Hi there,

i was wondering if somebody could help me resolve a issue i am having. 

I am trying to prepare several deployments to make them available after a specific time period. The problem is when i select a start time, the deployment already becomes available to devices.

I already tried to check en uncheck the UTC option, this makes no difference.

Anyone has some suggestions for me?

Thanks in advance

During the deployment you can use the Scheduling part of the deployment also to configure when the deployment will be available. This can be configured by selecting the box with Schedule when this deployment will become available.

Hi Peter,

that is the odd thing. When i create the deployment i use the option Schedule when this deployment will become available. But it still is available before this time.

Are you talking about PXE boot? 

At this point i am testing it in a virtual environment with a bootable iso.

Hi,

How do you set the available time and start time?

If you schedule a start time for a required task sequence that is earlier than the date and time when the task sequence is available, the Configuration Manager client downloads the task sequence at the scheduled start time.

We found out that this is not going to work. As the schedule is a SCCM policy and the machine is in WINPE and does not receive a SCCM policy at this point. 

When the SCCM agent is installed during the task sequence and gets initialized the task sequence failes because the deployment is expired. So the schedule works only when the machine is getting SCCM policies.

• Marked as answer by Michael deVries 31 minutes ago

We found out that this is not going to work. As the schedule is a SCCM policy and the machine is in WINPE and does not receive a SCCM policy at this point. 

When the SCCM agent is installed during the task sequence and gets initialized the task sequence failes because the deployment is expired. So the schedule works only when the machine is getting SCCM policies.

• Marked as answer by Michael deVries 30 minutes ago