January 2010 - Posts
After deploying software updates to a collection the following State ID appears on the report titled: "States 1 - Enforcement States for a deployment"
State ID - 3010006 - "Failed to install update(s)"
When reading the WUAHandler.log file of a machine contained within this report, the following entries are found:
Async searching of updates using WUAgent started.
Async searching completed.
OnSearchComplete - Failed to end search job. Error = 0xc8000438.
Scan failed with error = 0xc8000438.
When noting the time stamps on the first two lines from the above entries, the times are generally seconds apart.
I have found that this is usually an indication of a corrupt or outdated Windows Update Agent. Installing the new agent, followed by an update scan or application will usually solve the issue.
The latest Windows Update Agent can be found here: (scroll to the bottom of the pages for the manual downloads)
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/949104
During the imaging process, it becomes necessary to provide WMI queries within task sequences in order to differentiate between computer models. Typically, this is accomplished by utilizing the following query within a conditional statement inside a task sequence task item:
SELECT * FROM Win32_ComputerSystem WHERE Model = "[model name from WMI]"
Unfortunately, if you are using Levono products, this can have multiple values for the same computer familiy. (i.e. the ThinkPad X61 has several different model "numbers," none of which have the label "ThinkPad X61".) In order to provide a query which will yield the commonly used model "name" for Lenovo Thinkpads, use the following query:
SELECT * FROM Win32_ComputerSystemProduct WHERE Version = "ThinkPad [model number]"
(i.e. SELECT * FROM Win32_ComputerSystemProduct WHERE Version "ThinkPad X200")
It is also very handy to keep a spreadsheet of all the model numbers and corresponding model names for use in reporting CASE statements to make your reports easier for management to decipher.
Information concerning the hardware device with details = "PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_4237&SUBSYS_12118086&REV_00 ..."
Details:
Intel Wireless LAN (abgn, abg, bg) for Windows XP - ThinkPad
(Specificially, the driver file is - NETw5x32.INF)
Link:
http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-70504
Information concerning the hardware device with details = "ACPI\INTC0102\1"
Details:
Intel Integrated TPM (Trusted Platform Module) for Windows XP (SP2) - ThinkPad R400, R500, T400, T400s, T500, W500, W700, W700ds, X200, X200s, X200 Tablet, X301
(Specifically, the driver file is - tpm.inf)
Link:
http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/MIGR-70123.html
Information concerning the hardware device with details = "ACPI\IBM0068\5&2890D699&0"
Details:
ThinkPad Power Management driver for Windows 7, Vista, XP, 2000, ME, 98 SE - ThinkPad
Unattended installation command line: setup.exe -S -SMS
Link:
http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-4GXPEG
Information concerning the hardware device with details = "PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_2A44&SUBSYS_20E617AA ...
Details:
Local Manageability Service and Serial Over LAN (Intel AMT 4.0) driver for Windows Vista, XP - ThinkPad R400, R500, T400, T400s, T500, W500, W700, W700ds, X200, X200s, X200 Tablet and X301
(Specifically, this is the HECI device - HECI.inf)
Link:
http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-70317
Information concerning the hardware device with details = "PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_2A47&SUBSYS_20EC17AA ...
Details:
Local Manageability Service and Serial Over LAN (Intel AMT 4.0) driver for Windows Vista, XP - ThinkPad R400, R500, T400, T400s, T500, W500, W700, W700ds, X200, X200s, X200 Tablet and X301
(Specifically, this is the SOL device - mesrl.inf / mesrle.inf)
Link:
http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-70317
The default configuration of the Format and Partition Disk task sequence is to fully format the target partition. If you would like to change this to quick formatting, do the following:
- Within the SCCM 2007 console, expand the site, expand Computer Management, expand Operating System Deployment and select Task Sequences.
- Locate your target task sequences, right-click it and select edit. (You can double-click the task sequence as well to get to the edit dialog box.
- Select the Partition Disk 0 task.
- Within the volume section, selection the volume you wish to quick format and click the Edit button.
- Within the Partition Properties dialog box, check the box labeled "Quick format" under the Formatting options section.
- Click the OK button.
- Click the Apply button, then the OK button.
Here is a screenshot of the Partition Properties box:
