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User Guide of Dell Lifecycle Controller Integration Version 2.2 for Microsoft
System Center Configuration Manager.
What’s New
* Support for Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 deployment.
* Support for System Center 2012 Configuration Manager R2.
* Support for LC version 1.6 for Dell PowerEdge 11th Generation (11G) servers.
* Support for LC2 version 1.4.0.128 for Dell PowerEdge 12th Generation (12G) servers.
Important Notes
* DLCI 2.2 has minimum pre-requisite of Windows Server 2008 SP2 for the
site systems and server running Dell Provisioning Service (DPS).
* To update 11G firmware using FTP, first upgrade to DLCI 2.2 as DLCI 2.1 cannot update the LC and
iDRAC for Dell PowerEdge 11G servers using the latest FTP.
* 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