Unfortunately we are still supporting Windows Server 2008 non-R2 64-bit/32-bit
on rare occasions. There seems to be an issue where post-deployment of this OS
where we cannot see what updates are installed (PowerShell Get-Hotfix or query
Win32_QuickFixEngineering) because there are issues with windows servicing
(CBS). To remediate the issue we run KB947821 v35, copy some missing files to
%windir%\Temp\CheckSUR\servicing\Packages and then run KB947821 again. Works
like a champ outside of a task sequence! I take these steps out of the TS and
OSD completes all the way through with no issues.
What is happening in my case during OSD (SC2012R2 CM CU1) is it will run
KB947821 successfully (exit code 0 in execmgr) then the task sequence engine
just goes away and I see the CTRL+ALT+DEL screen. Unfortunately I was not able
to successfully increase the smsts.log size to see what's going on despite
following method 2 here:
http://www.windows-noob.com/forums/index.php?/topic/11071-how-can-i-increase-the-smstslog-file-size-for-pxe-based-os-deployments-using-system-center-2012-r2-configuration-manager/
and updating my client install properties in the task sequence to
CCMLOGMAXSIZE=2621440 CCMLOGMAXHISTORY=3.
So my questions are:1) What might I be doing wrong that is preventing the
logmaxhistory and size to increase?2) Anyone else successfully running KB947821
during OSD with success?
Gracias!
-Stephen
