John,
I'm sure it depends on the environment. A couple months ago, I was working with a customer on this, and we attempted exactly that: inject updates into the 'factory' media. It messed up the WIM file, though I can't remember exactly what the symptoms were. They appeared to inject okay, after dealing with certain Endpoint Protection exclusions, but then during the deployment process, I think something went wrong during Setup Windows and ConfigMgr. Don't quote me on that. Cheers, Trevor Sullivan From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Marcum, John Sent: Monday, November 25, 2013 11:05 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [MDT-OSD] RE: TS failing after Updates How is that? When mine were failing at that step I called CSS. They told me it was because there were too many updates and suggested I do offline updates. I had to inject them into the factory media which scared the crap outta me but seems to work. _____ John Marcum Sr. Desktop Architect Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP _____ From: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Trevor Sullivan Sent: Monday, November 25, 2013 10:53 AM To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> Subject: RE: [MDT-OSD] RE: TS failing after Updates Mike, You're right, scheduled offline updates can certainly screw up your WIM file. Thankfully, the "feature" makes a backup of your WIM prior to destroying it. Cheers, Trevor Sullivan From: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Linkey, Mike Sent: Monday, November 25, 2013 10:50 AM To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> Subject: [MDT-OSD] RE: TS failing after Updates Thought I tried that once and it hosed up my wim file. I will look at it again though. From: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Miller, Todd Sent: Monday, November 25, 2013 10:39 AM To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> Subject: [MDT-OSD] RE: TS failing after Updates Investigate offline patching. Once the patches are "baked in" to your image, then there is no trouble deploying a WIM that already has these patches. You might also consider maintaining a separate update list for the deployment process apart from already deployed machines. The process to inject offline patches is the easier way out though. From: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Linkey, Mike Sent: Monday, November 25, 2013 10:14 AM To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> Subject: [MDT-OSD] RE: TS failing after Updates Well that stinks. How are you supposed to add them then? From reading, you have to install them like a package? From: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Nash Pherson Sent: Monday, November 25, 2013 9:08 AM To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> Subject: [MDT-OSD] RE: TS failing after Updates The resource which is running the task sequence can't have any Deployments of Software Update Groups that contain the Updates listed in this article: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2894518 They cause 2 reboots and the task sequence can't follow the system through the second reboot. From: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Linkey, Mike Sent: Monday, November 25, 2013 8:48 AM To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> Subject: [MDT-OSD] TS failing after Updates Not sure why this has started to happen, but when we put on a Windows 7 image via our TS now, it is failing when it trys to install the Windows updates. I disabled the step and it seems to work ok after that. So I am confused why all of the sudden this would start to happen. We have a Windows 8 TS and it works fine. Attached is the smsts.log file that has the issue in it. It almost seems as if that step is corrupting WMI somehow, but really don't have a clue why. Was hoping someone has seen something like this before. Mike L. _____ Notice: This UI Health Care e-mail (including attachments) is covered by the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, 18 U.S.C. 2510-2521, is confidential and may be legally privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any retention, dissemination, distribution, or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. Please reply to the sender that you have received the message in error, then delete it. Thank you. _____ _____ Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail is from a law firm and may be protected by the attorney-client or work product privileges. 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