Recently I discovered a really annoyoing issue when:
Error message: ZTIWindowsupdate has run And Failed too Many Times. Microsoft – Printer 6/21/2006 12:00:00 AM 10.0.15063.0
Deploying with MDT
NO WSUS
Both Windows 10 1703 and Windows 10 1709
Here´s the issue, when running the Windows update step in the MDT, it hangs on some Updates
Biggest question, What it is?
Its two drivers,
Microsoft to PDF
XPS Services
And somehow it causes the Windows update to retry, retry and retry. Its simply cant succeed. These updates are not in the WSUS just when you going to microsoft.com
My solution is to “Disable” the feature before the updates, and “Enable” them after the updates. Because of bad drivers from Microsoft.
The solution:
1. First, Open the Task Sequence that you are deploying.
2. Add a Step into the task sequence. (Make sure you add it After Windows is Installed, Add it just before Windows update is running.)
Add\Roles\Uninstall Roles and Features
3. Check Microsoft Print to PDF
4. Check XPS Services
5. Then We add a new step in the task sequence. Pretty down in the task sequence. Just before “Apply Local GPO Package”
Add\Roles\Install Roles and Features
6. Check Microsoft Print to PDF
7. Check XPS Services
8. Then apply
9. Update your Deploymentshare and try again. On my machine, it solved the issue. Good luck!
/Pontus
Thank you so much for this! I thought I was going insane when I kept seeing this driver come through my deployments.
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Thank you!! Just ran into this for a new deployment. So annoying.
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No problems, Thank you for reading!
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Patricia Mautner Absolut zu empfehlen!!! Gerechtfertigte Preise nicht überteuert. Keine lange Wartezeit, der Schlsseldient war sehr schnell da. Freundliches und kompetentes Team.
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MonsterNinjaBeats Habe meinen Schlüssel im Haus vergessen und mir wurde sehr schnell geholfen, ohne das Schloss zu beschädigen. Preislich war der Schlsseldient auch sehr gut.
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Just curious, now that I’ve added these steps into the task sequence.. an extra step is presented asking what roles should be installed during deployment. Is there anyway that this can be removed?
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Hey! Its posible , you need to have a rule in the customsettings.insi that skips the role part in the wizard, like this image: https://imgur.com/a/zv5PYMT
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Hey Sam! Sorry for not answering, Do you mean the wizard? in the customsettings.ini file, you can add “SkipRoles=YES” If you want to skip roles, or have them shown you change it to “SkipRoles=NO 🙂
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