Thanks, I just chimed in on that thread with something that didn't help,
Jason also just mentioned something interesting here .

 

From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
On Behalf Of Johns, Damon (DoJ)
Sent: 28 October 2013 19:54
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: [mssms] RE: Slow download in 2012 R2 WinPe

 

Replied to your thread Robert and posted my info.

 

There isn't really anything else that stands out in my mind. We are not
using IP Helpers rather DHCP PXE options - maybe that is the common setting?

 

Cheers

Damon

 

From: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Robert Marshall
Sent: Monday, 28 October 2013 9:16 PM
To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> 
Subject: RE: [mssms] RE: Slow download in 2012 R2 WinPe

 

Then it is not a Hypervisor causing this :( Shucks!

 

Another additional test could be to see how the OS build performs once it
exits the WINPE phase, and gets into a full blown OS. Try to get it to
download some big applications or even a dummy package containing GB's of
content (so a time check can be performed) before the TS completes, and see
if during the Full OS + ConfigMgr Client phase you are still seeing the
delay. If it is purely a WINPE issue then we should see a difference. From
what others have said on that thread it doesn't look to be a server-side
issue, so we should see it flap between bad performance and good performance
inside\outside of WINPE.

 

Damon thanks for dumping your configuration and steps, that kind of info
really helps. Have you had any patches dropped on there, non-standard out of
the norm patches? Have there been any changes to the OS deep down, registry,
WMI, anything done to it? Any Change\Control logged for your box, indicating
what's been done to it over its life time in terms of exotic change?

 

That thread link, can you guys drop some of the comments you've made here
into the thread? Expanding out the "environment" information in the thread
will help CSS who will be looking for additional information.

 

What an awesome list this is .

 

Robert

 

From: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Johns, Damon (DoJ)
Sent: 28 October 2013 09:59
To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> 
Subject: RE: [mssms] RE: Slow download in 2012 R2 WinPe

 

My environment is running on physical hardware - no virtualization across
any of the components...sorry should have mentioned that.

 

 

From: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Niall Brady
Sent: Monday, 28 October 2013 8:48 PM
To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> 
Subject: Re: [mssms] RE: Slow download in 2012 R2 WinPe

 

it seems that others that are seeing
<http://www.windows-noob.com/forums/index.php?/topic/9312-slow-image-deploym
ent-download-since-sccm-2012-r2-upgrade/#entry35196>  this have Vmware back
end servers, could this be part of the problem (only reason I'm saying this
is I havn't seen the issue and i'm using hyperV only) ?

 

On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 10:39 AM, Johns, Damon (DoJ)
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >
wrote:

Hi Robert,

 

My configuration prior to the upgrade was Config Mgr 2012 SP1 with MDT 2012
Update 1 integration enabled - Boot images were MDT WinPE 4.0 generated
within the Config Mgr console with Dart v7. OS wim files etc downloading
normally under WinPE. This was running on a fully patched Server 2008 R2
instance with local minimum SQL 2008 R2 level DB instance.

 

My PXE enabled DP's are also running Server 2008 R2. I had one instance of
WDS failing on one of the DP's after the upgrade, removing WDS and
reinstalling the role corrected the problem.

 

Upgrade path as follows:

 

Uninstalled ADK 8.0 via add remove programs

Installed ADK 8.1

Installed MDT 2013 which updated the MDT 2012 Update 1 instance

Installed Config Manager 2012 R2

Re-ran MDT Integration following successful upgrade to R2

Removed existing WinPE 4.0 boot images from distribution points and left
them intact within the console

Created new MDT 2013 generated WinPE 5.0 boot images and replicated to DPs

Created new MDT 2013 files package in Config Mgr after upgrading my MDT
deployment share

Adjusted Task Sequences etc, etc

 

I do have the Dart 7.0 components in my MDT WinPE 5.0 boot images however I
don't believe this is related to the slow downloads within the PE
environment. No other additional components have been added when creating
the WinPE 5.0 boot images and I don't have any additional files or pre-exec
hook's built into the boot images. Just standard MDT generated with the Dart
7.0 component.

 

OS wim files were captured using MDT 2012 Update 1 (for Win 7) and MDT 2013
(for Win 8.1) with standard sysprep and capture TS. Source wim images built
and captured using Hyper V on Windows 8 Enterprise.

 

Hope a fix is found soon!

 

Cheers

Damon

 

 

From: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
[mailto:[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]> ] On Behalf Of Robert Marshall
Sent: Monday, 28 October 2013 7:59 PM
To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> 
Subject: RE: [mssms] RE: Slow download in 2012 R2 WinPe

 

>From the thread, it seems several have logged with CSS, should be quick now.

 

Is there anything "Exotic" about your configuration that stands right out?
Anything done to these OS, there is a variable involved here, some are
seeing the issue and others are not :(

 

Robert

 

From: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jason Sandys
Sent: 28 October 2013 01:02
To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> 
Subject: [mssms] RE: Slow download in 2012 R2 WinPe

 

They've had a hard time repro-ing this internally but are well aware of the
many folks having the issue and are actively working to address it. Your
best bet is to contact CSS and provide information about the environment and
issue - the more info that they have, the better they will be able to find
the root cause and provide the fix (whether that be code or configuration).

 

J

 

From: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Johns, Damon (DoJ)
Sent: Sunday, October 27, 2013 7:36 PM
To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> 
Subject: [mssms] Slow download in 2012 R2 WinPe

 

For everyone's information on this email group:

 

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/4c72ae27-198f-4751-b0d6-340
a11b52bd4/insanely-slow-os-download-in-2012-r2-winpe?forum=configmanagerosd

 

I am also experiencing this issue. Hopefully a hotfix / work around is
released by Microsoft shortly.

 

When you have 150+ replacements coming up - an extra 15-20 minutes to
download the OS to the disk really blows out your replacement times. I've
also noticed that its slow when downloading driver packages and the MDT 2013
Files package.

 

Regards,

Damon

 

 

 


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