I’ve been having a lot of trouble recently with this error. Running an OSD from PXE results in the error 80004005. Nothing specific in the logs other than that error message. I noticed tat if I disabled the install drivers part of the TS, then it worked ok. So clearly one of the drivers was [...]

I’ve been attempting to install office 2010 to several PCs using SCCM 2007 (sp2, r3). What a pain. You’d think deploying the exe with an appropriate config.xml would be ok, but it seems to ahve serious issues upgrading older versions. Originally, 2010 was deployed sans outlook as we’er a Notes house, however, Outlook is being deployed at one [...]

How to create a collection the SCCM Pre-R3 hotfix to clients

Looking for a way of deploying and updating the SCCM SP2 client to old clients? Well, here is the collection I’ve been using. This will list all the clients that are not running Service Pack 2. select SMS_R_SYSTEM.ResourceID, SMS_R_SYSTEM.ResourceType, SMS_R_SYSTEM.Name, SMS_R_SYSTEM.SMSUniqueIdentifier, SMS_R_SYSTEM.ResourceDomainORWorkgroup, SMS_R_SYSTEM.Client from SMS_R_System inner join SMS_G_System_SMS_ADVANCED_CLIENT_STATE on SMS_G_System_SMS_ADVANCED_CLIENT_STATE.ResourceID = SMS_R_System.ResourceId where SMS_R_System.ClientType = [...]

As you may be aware I’ve been experiementing with SCCM recently. I’m finding it amazing. I’ve not been on a course for this so to say it is daunting is a huge understatement. The myriad configuration options are enough to scare anyone off, but once you grasp the basic concepts of advertisements, packages and collections, [...]