I have attempted several Win7 Enterprise Image Captures via a task sequence in SCCM 2007 R2. My taks sequence is set to install windows updates as I want an up-to-date image for the deployment staff to work with. The windows update step fails to install the vast majority of updates. Once the image is complete I see that the updates are listed in Windows update, but out of 51 updates only two install with sucess. Any thoughts as to what I might be missing? Where should I be looking to find any errors? Additionally, the image process takes an extremely long time with no noticeable progress on the Install Updates Task Sequence Screen.

How are you deploying the updates during the Build and Capture? Are all the updates available?My Blog: http://www.petervanderwoude.nl/

is the computer in a domain when getting the updates or workgroup ? is it in a collection that is targetted with the required updates ? My step by step SCCM Guides I'm on Twitter > ncbrady

I created an update list/package with all the current Win7 updates in SCCM and deployed it to the Unknown Computers Collection. Should I have done differently?

The computers are joined to my domain and appear in an AD container called workstations...How original eh....

I'm having issues with build and capture on Windows 7 . I have my lab PC with just the Windows 7 updates deployed, no XP or Office. There seems to be a limit to how many updates it will have before it stops working. I deployed around25 and ran the build and capture TS with no problems. I've now added another 10 and it gets stuck on the 'downloading updates' step. It justs sit on downloading update 1 or 34 and nothing happens. I never had an issues with this with XP. My TS s set up following Nialls windows noob step by step and works fine in everyway, except with this. Any help greatly appreciated as usual Andyandyt

try creating two deployment management tasks, one for the unknown computers collection, one for your deploy windows 7 collection, advertise the same udpates to both collections, then try the task again (install software updates) My step by step SCCM Guides I'm on Twitter > ncbrady

Tried that, no joy. My TS deploys a vanilla captured image (so I can run it quicker without doing the package from a CD) and tries to install the updates. The cut off sems to be around 28-30 though it does vary. I have tried deploying the Windows Update agent first, installing .net 4 first as its a large package, reboot before windows updates are applied. Still does the same thing. Unfortunately each change takes 1/2 hour to test even though I have an SSD in my image build machine which is screamingly fast (and getting burnt out at this rate). The update deployment log says this after the part where it lists every update. Not sure if the highlighted bits are normal Service startup system task UpdatesDeploymentAgent 19/10/2010 10:37:37 2708 (0x0A94) Software Updates feature is enabled UpdatesDeploymentAgent 19/10/2010 10:37:37 2708 (0x0A94) Timer started with cookie = 133 UpdatesDeploymentAgent 19/10/2010 10:37:37 2708 (0x0A94) Failed to retrieve current (user,session) pair (0x80070002). UpdatesDeploymentAgent 19/10/2010 10:37:37 2708 (0x0A94) ::GetSMSConsoleSessionId - No SMS console session found. UpdatesDeploymentAgent 19/10/2010 10:37:37 2708 (0x0A94) WTSQueryUserToken[2](SessionID=-1) failed with GLE=1008 UpdatesDeploymentAgent 19/10/2010 10:37:37 2708 (0x0A94) WTSQueryUserToken[2](SessionID=-1) failed with GLE=1008 UpdatesDeploymentAgent 19/10/2010 10:37:37 2708 (0x0A94) WTSQueryUserToken[2](SessionID=-1) failed with GLE=1008 UpdatesDeploymentAgent 19/10/2010 10:37:38 2708 (0x0A94) Error getting logged on user token. Code 0x800703f0 UpdatesDeploymentAgent 19/10/2010 10:37:38 2708 (0x0A94) No user is logged on UpdatesDeploymentAgent 19/10/2010 10:37:38 2708 (0x0A94) Total targeted updates = 68 UpdatesDeploymentAgent 19/10/2010 10:37:38 2708 (0x0A94) Failed to retrieve current (user,session) pair (0x80070002). UpdatesDeploymentAgent 19/10/2010 10:37:38 2708 (0x0A94) ::GetSMSConsoleSessionId - No SMS console session found. UpdatesDeploymentAgent 19/10/2010 10:37:38 2708 (0x0A94) WTSQueryUserToken[2](SessionID=-1) failed with GLE=1008 UpdatesDeploymentAgent 19/10/2010 10:37:38 2708 (0x0A94) WTSQueryUserToken[2](SessionID=-1) failed with GLE=1008 UpdatesDeploymentAgent 19/10/2010 10:37:39 2708 (0x0A94) WTSQueryUserToken[2](SessionID=-1) failed with GLE=1008 UpdatesDeploymentAgent 19/10/2010 10:37:39 2708 (0x0A94) Error getting logged on user token. Code 0x800703f0 UpdatesDeploymentAgent 19/10/2010 10:37:40 2708 (0x0A94) Total Pending reboot updates = 0 UpdatesDeploymentAgent 19/10/2010 10:37:40 2708 (0x0A94) No pending reboot updates at system restart. UpdatesDeploymentAgent 19/10/2010 10:37:40 2708 (0x0A94) Trying to resume UpdatesInstall job after service restart UpdatesDeploymentAgent 19/10/2010 10:37:40 2708 (0x0A94) Reconnected to the existing job ({007DF631-7374-47B7-8343-DE8C52CD879B}) successfully. UpdatesDeploymentAgent 19/10/2010 10:37:40 2708 (0x0A94) OnServiceWindowAvailable - No pending install assignment UpdatesDeploymentAgent 19/10/2010 10:37:40 2708 (0x0A94) Successfully registered for ServiceWindow Events UpdatesDeploymentAgent 19/10/2010 10:37:40 2708 (0x0A94) Successfully registered for TimeChange Event UpdatesDeploymentAgent 19/10/2010 10:37:40 2708 (0x0A94) Startup task completed UpdatesDeploymentAgent 19/10/2010 10:37:40 2708 (0x0A94)andyt

