Owner's Manual

User Guide of Dell Lifecycle Controller Integration Version 2.1 for Microsoft
System Center Configuration Manager.
What’s New
* Support for System Center 2012 Configuration Manager SP1
* Support for Windows Server 2012 deployment
* Support for Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8 (Admin Console)
* Support for LC2 version 1.1.5
* Support for installing Dell Lifecycle Controller Integration on a
Configuration Manager where SMS provider is installed on a system other than
the site server system.
Important Notes
* DLCI 2.1 has minimum pre-requisite of Windows Server 2008 SP2 for the
site systems and server running Dell Provisioning Service (DPS).
* When you deploy an operating system on a target system with iDRAC configured
in a shared network mode, the Windows PE environment may fail to startup on
the network drivers, causing the system to restart before reaching the task
sequence.
* If the Lifecycle Controller of a system is in use, the system is not
discovered.
* If the iDRAC version is older than the supported versions in any of the
target systems, the Boot to vFlash option in the Deploy Operating Systems
workflow may fail.
* When you are deploying an operating system using the Launch Config utility,
the advertisements of the task sequence are not displayed on the screen.
* If the target system has an older version of BIOS that does not support a
particular method, the following error message is displayed in the
DLCTaskManager.log file:Installed BIOS version does not support this
method.
* If the Lifecycle Controller of the target system is locked by another
process, the following error message is displayed in the DLCTaskManager.log
file: Lifecycle Controller is being used by another process.
* If you do not enter the service tag name of the target system correctly, the