SCCM OSD - Install Packages Failing?
I just wanted to blog this down real quick since it was fresh in memory.
Troubleshooting a deployment issue from the SMS Email distribution list; we were attempting to solve why an SCCM/MDT deployment was not installing the packages as listed in the task Install Software in the task sequence, with the base variable of PACKAGES.
Well come to find out, the package's programs in SCCM were not configured to allow them to be used in the task sequence without the use of an advertisement. You can find and enable this feature within the programs properties as shown here:
If you do not enable this feature and attempt to install packages from SCCM via the Install Software task you may see something like this error in your SMSTS.LOG file
Thanks to Todd Hemsell for sharing the error code and Michael Niehaus for pointing out the potential problem based on this error code!
P.S See Michael's post here for a more in-depth look at this process and a script for changing all your existing programs to have this feature enabled:
http://blogs.technet.com/mniehaus/archive/2008/05/08/using-the-configmgr-2007-install-software-step-to-install-a-dynamic-list-of-packages.aspx