Dealing with a strange issue with MDT 2013. Our task sequences (all of them, doesn't matter if it's 2008 R2, 2012, or 2012 R2) seem to be randomly hanging at the Cleaning Drive or after getting to 100% Applying Image phase - no errors. If I open a command prompt before starting, then run a task sequence, when it gets to that part where it hangs, if I run diskpart it'll immediately continue. Don't have to enter any commands, just have to run diskpart. The logs don't show any errors - for instance, on one where it hung at 100% applying image:
<![LOG[Return code from command = 0]LOG]!><time="11:04:24.000+000" date="11-11-2013" component="LTIApply" context="" type="1" thread="" file="LTIApply">
<![LOG[Find the boot drive (if any) [True] [6.1.7601.17514] [False]]LOG]!><time="11:04:24.000+000" date="11-11-2013" component="LTIApply" context="" type="1" thread="" file="LTIApply">
Nothing after that - as soon as I run diskpart, the deployment will continue. I've tried this on several different Dell PowerEdge systems (M600, 1955, R710) and see the same random behavior. It happens about 50% of the time. I tried adding the latest PERC driver, and also tried disabling the PERC drivers entirely so it would just use in-box drivers with the same result. This was a MDT 2012 U1 installation that was upgraded to MDT 2013. Note that this does not happen when deploying to VMware virtual machines, only physical systems.
I'm at a loss ...
Jeff Graves, ORCS Web, Inc.