Ive run into an issue that I havent seen mentioned anywhere so I thought I would ask here. I have deployment of all my images working fine. Last week I decided to try using the Offline Servicing feature to inject the Windows Updates into the images. I tested on one image and everything updated just as I expected. I did a second one and it also updated fine. When I did the third one, it failed. Digging into the issue, I discovered that it was using a drive that doesnt have enough space for it to extract and mount the WIM file, and then add all of the updates. This drive does have the NO_SMS_ON_DRIVE.SMS file, but apparently that doesnt apply to the offline servicing function. Does anybody know if there is a way to make this feature use a specific drive? All of my wim files and application sources are on my F: drive which has about 1TB free. The servicing function is using the E: drive, which only has about 20GB free. I would like to redirect the Offline Servicing to use F: if possible.
To my knowledge, no, this is hard coded as the drive where installed ConfigMgr I believe.
How big are your images that 20GB is not enough?
When I checked on images sizes, I noticed something odd. One of the images that was successful is actually larger than the image that failed. Now I'm confused as to what was happening when it filled the drive. The Win7.64 WIM that is failing the updates is 4.1GB. My Win8.64 WIM was successful and is 5.9GB
In the ConfigMgr_OfflineImageServicing folder, I found a copy of the WIM, a folder where it extracted the WIM to use for a mount point, and a lot of folders for each update that it was apparently going to apply. That folder was using up 22 GB and had the drive down to 350K of free space.
At this point, the only thing I can try is to finish cleaning up the mess it left behind in the ConfigMgr_OfflineImageServicing folder and then try running it again.
Hi TechRonW
I found this article yesterday which allowed me to move my Offline Serviceing to my Drive that hosts all my content. I hope it helps you.
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