PENDING Capture Windows 7 Using SCCM 2012 R2 issue

[Witchdoc59]

I am following the 'Capture Windows 7 Using SCCM 2012 R2' tutorial. However my capture media keeps coming up as unbootable. I've tried using the x64 and x86 boot wim. Tried building a USB and CD image. Tried 2 different DPs. Nothing is working. I've tried a virtual computer, a physical dell computer and physical HP laptop. All of the computers come up saying the disk is not bootable.

Hope someone can help.
All and any comments or suggestions are greatly appreciated.
WD

 

[Prajwal Desai]

what's the extension that you used to save the capture media file ?. You must first enable the command support on both the boot images(x64 and x86) and then distribute it to the distribution point.

 

[Witchdoc59]

Hi All;

I was fighting the flu when I was trying to learn this material. I didn't realize that the capture media was not supposed to be bootable. Once I realized that you run the capture media from the model computer then I was good to go. I had an image captured in no time at all.

However now I'm fighting with deploying the image to a virtual computer. I'm getting a dialog box that says Failed to Run Task Sequence, seems something is not distributed properly to the distribution point.

Thanks for the great tutorial.
DS

 

[Prajwal Desai]

What is the error code when it says failed to run TS. You need to check the SMSTS.log file for error info.

 

[Witchdoc59]

Thank you for your response. I was able to figure out what the problem was. I had transferred my virtual test environment from home to work and in doing so the networking got messed up. So the SCCM environment didn't have any boundaries. Once I created a boundary and associated the SCCM machine with it then everything started working. However I had one further failure because when I created the task sequence I specified the 1-1 part of the image instead of the 2-2. Second attempt worked perfectly.

I am now going to have to figure out how to capture and deploy multiple partitions. I have 2 computer labs, 40 computer, that have specific software installed on the C: drive however the software has to be configured to store it's data on another drive, we use T: as the drive letter. This piece of software cannot be distributed by SCCM so I have to install it on a model computer, create the folder structure on the T: drive then configure the software to store to the T: drive. Then capture an image of the model and deploy the image to the lab computers. Easily done with Norton Ghost if you are using Windows 7. But once we move to Win10 then we need to have SCCM capture and deploy working for this.

Thanks again for your great tutorial and assistance.
DS