I am working for a big organization and we have hundreds of field engineers around the globe that are all starting to use OSD with SCCM 2007.So far everything is going fine except for one big annoyance. I have 2 advertisement linked to the "Unknown Computers" collection, these 2 advertisements are advertising Windows XP. I have provided the techs with OSD Boot CD (PXE is not an option for us at the moment) and they can image the machine fine the first time they boot. (bare-metal scenario, systemunknown in SCCM.) But the second time they want to image the same machine they get the message that there are no task sequences available for this device, which makes sense because the second time SCCM/OSD knows the system so it is no longer unknown. The only option left is to manually delete the machine from the SCCM console so that they can image again.As the field engineers don't have permissions to delete objects in the SCCM Console I have to manually delete it for them. The number of sites that start using OSD is growing fast so I will have to perform this manual step more often every day.Ideally I would like the accomplish that when booted from OSD CD and the machine exists in SCCM database it gets deleted automatically before the task sequence is executed.I was looking at running a script with TSConfig.ini but I have not been able to find anything.Any help/advice is much appreciated

The other way to accomplish this would be to have the TS for imaging targeted to all xp systems (silent) so that when the CD is in you can image it but the adv doesn't push down to the machine, nor can the user run it from "Run adv programs"Idealy you have an OSD collection and the techshavetheabiliy to add/remove computers to this collection. Then they can add the computer to the collection, which has the TS to it. Then they boot from the CD and image the machine. When it is does either move it manually or have a script that runs at say midnight that removes (not delete) the machine from the collection so you don't re-image the machine by accident. http://www.sccm-tools.com http://sms-hints-tricks.blogspot.com

I don't mean to hyjack this thread but can you please explain how you create a 'silent' advertisement which is not shown on the client.Thanks,Robin

I was also wondering about that, but I think Matthew means something like described on page: http://myitforum.com/cs2/blogs/maikkoster/archive/2009/04/18/create-your-custom-boot-wizard-make-it-available-for-all-known-and-unknown-computers.aspx"Second advertise the Task sequence to the "All Systems" collection. Also keep it optional. We now have the problem that this "Boot Wizard only" Task Sequence will show up on every client if they click on "Run advertised program". It will actually not be a problem if a user runs this at the Task Sequence does not contain any step it could execute but it might lead to confusion. To avoid this simply limit the Task Sequence to run only on a small group of computers. Let's say all Windows 2000 machines or all 2008 Servers. Then you only need to inform a quite small amount of people what this is and that they don't need to be afraid of it" I dont see this asan option for me, but maybe it is for others.I can not just advertise something to all Windows 2000 computers (they do exist in my environment) and it sounds a bit sloppy to do it this way.

That will not work with an OSD Task sequence as there is no SCCM program used. And the advertisement doesn't have this option.

The Task Sequence itself has the option to be restricted by OS Type. Check the Advanced tab in th TS properties. Regards Maik

Did you ever get an answer to this. I feel your pain an work for a large enterprise organisation where suggestions here do not fit the bill. I actually have a script in place at the momnet where we use the IIS Web Service to delete the machine however in our sites the SQL servers are loaded a lot and we find that the machines dont always remove straight away so I am looking for another option to try now! Interested to hear your thoughts as teh post is quite oldLee Martin