Daniel is correct, I don't believe winpe evaluates the start time... so as soon 
as you PXE, it run because it doesn't know how to interpret the start time..

Same as the OS restriction trick on the Task Sequence, to hide it from the full 
OS but allow PXE to run it...

Chris Nackers
Microsoft MVP - Enterprise Client Management
Email: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
Nackers Consulting Services, LLC

From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On 
Behalf Of Daniel Ratliff
Sent: Tuesday, October 08, 2013 2:41 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: [MDT-OSD] SCCM OSD - Mandatory Ads Running Before Start Time

WinPE has limitations as opposed to the actual OS. Certain deployment settings 
such as expiration and in this case possible start time are ignored when booted 
directly into WinPE.

Microsoft told us this a few weeks ago when we were troubleshooting why WinPE 
could still see expired advertisements. As far as we got, there is not a 
definitive list of what WinPE supports and doesn't support but I know specific 
OS settings and expiration are not supported and basically ignored.

Daniel Ratliff

From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> 
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Niall Brady
Sent: Tuesday, October 08, 2013 3:32 PM
To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [MDT-OSD] SCCM OSD - Mandatory Ads Running Before Start Time

I dont use mandatory task sequences at all (risk outweighs benefit), but I'm 
curious was UTC checked or not ?

On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 9:02 PM, Marable, Mike 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
This one has us a bit troubled.

We set up an advertisement for an OSD task sequence.  It has a mandatory start 
time of let's say 6:00 pm.  We set the "Advertisement Start Time" to 5:45 pm in 
this example.

Our intent is that if a machine PXE boots before 5:45 pm it won't run the 
mandatory advertisement.

But it does.

The "Advertisement Start Time" is completely ignored and SCCM PXE boots the 
machine right into the OSD task sequence.

This is a problem because we have a "utility" task sequence that our desktop 
support staff can boot to for doing things like USMT backups, asset tracking, 
etc.  We may schedule a group of machines to go on Friday night, and staff will 
be out there in the days leading up doing the larger USMT backups and such.  If 
they PXE boot the machine jumps right into the build.

Are we missing something?

Mike


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