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MDT 2010 Update 1: Fixes to ConfigMgr Task Sequence Template Error Handling

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In MDT 2010, we restructured the ConfigMgr task sequence templates so that they had a common structure to them, with two main groups:

  • Execute Task Sequence
  • This group contained all the actual deployment tasks
  • Gather Logs and StateStore on Failure
  • If any of the steps in the main “Execute” step failed, this group would handle the cleanup:  copy logs to the network, move the state store to a safe location, etc.

But there was one problem in the setup in MDT 2010: the error was caught and the cleanup steps would run, but after that the task sequence would appear to complete successfully.  No dialog would be displayed indicating that there was a failure, and the status messages sent to the server would indicate that the task sequence was successful too .  If you were watching the results from the individual steps (watching for status message 11135 messages), you would see that there was an error though.

In MDT 2010 Update 1, we’ve updated each of the task sequence templates (and included the same logic in the new UDI template) to include two new steps to address this problem.  The first is named “Set Error Code” and (appropriately enough) captures the error code (e.g. everyone’s favorite –2147500037) into a task sequence variable.  The second step, named “Error in the task sequence”, then runs a new script (ZTIErrorMsg.wsf) whose only purpose is to force the task sequence to fail with that same error code.  That solves the problem.

So this is one of the main reasons to consider generating new ConfigMgr task sequences after installing MDT 2010 Update 1.

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Comments

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    MDT 2010 Update 1 fixes the problem so that it will again display an error.  Without Update 1, the status messages would show the error but there would be no error dialog on the client.

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    How does UDI work with Computer Replacement task?  If the application scan needs to take place on the old computer which has mappings and dependencies but the installation of what was selected in UDI to happen on the new computer (the replacement)?

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    Michael.  Does this mean we no longer get a display on the Task Sequence failure? I have noticed if we hit a failure, it properly logs and sends up this status message, but it just restarts the Task Sequence and back into whatever previous state is (even if that state is no bootable OS). Is there a way to configure the ZTI Task sequence to display the error message on a hard failure?