Users Guide

Issues and resolutions

Issue 1

Issue: When you deploy an operating system on a target system with Integrated Dell Remote Access

Controller 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.

Resolution: This is because the network does not assign IP addresses fast enough. To avoid this issue,

ensure that you enable Spanning Tree and Fast Link on the network switch.

Issue 2

Issue: If the Lifecycle Controller of a system is in use, the system is not discovered.

Resolution: If a system does not show up in a collection, verify whether the log file contains the following

error message: Lifecycle Controller in use. If it contains the error message:

1. Ensure that the system is not in Power On Self Test (POST) state. A system is in POST state after it is

powered on and until it boots to an operating system through any media.

2. Power off the system and wait for ten minutes for it to show up in the collection.

Issue 3

Issue: The Create Lifecycle Controller Boot Media option may fail if you have not specified local folder

locations for the source and destination folders.

Resolution: Ensure that the source and destination paths used are local paths. For example, C:\ <folder

name>.

Issue 4

Issue: If the Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller 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.

Resolution: On a rack and tower server, ensure that it has Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller

version 1.3 firmware or newer. On a blade server, ensure that it has Integrated Dell Remote Access

Controller version 2.2 or newer.

Issue 5

Issue: When you are deploying an operating system using the Launch Config Utility, the advertisements

of the task sequence are not displayed on the screen.

Resolution: Ensure that you advertise against the exact collection you plan to deploy to, as

advertisements against a parent collection does not apply to the child collection(s).

Issue 6

Issue: While deploying Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 from ConfigMgr SP1 R2 with Windows

Automated Installation Kit (Windows AIK) 1.1, the following error message is displayed: