Intel NUC and SCCM issues

We purchased a couple of the Intel NUC mini desktops (model NUC5i3RYK) for our custom Lync Room systems.

Deploying with Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager...

Same with any new system... the Window PE boot image needed new drivers for the Ethernet adapter. (In our case the 64 bit driver - e1d64x64.inf)

Created a driver pack for the Intel NUC system, however the drivers were not getting installed into the image by the "Apply Device Drivers" task.

Decided to try the "Apply Driver Package" and picked the Intel NUC package option to see what would happen.

Now the task sequence fails with...
This task sequence cannot be run because a package referenced by the task sequence could not be found. For more information, please contact your system administrator or helpdesk operator.

Using F8 and cmtrace to open the \windows\temp\SMSTS.log file and found this error message...
Failed to resolve selected task sequence dependencies. Code(0x80040104)

Found this website and updated the distribution points so that the source version number would not be '1' and now the task sequence is working and drivers are installing.

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SCCM Task Sequence User Verification

We know that Config Manager's Task Sequences run with a system account and can only be advertised to Device collections.

What if we wanted only certain people to have permission to re-image their computer?

This script will record the logged in username via wmi as a Task Variable.
If that account is a member of a specific domain group then the 'ValidUser' Task Variable will be set as True.

You can then use that 'ValidUser' Task Variable to allow groups or other commands/applications to run.

To test the sequence with the msgbox dialogs you will need the ServiceUI.exe file from the Microsoft Development kit.

'Find Logged in user
'Version 1.60
on error resume next
Dim objNetwork, objDomain, oTaskSequence
'msgbox "Testing"
'Create Objects
Set objNetwork = CreateObject("Wscript.Network")
Set objDomain = GetObject("LDAP://RootDSE")
Set oTaskSequence = CreateObject ("Microsoft.SMS.TSEnvironment")

' Obtain user information.
'strUserName = objNetwork.UserName
strcomputer = "."

Set objWMI = GetObject("winmgmts:" & "{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\" & strComputer & "\root\cimv2") 
Set colSessions = objWMI.ExecQuery ("Select * from Win32_ComputerSystem",,48) 
For Each objItem in colSessions 
if objItem.Username <> "" then
strUserName = Replace(Lcase(objItem.UserName),"prairiesouth","")
oTaskSequence("UserName") = replace(strUserName,chr(92),"")
'msgbox strUserName
else
strUserName = objNetwork.UserName
end if
next

If not lcase(strUserName) = "system" then
'Verifies not the System account.
strDomain = objDomain.Get("dnsHostName")
Set objUser = GetObject("WinNT://" & strDomain & "/" & strUserName)
For Each strGroup in objUser.Groups
If Lcase(strGroup.Name) = "help desk end users" or Lcase(strGroup.Name) = "information technology department" then
strValid = 1
oTaskSequence("UserGroup") = strGroup.Name
'msgbox strGroup.Name
exit for
end if
Next
else
strValid = 0
end if

If strValid = 1 then
oTaskSequence("ValidUser") = "True"
'msgbox strValid
Else
oTaskSequence("ValidUser") = "False"
'msgbox strValid
end if

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Using SCCM 2012 Compliance Settings to Determine Hard Drive Health

As long as your computer has S.M.A.R.T hard drive diagnostic capabilities, the following can be used to track hard drive failures.

Configuration Item(s) in SCCM 2012.

Option 1 - Using WQL query

Name - Hard Drive Predictive Failure

Platforms - All (Although, if they are virtual machines this will not work.)

Settings -

• Name: Storage Driver Failure Prediction
• Type: WQL Query
• Data: String
• Namespace: root\wmi
• Class: MSStorageDriver_FailurePredictStatus
• Property:PredictFailure

Compliance Rules

• Name: Possible Hard Drive Failure is True
• I named it this to remind me that "False" is the result we want.
• Rule: Storage Driver Failure Prediction Equals False
• Noncompliance severity: Critical

 Option 2 - Using PowerShell script to read system event log

This option will read the System event log and count any 'disk' source logs that are not Information level. 
Note: This will include issues with temporarily attached external hard drives or USB drives.

Name - Event Log Disk Errors
Platforms - All (This will work for servers and virtual machines)
Settings

• Name: Report disk errors found in Event Log
• Type: Script
• Discovery script (See end of post)
• Counts the events and writes that value.

Compliance Rules

• Name: Disk error count
• Rule: Less than 1 (That's a number one)
• Noncompliance severity: Critical

Now that you have created the Configuration Items, you can add (one or both) to a Configuration Baseline and deploy them to your collections.

Once deployed create collections for the non compliant systems and then use that information in reports for your help desk or create a Task sequence that alerts the end user that the hard drive is may be failing.

Here's the PowerShell script...
- Updated Feb 3, 2015 to exclude '*Device\Harddisk1\DR1*' event logs.

#Version 2.30 Feb 3, 2015
#Designed for SCCM Baseline
$AllEvents = 0
#Default Event Logs
$Provider = "disk"
$HourChange = 24 #Up to you how far back you want to go
$TimeNow = [DateTime]::Now
$TimeChange = [DateTime]::Now.AddHours(-$HourChange)
#Check Event Log for errors
$EventLogNames = "System"
ForEach ($log in $EventLogNames){
    $entry = " "
    #Search Event Logs
   
    $LogEntry = Get-WinEvent -LogName $log | Where-Object {$_.timeCreated -ge $TimeChange -and $_.ProviderName -contains $Provider -and ($_.LevelDisplayName -eq 'Warning' -or $_.LevelDisplayName -eq 'Error' -or $_.LevelDisplayName -eq 'Critical')}
        ForEach ($entry in $LogEntry){
            $EvLevel = "Level: `t" + $entry.LevelDisplayName + $nl
            $EvEventID = "EventID: `t" + $entry.ID + $nl
            $EvMessage = "Message: `t" + $entry.Message + $nl
            $EvSource = "Source: `t" + $entry.ProviderName + $nl
            $EvTime = "Time Created: `t" + $entry.TimeCreated + $nl
            #write-host $EvLevel + $EvEventID + $EvMessage + $EvSource +$EvTime + $nl

            #If ($entry.LevelDisplayName -eq "Critical" -or $entry.LevelDisplayName -eq "Warning" -or $entry.LevelDisplayName -eq "Error"){
            If ($EvMessage.tostring() -like '*Device\Harddisk1\DR1*'){
                #nothing
            }
            ElseIf ($entry.LevelDisplayName -eq "Critical" -or $entry.LevelDisplayName -eq "Warning" -or $entry.LevelDisplayName -eq "Error"){
             $AllEvents += 1
            }
                       
        }
}
write-host $AllEvents


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