Keith, My mistake. . .I missed those updates in the list of hotfixes. I will dig into th task sequence failure more now; however, what is odd is that the ConfigMgr status message queries indicate a successful completion of the task sequence.
Thanks for your guidance. Jeff On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 11:34 AM, Keith Garner <[email protected]>wrote: > Jeff, > > > > You don't see any ztiwindowsupdate log messages because the Task Sequence * > *failed** for some reason, unrelated to ZTIWindowsUpdate. > > You need to address this problem first, you will need the smsts.log file > to determine the root cause of that problem. > > > > Additionally, you mention below that "THese updates are not part of the > WIM", however It appears that some of them **are** part of the wim: > 2545698 & 2529073. J > > > > -k > > > > *From:* [email protected] [mailto: > [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Jeff Poling > *Sent:* Friday, March 28, 2014 6:43 AM > > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* Re: [MDT-OSD] Fwd: [mssms] Excluding Windows Updates > > > > I ran another full test of the task sequence and confirmed some odd > behavior. I am attaching the bbd.log from the latest test. It shows the > excludes, but the ztiwindowsupdate.wsf output is not in the log. It is not > in any of the smsts.log files on the PC either. Also, at the end of the > bdd.log, it shows ztideployment failed, error code = 0. > > > > I am also attaching a list of updates installed on the PC, it clearly > shows updates that were specified as excluded are installed. THese updates > are not part of the WIM. > > > > Any additional insight is greatly appreciated. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Jeff > > > > On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 2:02 PM, Keith Garner <[email protected]> > wrote: > > I have reviewed the logs, and I see no problems with the way > ZTIWindowsUpdate.wsf is handling the exclude list. > > > > You imported the following items into your exclude list: > > Property WUMU_EXCLUDEKB001 is now = 2862330 > > Property WUMU_EXCLUDEKB002 is now = 2771431 > > Property WUMU_EXCLUDEKB003 is now = 2821895 > > Property WUMU_EXCLUDEKB004 is now = 2545698 > > Property WUMU_EXCLUDEKB005 is now = 2529073 > > Property WUMU_EXCLUDEKB006 is now = 2871690 > > > > However, Although the Windows Update Agent found 75 updates to install, > only one of the updates was in the exclude list. Specifically, which update > in the bdd.log file below were you expecting to be excluded? > > Perhaps you need to roll back your machine and try again. > > > > -k > > > > *From:* [email protected] [mailto: > [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Jeff Poling > *Sent:* Thursday, March 27, 2014 11:16 AM > *To:* [email protected] > > > *Subject:* Re: [MDT-OSD] Fwd: [mssms] Excluding Windows Updates > > > > Michael, > > > > The log is attached. This is at a client site, so I scrubbed all > identifiable information. After I looked at the log in more depth, it > appears it is excluding the first update, but not any of the others. The > section where it sets the WUMU_Exclude properties looks odd - it sets > WUMU_ExcludeKB = <update> multiple times, once for each update. I think > you will see what I mean when you look at the log. > > > > Thanks for any insight! > > > > Jeff > > > > On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 11:58 AM, Michael Niehaus < > [email protected]> wrote: > > Can you send the BDD.LOG? That might show what was going on. > > > > From your description, it might be that the CustomSettings.ini lines > aren't set up right, but it's hard to guess, much easier to confirm with > logs. > > > > Thanks, > > -Michael > > > > *From:* [email protected] [mailto: > [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Jeff Poling > *Sent:* Thursday, March 27, 2014 7:16 AM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* [MDT-OSD] Fwd: [mssms] Excluding Windows Updates > > > > I sent this to the ConfigMgr list, but I am hoping someone on this list > also has some experience fixing this issue: > > I have an MDT-integrated OSD task sequence in ConfigMgr 2012 that uses the > ztiWindowsUpdate.wsf script from MDT 2012 SP1 (the customer does not use > software updates in ConfigMgr). I am attempting to exclude the Windows > Updates that require multiple reboots. So far, I have added the > WUMU_ExcludeKB001= lines to the customsettings.ini but the updates still > get marked for INSTALL and not SKIP. I also tried adding the > WUMU_ExcludeKB001 as a task sequence variable per this recommendation: > > > http://ccmexec.com/2013/09/tips-when-building-images-with-configmgr-2012-part-2/ > > That did not work either. > > > > How do I get these updates excluded? It seems like the settings are not > being read from customsettings.ini. . . > > > > Has anyone seen this before? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Jeff > > > > > > > > > > >
