hi Kevin the following will do refreshes from PXE even if BitLockered as long as you've an MBAM back end, do you ?
https://www.niallbrady.com/2016/05/17/introducing-the-windows-10-uefi-bitlocker-frontend-for-system-center-configuration-manager-current-branch/ On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 2:25 PM, Jerousek, Jeff <jeff.jerou...@lrs.com> wrote: > How are you deploying the Task Sequence? > > > > Is this set? > > > > If you don’t tell it to access content directly it tries to download it on > to a disk, if it’s bitLocked it can’t download anything. > > > > Niall Brady has some interesting posts on creating a partition for this > when doing an In-Place Install on a bitLocked drive. > > > > Thanks, > > Jeff Jerousek <jeff.jerou...@lrs.com> > > > > *From:* listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsadmin@lists. > myitforum.com] *On Behalf Of *Kevin Johnston > *Sent:* Friday, March 24, 2017 7:50 AM > *To:* mssms@lists.myitforum.com > *Subject:* [mssms] RE: Reimaging a Dell that has UEFI enabled - fails > > > > I should note that we also have a task sequence where we deploy Windows 7 > with bitlocker. > > We have no issues reimaging these machines. We do not get any errors. > > > > It seems weird that on a UEFI system a reimage fails. > > > > Also a note that the out of box Dell we got, was already bitlockered, so > when we ran the TS to reimage it, we had no issues until we wanted to > reimage the machine. > > > > I guess I need to dig a lot deeper into what is happening in bitlocker > that may be causing this issue. > > > > Kevin > > > > *From:* listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsadmin@lists. > myitforum.com <listsad...@lists.myitforum.com>] *On Behalf Of *Marable, > Mike > *Sent:* Friday, March 24, 2017 8:08 AM > *To:* mssms@lists.myitforum.com > *Subject:* [BULK] [mssms] RE: Reimaging a Dell that has UEFI enabled - > fails > *Importance:* Low > > > > When you attempt the 2nd build (where you’re getting the error) is it > originating from a PXE boot or is the task sequence starting from within > the full OS? > > > > If you’re PXE booting it, do you have a script to unlock BitLocker so that > WinPE can access the disk? If not then that is probably what is causing > the problem. You PXE boot and WinPE cannot access the BitLocker encrypted > drive. It sees that the drive is there but it cannot access the > partition(s) so it kicks back the error that the drive must be formatted. > > > > Mike > > > > > > > > *From:* listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsadmin@lists. > myitforum.com <listsad...@lists.myitforum.com>] *On Behalf Of *Kevin > Johnston > *Sent:* Friday, March 24, 2017 7:33 AM > *To:* mssms@lists.myitforum.com > *Subject:* [mssms] RE: Reimaging a Dell that has UEFI enabled - fails > > > > Yes the drive is using bitlocker. > > > > Kevin > > > > *From:* listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsadmin@lists. > myitforum.com <listsad...@lists.myitforum.com>] *On Behalf Of *Marable, > Mike > *Sent:* Friday, March 24, 2017 7:14 AM > *To:* mssms@lists.myitforum.com > *Subject:* [BULK] [mssms] RE: Reimaging a Dell that has UEFI enabled - > fails > *Importance:* Low > > > > Are you encrypting the drive at all? > > > > Mike > > > > > > *From:* listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsadmin@lists. > myitforum.com <listsad...@lists.myitforum.com>] *On Behalf Of *Kevin > Johnston > *Sent:* Friday, March 24, 2017 6:46 AM > *To:* mssms@lists.myitforum.com > *Subject:* [mssms] Reimaging a Dell that has UEFI enabled - fails > > > > We have a brand new out of the box Dell E7270 Latitude. The machine comes > with UEFI already configured and we are imaging it with Windows 10. > > > > We PXE boot the machine, go through our SCCM task sequences to image the > machine and everything appears to be great. > > > > We take this same machine we just imaged, remove it from SCCM and go to > reimage this machine and right after we choose our Win10 Task Sequence we > get the following message every time: > > > > “The task sequence was unable to locate a logical drive. The hard disk > will need to be partitioned and formatted. Click OK to continue or Cancel > to exit the task sequence” > > > > We have a bunch of older machines, that we do a BIOS to UEFI (which works > fine) TS then image the machine same as above but again, when we want to > reimage the same machine we get that same error each time. > > > > What we have done in the past is before we have to put in our SCCM TS > password, we hit F8 and do a diskpart manually to wipe the disk, but this > seems counter intuitive as the task sequence should be able to wipe the > drive anyways as part of the task sequence. > > Plus when we do this, it does not seem to image properly after words > meaning it fails each time. > > > > Has anyone seen this issue before? Is there something different we need to > add to our TS in order for this to work? > > > > Thanks, > > > > KEVIN JOHNSTON > > > > > > ********************************************************** > Electronic Mail is not secure, may not be read every day, and should not > be used for urgent or sensitive issues > > > > > > ********************************************************** > Electronic Mail is not secure, may not be read every day, and should not > be used for urgent or sensitive issues > > > > > >
