ConfigMgr SP2 Bug – Deploying Win7 – USMT errors
Thanks to Greg Ramsey with his help in troubleshooting this issue.
When testing deploying Win7 through ConfigMgr, I could deploy the OS fine in a bare metal scenarion, but I couldn’t for the life of me get a refresh to work. If i disabled the USMT components then i could refresh the computer. This was regardless of MDT integration or not. For testing purposes i stripped out the MDT integration in the TS and was just simply deploying the OS and and utilizing USMT 4.
The noticeable error in the logs was that migsys.xml was missing. Apparently ConfigMgr still looks for this file even though USMT 4 does not use this file any longer. Also, i was seeing errors in the logs about ConfigMgt not being able to find the files it needed for USMT to run.
So, there are 2 steps to resolve this issue.
1) Copy the contents of the USMT folder from the AIK to your USMT source folder. I copied the contents of the x86 directory to the root of my USMT source folder and then i also copied the x86 folder into the source folder, so the source folder has double content, one in the root, and one in the x86 folder.
2) I created a blank migsys.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<migration urlid="http://www.microsoft.com/migration/1.0/migxmlext/migsys.xml">
</migration>
After i completed these steps, i was able to successfully refresh my Win7 machine.