Thanks for providing that detail – much appreciated.
We agree there’s a lot of value with such an addition.
At most of my customers, we are working with collection- or machine variables to be flexible during OS deployment with languages, application installations or something else.
In some cases, there are so much collections with different variables, that it is very hard to find where a variable is coming from.
Perhaps, you can use a dialog in context menu of a device like 'client settings' - 'Resultant Client Settings'.
Upgrade Windows 10 OS Image to latest version within the console (via Offline Servicing) instead of having to run build/capture Task Sequence to generate a new WIM.
We looked into this to see what was possible with Offline Servicing – the ‘Upgrade roll-ups’ are executables. Offline Servicing is limited to CBS (Component Based Setup) updates – same as what can be applied via DISM – based on that build/capture remains the way to go. Using OS Upgrade then Capture works well too.
Allow adding content for a task sequence to a media that works like the Bootable media, if content is local and up2date use that otherwise pull from DP.
Today, sccm will retain two copies of a task sequence log at most, and then truncate them when they reach a certain length.
It's possible to customize this but you need to bake a file into your boot wim image. This capability should be moved into the task sequence as a new variable.
Call it smsts_number_of_logs and SMSTS_LOG_ROLLOVE_LENGTH.
finally, zti_copylogs should be amended to copy all smsts log files, not just the first two, as it's written today.
Why is not possible to multi-select task sequences and deploy them at once to a (user or device) collection? Now you have to deploy them one by one. In test scenario's where you have a device collection with test machines and hundreds of task sequences you want to deploy to the collection, you have to do it manually one by one. Not really efficient.
It would be nice to be able to have a built in step to be able to select a folder/file from a share and then a location on Windows to copy the files to.
We are trying to use prestage media to deploy images to machines on sites with little bandwidth, but still with a network connection to the corporate network.
We have a large number of sites and our current online build uses an MDT database with Roles and Make / Model configurations for a large number of sites and hardware types.
Within each of these, we have a number of packages and applications which are installed depending on the site / model required.
This all works fine for an online build, however when using prestage media, even if we include the packages in the image (ie. in c:\sms\pkg\<packagecode>) through the prestage media wizard, the package data is still retrieved from an SCCM server which may be across a WAN connection. There is currently no way to force the installation of packages from the local disk when using dynamically assigned applications or packages.
We have spoken to Microsoft regarding this issue and it has been confirmed that this is indeed the case.
Our solution works globally using seperate task sequences for Windows 7, 8.1 and 10 and using individual task sequences with assigned applications and packages is just not an option due to the numnber of sites and devices covered.
There is an existing request for something very similar here - https://configurationmanager.uservoice.com/forums/300492-ideas/suggestions/8341257-support-installation-of-packages-apps-via-dynamic - howver this refers to standalone media not prestage media.
In the SCCM Console (doesn't matter what version, I'm using 1511), If a task sequence is under a folder, and if you select View Content Status from the Reference tab, it will take you to there, BUT if you go back to the task sequence or click the back button, all task sequences are gone until. If you try to hit F5 or refresh, you will receive and error: "The requested object could not be retrieved..."
Thanks for your feedback. We have this item noted in our bug backlog.
Please address why are Windows 10 1607 CBB versions are represented as "Other" and CB versions show as "Windows 10, version 1607" under the Windows 10 Usage graphic.
Add a column in the Driver Catalog for x86 and x64 Architecture.
It would also be nice if Architecture was searchable in the Search field.
Posted as a bug on connect (https://connect.microsoft.com/ConfigurationManagervnext/feedback/details/2183906) but would also like this as a feature. We are running a PowerShell script that adds Microsoft .NET Framework types (classes) to a Windows PowerShell session (via Add-Type). On 64-bit OS it must run under a 64-bit PowerShell process in order to be successful. Otherwise it just fails with exit code 1. As a work-around we can run a command line step.
When "Check Readiness" fail because of requirements then the result is a error dialog without any information why it fails.
So yes we can go into logs and tell why it fails but for the users that started for example Windows 10 upgrade the error message is not clear.
It would be good if it can say why it failed.
WinPE wizard upscaling or hard-coded resolution settings for HiRes displays.
It would be great to be able to customize the screen resolution in WinPE from within the boot image properties, especially on 4k devices where the native resolution makes it difficult to see task sequence steps/failures/logs in WinPE. I've read about an unattend.xml file that you can put in the WIM file but it'd be nice to have this a native feature of ConfigMgr.
I basically want to be able to create standalone OSD media that allows me to backup/restore users files and settings to our State Migration Point. The standalone media now only allows for the hard link option when using USMT. If there was a way possible to maybe create some kind of USMT wizard in the task sequence on the standalone media that would allow me to move the users files and settings to a USB drive or SMP that would be really useful.
Or a better implementation of Ben Hunter's script.
Right now if I go into Software Library > Operating Systems > OS Images > Schedule updates to update my Windows 10 wims with the latest cumulative update (sorted by date released ascending, the dates go 10/x/16 -> 11/x/16 -> 12/x/16 -> 4/x/15->5/x/15->.... So it's sorting them numerically 1-9 instead of December, Nov, Oct as (12, 11, 10) or vice for the latest update releases in the end-year months.
make a separate Unknown Computers Collection for each Distribution Point, in that way you could make a task sequence available to computers in specific boundaries.