Aaron@Shared

I have installed 365 with teams onto 4 of my images. All 4 work flawless when I image a PC and then authenticate into Office365 with their credentials. I am not downloading and installing from a EXE. I am using the 365 deployment toolkit and performing the install thru CMD and silently. Also, I am NOT opening any of the office apps before closing the VM.

I am assuming your referring to the SD Client. You can specify in the answer file to install the client and where it should point to. You do not want to install the client on the server. Then once installed, all machines will point to the server and show up in your list of computers.

16 minutes ago, dblameuser said:

I am having the same issue, was there a resolution to this issue?

I ended up switching from building the VMs and images on the server onto my workstation. I also use Virtualbox to create a master VM, then duplicate it and then make modifications from there.

Make sure your selecting "Offline deployment media" because "Boot Media" will boot to the SD Deployment and wait for you to give it the info, whereas the former will already have ALL the info needed, drivers, image file, answer file, etc.

Chris, you can use the User State Migration Feature when creating your answer file. It will backup the users data, settings, and app data and then restore them. I haven't tried this yet but I believe its possible. Also I believe you would have to specify in the answer file to join it to the domain as well.

Cant download attachments in this forum.

Jeff, The driver packs for the 600 G3 and G4 called HPElitePro600-800-G3 or G4. This PC was SmartDeployed and so are the other ones as well.

Wifi adapter driver:

I am on a 600 G4 device, but yes. It is occuring on those devices.

I updated the server to 2.0.3040 and the client on my PC has been updated as well. I am still seeing the errors.

On 4/1/2019 at 1:43 PM, SC1 said:

I'm fairly confident that SmartDeploy does not image Macintosh/OSX. Do any of you have recommendations for Mac/OSX or even ipad/android imaging software? 

Google search reveals that OSX imaging is dead: https://scriptingosx.com/2017/10/imaging-is-dead/

If it helps. I am running SD on Server 2012 R2 and using Windows 10 1809 images without any issues. We've imaged almost 160 computers with this configuration.

Not sure if this is helpful, but in your run command section, you need an argument there for it to know what to do. Here is mine for Office 2010. I don't think your building your unattended or silent install correctly. 

Screenshot:

On my work PC, I simply click on the Ethernet icon and then click on the Wireless icon. And I have noticed the errors coming back in after disabling the wifi.

Just now, Jeff Harris said:

Ok thanks Aaron. The greyed out text means the last heartbeat check didn't work. Good to see that some clients are still black, which means the client isn't failing.

I've shared this thread with some members of the team here to see if we can determine what's going on.

Jeff, thank you very much.

Aaron

Jeff,

In Computer Management, I am seeing 2 colors. Black and grey. I am not seeing any in bold text. Screenshot showing a PC getting the errors.

Just now, Jeff Harris said:

Interesting. Do these errors stop if you enable the wireless adapter?

Yes they do.

This is an error from my computer that was imaged with SmartDeploy. I am also seeing this on other computers imaged in the same way. These desktops have wifi cards but the wifi is disabled.

Here is a screenshot of the errors and how often they are happening.

Need some help identifying and stopping these errors in Windows 10 Event Viewer coming from SmartDeploy Console/Client Service. Here is the XML output of one of the errors.

- <Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
- <System>
  <Provider Name="SmartDeploy Console/Client Service" /> 
  <EventID Qualifiers="0">0</EventID> 
  <Level>2</Level> 
  <Task>0</Task> 
  <Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords> 
  <TimeCreated SystemTime="2019-04-09T16:06:16.008143200Z" /> 
  <EventRecordID>415043</EventRecordID> 
  <Channel>Application</Channel> 
  <Computer>HPC8420GJW.buckeyehq.com</Computer> 
  <Security /> 
  </System>
- <EventData>
  <Data>Exception: The wireless local area network interface is powered down and doesn't support the requested operation at Common.SmartDeploy.NativeMethods.#aMi(Int32 #bMi) at Common.SmartDeploy.Managers.WlanManager.WlanInterface.GetAvailableNetworkList(WlanGetAvailableNetworkFlags flags) at Common.SmartDeploy.Managers.WlanManager.GetAllConnectedWirelessNetworkProfiles() at SmartDeploy.ClientService.Communication.ServiceMonitor.UpdateWirelessNetworkProfile()</Data> 
  </EventData>
  </Event>

Thoughts?

Paul, this would be nice. But I can tell you this. If you re-SD a computer that you previously installed applications using an Application Pack installer, SD will automatically reinstall those apps onto that computer only after it has been imaged.

22 hours ago, Jeff Harris said:

Here's a link to the video; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlTa8KYyBAI

 

Can you test app deployment with one of the smaller apps we have available for download? It could be that port 8733 is being blocked along the way.

 

Jeff, thank you but I was able to get to get this working. I had to create an Unattended Installer with the Microsoft Office 2010 installer tool. But thank you for getting back to me on this.

Aaron

Ok. I have been able to get this working with custom software BUT I want to be able to get Office 2010 or 16 installed this way. When doing so, the files copy and the Bootstrap program runs but nothing installs. I checked the logs and this is what I am seeing:

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This request operation sent to net.tcp://10.98.110.194:8733/Design_Time_Addresses/SmartDeploy.ClientServiceWCF/Message/ did not receive a reply within the configured timeout (00:01:29.9990006).  The time allotted to this operation may have been a portion of a longer timeout.  This may be because the service is still processing the operation or because the service was unable to send a reply message.  Please consider increasing the operation timeout (by casting the channel/proxy to IContextChannel and setting the OperationTimeout property) and ensure that the service is able to connect to the client.

Can anyone help me with this error?  What arguments do I need to put into this for it to work?

Question:

I haven't noticed this in the recent build but I am curious if this is going to be implemented at all...but accurate timers.

I know Windows has historically had in-accurate timers for anything (downloading, deleting, moving, etc) but this has improved over time. However, I wish that when performing tasks in SmartDeploy that there would be a timer indicating how much longer (ETA) for the task to complete. I see this in the imaging screen but it is inaccurate because it only encompasses the imaging part but negates the platform pack and post imaging tasks.

It would be nice to have a timer when performing the following:
1. Importing a reference machine
2. Creating an image
3. Creating a deployment pack

Is this something that could be implemented?

Thanks,
Aaron

1 minute ago, Long@Foley said:

Has anyone who has successfully been able to get this to work document any basic steps?

 

I wish we could edit/view the pre-made app packs to get a good idea.

@Long@Foley I replied on my topic to you but you can edit their packs. Open Chrome and Firefox to get an idea of how to create yours.

1 minute ago, Long@Foley said:

In relation to this topic, we are having a problem using this feature. When I click to add, all of the fields are grayed out. What do I need to do to make this functionality work?

@Long@Foley You need to click on File, then New and then Save it. Once this is done, then you can add your files and your commands.

(They are working on documentation for this feature, fyi)

@Jeff Harris I am not seeing a video on this topic on the SmartDeploy YouTube channel.