I am having trouble with patching during OSD, but I don't think it is really a problem with patching. I think it is a problem with group membership and computing group membership during the OSD Task Sequence.
In each TS, I direct member add the computer to the patch collection via Webservice early in the TS - before the WIM is applied. I have verified that the computer account has been added to the collection appropriately. Right clicking on the object in the console shows it is targeted for all the patches I am expecting. When the computer gets to the Install Software Updates task, no patches are detected as required and the process exits in less than a second. There is no error logged in the task sequence - just a no patches to install message. As an experiment, I changed the target of the patch deployment to the same collection as the OSD Task sequence. This made the machine patch correctly in the TS step. So I am curious about the mechanics of this and how/when the group membership is computed. Is there any method exposed that I can call to have the computer or SCCM recompute the group membership during the task sequence? I would like to add the computer to a collection that has the patches targeted rather than create a patch deployment for each of my 8 OSD collections. My next experiment will be to add the machine to both the patch target collection and the OSD collection prior to the Task Sequence launch, and then test to see if the patches apply normally or if the patch deployment must target directly the same collection as the OSD target collection. ________________________________ 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. ________________________________
