One of the way to deploy a Windows image via System Center Configuration Manager is with Media Device. This can be a good idea when PXE is not available or you want create a parallel procedure to test the solution before go in production. With SCCM is possible generate a USB or an ISO with the entire Task Sequence or just WinPE.
Sometimes you can find a big problem when you try to generate the bootable media; the detail of CreateMediaTS.log show the error 0x80070003 as showed in figure 1.
Figure 1 – Error 80070003
After a long troubleshooting a found a possible reason: the boot.wim model! As you know, into a .wim file is possible include many images that you can manage with Dism or PowerShell, as showed in figure 2.
Figure 2 – Boot Image in PowerShell
SCCM cannot manage more then one image into .wim, figure 3, file so is necessary delete one of these.
Figure 3 – Boot Image in SCCM
This is the procedure:
- Copy a new boot.wim into a root of SCCM CAS/PS
- Run prompt as Admin
- Locate the folder where imagex is installed
- Execute this command: imageX /export C:\boot.wim 2 C:\setup.wim
- Import the new wim into SCCM
Remember that you must change also the Boot target into all Task Sequences, as showed in figure 4.
Figure 4 – Change TS Target
Now you can retry to generate the Bootable Media and voilà!
Figure 5 – Task Completed
This activity is necessary for all of kind of OS Images: Windows 7, 8.1 or 10, 32 bit or 64 bit.
S