BDPs are not returned in content requests from OSD Clients - Update to KB942700

RyanAn — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 07:43:00 GMT

I submitted a content update request for KB942700 that was published Wednesday. The update was regarding the issue documented in the following article:

942700 The task sequence does not run on the protected branch distribution points in System Center Configuration Manager 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;942700

If you are using OS Deployments with BDPs, please check it out as this took me a long time to troubleshoot. Initially the article discussed behavior regarding advertisement initiated task sequences and I ran into the issue with a customer for an OS Deployment issue. It took a long time to troubleshoot and I'm hoping to save some time for others!

In addition to the newly added symptoms, please note the addition of the updates to the "Apply the hotfix package Notes" section especially in regards to OS Deployment.

For the hotfix that is available to Operating System Deployment clients, take the following steps:

Update all boot images on all distribution points that are being used including the SMSPXEIMAGES$ for PXE initiated deployments.
For your operating system deployments that are initiated by using boot media, re-create your boot media after the distribution points are updated.

To do so, right-click the task sequences node under operating system deployment, and then select Create Task Sequence Media.

For the hotfix that is available to Operating System Deployment clients, take the following steps:

1. Update all boot images on all distribution points that are being used including the SMSPXEIMAGES$ for PXE initiated deployments.

2. For your operating system deployments that are initiated by using boot media, re-create your boot media after the distribution points are updated

· To do so, right-click the task sequences node under operating system deployment, and then select Create Task Sequence Media.

Note that I noticed a few errors in how this section was phrased/formatted in the article and I'm submitting a second update for the article.

Ryan Anderson's System Center Blog : BDPs

BDPs are not returned in content requests from OSD Clients - Update to KB942700