Ok, so what most people don’t know is that MS worked long and hard on a deployment type called hybrid media. Did some work with this when 2007 was new and fresh, so memory is a bit sketchy… But since the SMS team not often clean things out its probably still there.
This involved a WinPE booted media that had all the content (packages etc.) cached locally and could be on different USB sticks or HDD etc. So it was still talking to the MP as a regular deployment, just getting content from the media instead of the DP. That said, the offline media has everything needed in order to send data to an MP. And if it doesn’t, you sure can add it. That said, we can sure send status from WinPE media, currently the only requirement is that you have .Net and that I get around to release the code that does it. What kind of kinky scenario did you have in mind Jason? Do you want to send your own messages or do you want the deployment (i.e. the tasks in the TS) to send messages? //Andreas From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jason Wallace Sent: den 26 februari 2016 20:56 To: [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: RE: [mssms] Sending State messages Somehow I suspected that you might be the one to answer. Thank you Sent from Outlook Mobile<http://aka.ms/vwm83r>. Yes, it works with gmail. On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 11:55 AM -0800, "Phil Wilcock" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Hi, Yeah we generate state messages in iPXE-boot-land so programmatically it is possible. One for Junior 2Pint? Phil From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jason Wallace Sent: 26 February 2016 17:30 To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: [mssms] Sending State messages Hi there folks I have just been asked an interesting question that I don’t know the answer to. We are deploying Windows 10 via stand alone media but we will have these clients on the network while we are deploying. Is it possible in stand-alone media to still generate stat(e)/(us) messages on demand that we can use? Presumably the answer for Status Messages is that unless these are sent by an authenticated client then they will be rejected, but is it possible to programmatically send state messages to the FSP and have these enter that database so that we can then report upon them? In the past I’ve sneaked a tool from 2Pint to build custom Status messages but this is the first time that I’ve had a need to generate progress messages from a stand-alone media device. Many thanks Jason