Hi, I had a lot of problems with deploying updates in this way. Random errors, random updates failed. Since I have forced a reboot juist before deploying updates (additional step in my task sequence) - everything is workong fine ! Hope this also helps in your situation.

Tried that but no luck, it only seems to work with less than 30 updates. I'm wondering if there is a size issue somewhere but no idea where to start looking, the total package of all my Windows 7 updates is 700meg and the TS sets the local cache to 8000.andyt

I would try to do the following just for test: In the TS: 1.Install windows updates 2.Reboot 3.Install windows updates (again) I have app. 140 updates for Windows 7 in two packages en it's about 400 MB.

Step 1 and 3 in this article could help... http://coreworx.blogspot.com/2010/08/configmgr-install-software-updates-task.html ...however step 3 is probably unsupported.

I would try to do the following just for test: In the TS: 1.Install windows updates 2.Reboot 3.Install windows updates (again) I have app. 140 updates for Windows 7 in two packages en it's about 400 MB. I would also try this method. The Install Software Updates task sequence step is hardcoded to run for a maximum of 30 minutes so this time might expire before all the updates have been installed. Adding the steps to reboot and Install Software Updates again will gives you an additional 30 minutes

I have a reboot step before my software update and that doesnt help. I also have packaged the latest Update client and installed that before the reboot and that doesnt help. The issue seems to be around distribution. It runs the windows updates scan stage fine then gets to the 'Downloading Windows Updates, downloading 1 of 34' and sits there forever. If I reduce the number to less than 30 it runs through fine. I might try creating a new Windows 7 package andf splitting the updates over 2 to see if that helps. This is obviously just me having this issue or the forums would be going mental aboutit but I can see what is causing it. XP works fine with >100 updates on build and captureandyt

Are you using a BITS enabled distribution point? Are there any errors in the DataTransferService.log file?

This has been fixed. I wasnt using a BITS DP, once I had set my 3 DPs up with IIS and WEBDAV, enabled the BITS setting on the DPs it started working fine. I'm not sure I understand why that is required for Build And Capture Task Sequences and there is nothing in the documentation I can see that says this is a requirement, but there you are. Its on, its working - on to something elseandyt