{"id":182,"date":"2008-04-18T13:47:16","date_gmt":"2008-04-18T13:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/andrius.kozeniauskas.com\/blog\/?p=182"},"modified":"2008-04-18T13:47:16","modified_gmt":"2008-04-18T13:47:16","slug":"sccm-failed-to-run-task-sequence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kozeniauskas.com\/itblog\/2008\/04\/18\/sccm-failed-to-run-task-sequence\/","title":{"rendered":"SCCM: Failed to Run Task Sequence"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here are couple steps to diagnose the “Failed to Run Task Sequence” error.
\nThe hole error looks like this:
\nThe task sequence cannot be run because a package referenced by the task sequence cannot be found. For more information please, contact your system administrator or helpdesk operator.<\/em><\/p>\n

Basically this error means that the problem is with\u00a0distribution of the package.
\nIt looks straight forward process if you have one or two packages in a task sequence. But can be a problem if the task sequence has many packages. The best way to find out which package or packages are causing the problem is to use the task sequence log Smsts.log<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

1. The log location depends how OSD was started. Here is a table from Microsoft which tell where the log file should be located.<\/p>\n

General location for all operating system deployment and task sequence log events.
\nLog file location:
\nIf task sequence completes when running in the full operating system with an Configuration Manager 2007 client installed on the computer: <CCM Install Dir>\\logs
\nIf task sequence completes when running in the full operating system with no Configuration Manager 2007 client installed on the computer: %temp%\\SMSTSLOG
\nIf task sequence completes when running in WindowsPE: <largest fixed partition>\\SMSTSLOG<\/em><\/p>\n

2. Open the log file with SMS Trace. SMS trace is one of the tools that you can find in SCCM 2007 Toolkit. You can download it from here<\/a>.
\nOnce you open the log file it will highlight the problems in Red.
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3. Find out which package is causing the problem. As you can se in my case it is MET00029.<\/p>\n

4. Open Configuration manager console and locate the package.<\/p>\n

5. The first thing to check is distribution points. Does the package has a distribution point and is it live. If everything is fine then go to next step. If not fix the problem and try to run Task sequence.<\/p>\n

6. Check The Package Status. The Source version should be more then 0 and the targeted and installed should match. If it does not match then go to distribution point and try to refresh it.
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Now go back to package status and check the logs.
\nTo do that right click on Package Status select Show Messages<\/strong> and All.
\n<\/strong>\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

This will ask you to enter the date and time. Leave defaults(1 day ago)
\n\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The log will open check error mesages and fix them. In my case the Distribution manager could not access source files.
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Hope that helps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here are couple steps to diagnose the “Failed to Run Task Sequence” error. The hole error looks like this: The task sequence cannot be run because a package referenced by the task sequence cannot be found. For more information please, contact your system administrator or helpdesk operator. Basically this error means that the problem is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,6],"tags":[119,187,219,262],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kozeniauskas.com\/itblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kozeniauskas.com\/itblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kozeniauskas.com\/itblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kozeniauskas.com\/itblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kozeniauskas.com\/itblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kozeniauskas.com\/itblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kozeniauskas.com\/itblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kozeniauskas.com\/itblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kozeniauskas.com\/itblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}