I'm Rob Marshall, a consultant who specialises in the Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager product. I like to share, i do so by blogging and helping out when I can in the MS SMS newsgroups and participating in the ConfigMgr MVP program.
I was awarded and joined the program in 2009. It'd be an understatement to say it has to be one of the best experiences an IT engineer can have, if they really enjoy specialising in a product.
My biggest weapon for troubleshooting is, my formidable knowledge, no, only joking, you, the community. I find if I cannot answer a question, then I can usually find the answer from using Bing\Google, pouring over the documentation, and if that doesn't work, tinkering in mine or someone elses virtual lab.
The blogs pretty much about ConfigMgr, but it is also a platform for me to express my random urges to display something I've stumbled across, and that I imagine would entertain you or what not as equally as it did me.
Over on the ConfigMgr Support team blog they have a write up on how to setup a TS to deploy Win7 images
http://blogs.technet.com/b/configurationmgr/archive/2010/04/12/how-to-set-up-a-task-sequence-to-deploy-windows-7-images-captured-via-an-sccm-2007-capture-cd.aspx
When a Task Sequence is created via the "Create New Task Sequence Wizard", the Task Sequence may fail if the Windows OS being deployed is Windows 7 and the reference Windows 7 WIM image being deployed was manually created and then captured using the SCCM 2007 Capture CD.
The Task Sequence Error dialog may show one of the following errors:
Error 1
Task Sequence: <Task_Sequence_Name> has failed with the error code (0x8000FFFF). For more information, please contact your system administrator or helpdesk operator.
Error 2
Task Sequence: <Task_Sequence_Name> has failed with the error code (0x80070070). For more information, please contact your system administrator or helpdesk operator.
Examining the SMSTS.log(s) reveals one or more of the following errors:
Partition 1 larger than remaining disk space. Requested partition size: <X>, remaining size: <Value_smaller_than_X> OSDDiskPart LoadPartitionConfiguration( i, oDisk, cbDiskSize, cbContainerPartitionSize, pCurPartition), HRESULT=8000ffff (e:\nts_sms_fre\sms\client\osdeployment\osddiskpart\main.cpp,751) OSDDiskPart LoadDiskConfiguration(oDisk), HRESULT=8000ffff (e:\nts_sms_fre\sms\client\osdeployment\osddiskpart\main.cpp,1412) OSDDiskPart Invalid configuration specified. Please ensure that the task sequence is properly configured. OSDDiskPart OSDDiskPart.exe failed: 0x8000ffff OSDDiskPart Process completed with exit code 2147549183 TSManager !--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------! TSManager Failed to run the action: Partition Disk. Catastrophic failure (Error: 8000FFFF; Source: Windows) TSManager The execution of the group (Install Operating System) has failed and the execution has been aborted. An action failed. Operation aborted (Error: 80004004; Source: Windows) TSManager Failed to run the last action: Partition Disk. Execution of task sequence failed. Catastrophic failure (Error: 8000FFFF; Source: Windows) TSManager
Successfully wiped C:\ ApplyOperatingSystem Applying image to C:\ ApplyOperatingSystem Applying image 2 to volume C: ApplyOperatingSystem WIM error:C:\Windows\winsxs\x86_microsoft-windows-mulanttsvoiceenudsk_31bf3856ad364e35_6.1.7600.16385_none_0f51daf70520cd99\M1033DSK.CSD. There is not enough space on the disk. (Error: 80070070; Source: Windows) ApplyOperatingSystem WIMApplyImage( hVolumeImage, [Read More...]