT

Why not advertise the update to your collection, but use the 'Run another program first' tick box to run the IE8 install first. Suppress reboots on the IE8 install set 'ConfigMgr restarts computer' on that program.

This way, IE8 will install, configmgr will reboot the PC, then your patches will begin to install.

Using SCCM to deploy IE8 on XP (mridley)

Thu, 17 May 2012 05:16:44 GMT

Hi there,
I've been trying to get IE8 deployed out to our estate via SCCM. For the machines I can wake up overnight it is not a problem, but there are quite a few (e.g. laptops) which need to be done during the daytime. I found that to get them to work properly they need to be patched with the latest cumulative update of IE8, otherwise certain things (e.g HTML emails in Outlook) don't work. I tried including the patch via the IEAK8, but it tries to install it before the reboot so does not recognise that IE8 is installed. If I try doing it as a task sequence I get the same problem unless I set it up to autologin on reboot so it configures IE8 first, but when I set that up it bombs out saying there was an unexpected reboot.
I guess that (as usual) I'm missing something obvious, so thought I'd check how other people manage to update XP to IE8 without too much hassle.