{"id":226,"date":"2015-06-26T08:04:25","date_gmt":"2015-06-26T06:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianlehrer.com\/?p=226"},"modified":"2015-06-26T08:04:25","modified_gmt":"2015-06-26T06:04:25","slug":"installing-novell-zen-works-client-in-sccm-osd-tasksequence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianlehrer.com\/?p=226","title":{"rendered":"Installing Novell ZEN-Works Client in SCCM OSD Tasksequence"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Hi there,<\/p>\n

I know, I know, why would you install the ZENworks Client when you got SCCM? Well, sometimes that\u00b4s just the way it is…<\/p>\n

Installting the ZENwork Clients is not as easy as it may seem. There is an installer that brings everything needed and so I started by just running that installer during the OSD Tasksequence. But the result was really disappointing: Sometimes the Installation would work, sometimes not, sometimes the device would be registered, sometimes the device would remain in a state where it was impossible to repair the ZENwork Client.<\/p>\n

Nearly giving up, I searched again and found a blog post<\/a> by Vaughn Miller, where he describes how he installs the ZENworks Client with MDT.<\/p>\n

Long Story short: The ZENworks installer starts up to 52<\/strong> separate installers. The last one it starts is called Setup.exe. Voughn wrote a vbs-script waiting for this Setup.exe and stopping the script when this Setup.exe has finished.<\/p>\n

Beeing a PowerShell Guy, I rewrote the script and put this script into the OSD Tasksequence:<\/p>\n

Here is the script:<\/p>\n

\n

D:\\yourfiles\\ZCM\\PreAgentPkg_AgentCompleteX64.exe<\/span> -q<\/span> -x<\/span><\/p>\n

$loop<\/span><\/span><\/span> =<\/span><\/span><\/span> 1<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

do<\/span><\/span><\/span> {<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Start-Sleep<\/span><\/span><\/span> 5<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

$isrunning<\/span><\/span><\/span> =<\/span><\/span><\/span> get-process<\/span><\/span><\/span> setup<\/span><\/span><\/span> -ErrorAction<\/span><\/span><\/span> SilentlyContinue<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

if<\/span><\/span><\/span> (<\/span><\/span>$isrunning<\/span><\/span><\/span>) {<\/span><\/span>$loop<\/span><\/span><\/span> =<\/span><\/span><\/span> 0<\/span><\/span><\/span>}<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

}<\/p>\n

until<\/span><\/span><\/span> (<\/span><\/span>$loop<\/span><\/span><\/span> -eq<\/span><\/span><\/span> 0<\/span><\/span><\/span>)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

$2ndloop<\/span><\/span><\/span> =<\/span><\/span><\/span> 1<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

do<\/span><\/span><\/span> {<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Start-Sleep<\/span><\/span><\/span> 5<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

$isrunning<\/span><\/span><\/span> =<\/span><\/span><\/span> get-process<\/span><\/span><\/span> setup<\/span><\/span><\/span> -ErrorAction<\/span><\/span><\/span> SilentlyContinue<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

if<\/span><\/span><\/span> (<\/span><\/span>!<\/span><\/span><\/span>$isrunning<\/span><\/span><\/span>) {<\/span><\/span>$2ndloop<\/span><\/span><\/span> =<\/span><\/span><\/span> 0<\/span><\/span><\/span>}<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

}<\/p>\n

until<\/span><\/span><\/span> (<\/span><\/span>$2ndloop<\/span><\/span><\/span> -eq<\/span><\/span><\/span> 0<\/span><\/span><\/span>)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\n

What is this script doing?<\/p>\n

1. It starts the installer<\/p>\n

2. It checks if Setup.exe is running (in a Loop)<\/p>\n

3. When Setup.exe is running, it checks if Setup.exe is not running any more<\/p>\n

4. The script finishes.<\/p>\n

Now we can put this script in a Package, distribute it to our DPs and run it in the OSD Tasksequence.<\/p>\n

The tasksequence will wait until the script is finished and proceed to the next step.<\/p>\n

As a result we get the ZCM-agent installed and the device registered in ZENworks correctly. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Thanks to Voughn!<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hi there, I know, I know, why would you install the ZENworks Client when you got SCCM? Well, sometimes that\u00b4s just the way it is… Installting the ZENwork Clients is not as easy as it may seem. There is an installer that brings everything needed and so I started by just running that installer during…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[126,83,125],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianlehrer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianlehrer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianlehrer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianlehrer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianlehrer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=226"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/christianlehrer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":228,"href":"https:\/\/christianlehrer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226\/revisions\/228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianlehrer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianlehrer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianlehrer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}