Great post very useful, thanks.

I'm facing an issue with the definition updates. The Defender doesn't recognize the files i think. I placed the mpam-fe.exe and renamed it to mpam-fex64.exe at the root of the boot.wim. No luck till now :-(

Do you have any further advice?

regards,

Oliver

Sorry for the late response, as I was at MMS last week and not checking in on the blog responses.  Oliver, are you still having issues with th definition binary?

Great article, but the TS provided is not working because the following:

blogs.technet.com/.../configmgr-2007-osd-task-sequence-fails-with-task-sequence-cannot-continue-after-reboot-because-ts-manager-is-not-configured-to-auto-start-or-gina-is-not-installed.aspx

Should this work? :)

Thanks for the feedback, Flowman.  This may be an issue with Windows XP.  Our test team is going to try to reproduce this, and I'll update the blog comments after we've done that, and provide any adjustments that might be required to the TS.  Thanks again.

I'm unable to import the wim file into configmgr, it tells me the image needs to be finalized. Any suggestions on how to resolve this ? I'm using SCCM 2012 RTM and an extracted wim file from today.

Hello,

I am getting the same results as Jon.

Error: Errors

You can not import this boot image. Only finalized boot images are supported. For more information press F1.

Would be great to get this ability to work.

Thank You

I think this is because the windows offline defender pxe image is now based on windows 8 which is not supported by sccm 2012 rtm (sccm2012 sp1 should resolve this).

One would need an older defender image still using windows 7 pe. Plus you need to add WinPE-Scripting.cab and WinPE-WMI.cab to you boot.wim prior to importing it into sccm.

technet.microsoft.com/.../bb680372.aspx

I've performed these steps with the new cabs from the windows 8 adk but i fails giving me the finalized error, which leads me to the conclusion at the begining of my post. Can anyone clarify this ?

Hi Jim,

Thank you for responding.  I hope someone can post a link to the Windows 7 based WIM file so I can import into SCCM 2012.  Any article I come across references the Windows 8 based iso image.

Thank You

Thanks for the feedback.  Unfortunately, the link is now pointing to the WIM supported only in CM12 SP1, and we're working on adding a link to the CM12 RTM WIM.  We hope to have this resolved in the next couple of days.

Thanks,

Jason Githens

Microsoft - Configuration Manager

The links have been updated to provide WIMs for both ConfigMgr 2012 RTM, and ConfigMgr 2012 SP1 Beta.  Please post if you have any further issues.

Thanks,

Jason Githens - Microsoft - Configuration Manager

Hello Jason, thanks again for your effort. I was able to import the wim file. However, when running the task sequence Offline defender starts but exits with exit code 2152730626. I've copied the latest definition files to the root directory of the wim file and verified it's renamed to mpam-fex64.exe.

When i try launching the offlinescannershell.exe from the command line it tells me my definition files are not up to date, when i hit update it seems like defender is downloading new definitions and starts the scan.

I was unable to find out if and where a new definition file could have been written. I've also tried applying the update with mpam-fex64.exe -q but i'm getting "The subsystem needed to support the image type is not present." error message.

I've double checked, prior to posting, i've followed all your steps. Im going to try a 32-bit version of the wim file to see if the above problem applys there as well.

Hello, i was not able to perform a successfull scan with the old wim files. I set up a lab environment for cm 2012 sp1 and ran successfull scans for both x86 and x64. However the instruction renaming the file for x64 seems to be wrong. The scan did not start with the filename changed to mpam-fex64.exe, i renamed it to mpam-fe.exe and it worked like a charm.

Jason

Now that Configmgr 2012 SP1 has been released are the links for SP1 still valid or is there newer content I should be searching for? I had this solution in place for RTM and now want to update it.

Thanks for the great post!

@Ryan: i have finally upgraded to sccm 2012 sp1 and can confirm the links posted here work like a charm.

@Jason: are there any command line parameters for the offlinescannershell.exe ?

I would love to update the definitions in the task sequence.