Troubleshooting empty program lists in a Configuration Manager 2007 Task Sequence

re: Troubleshooting empty program lists in a Configuration Manager 2007 Task Sequence

Jay P — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 17:39:56 GMT

I have a program that is set to use a required drive letter and works fine when pushing the program on its own. But as part of the TS, the drive is not mapped and still uses an UNC. Do you know if this is a known issue and if there is a fix or something for it?

re: Troubleshooting empty program lists in a Configuration Manager 2007 Task Sequence

Jay P — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 18:33:36 GMT

Also if Only When a User is logged in is selected, the program will not appear in the TS. Has to be set to Whether or not a user is logged in or only when no user is logged in.

re: Troubleshooting empty program lists in a Configuration Manager 2007 Task Sequence

Trevor Sullivan — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 18:42:23 GMT

Hmmmm, just because the "Allow users to interact with this program" option is checked, doesn't mean it's trying to run in user context. Yes, task sequences always run under the local system context, but the whole purpose of the checkbox is to make programs interactive (while still running under the local system context).

If showing a program interactively during a task sequence is required, I believe that the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) 2010 Update 1 includes a tool that will help with this. I don't know what the tool's name is off-hand.

Is this considered a bug, or expected behavior?

Cheers,

Trevor Sullivan

Consultant | 1E Inc.