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  • Monday, September 24, 2012 2:14 AM
     
     
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    This is my first question on this forum so forgive me if this does not make sense. About 6 weeks ago, my network guys were noticing gigs of data being pulled down from our MDT server to random computers on the domain. Now the only thing that I have been changing is different items in some Task Sequences (just your normal house keeping stuff).

    The only place (that I know of) to kill these downloads is on the server where MDT is localed, open up 'Manage open files' in 'Share and Storage Management'. Looking in the 'Accessed by' column and kill that particular process where it is downloading to a domain computer.

    Note: I'm not even sure if these downloads are controller by MDT itself or Windows Server 2008.

    Any help with this issue would be appreciated. Thanks.

     

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  • Monday, September 24, 2012 7:14 AM
     
     
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    The data traffic was during deployment off computers or afterwards?

    Did you make any hardcoded paths to your mdt share with application deployments or something like that? I've never heard of mdt generating traffic after deployments.

    Keep us posted, and if helpful please rate! Kind regards

     
  • Monday, September 24, 2012 10:55 AM
     
     
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    This is my first question on this forum so forgive me if this does not make sense. About 6 weeks ago, my network guys were noticing gigs of data being pulled down from our MDT server to random computers on the domain. Now the only thing that I have been changing is different items in some Task Sequences (just your normal house keeping stuff).

    The only place (that I know of) to kill these downloads is on the server where MDT is localed, open up 'Manage open files' in 'Share and Storage Management'. Looking in the 'Accessed by' column and kill that particular process where it is downloading to a domain computer.

    Note: I'm not even sure if these downloads are controller by MDT itself or Windows Server 2008.

    Any help with this issue would be appreciated. Thanks.

    I encountered a similar issue recently whereby a specific application on user machines was trying to do a repair from the original MSI located on the deployment point. This was then causing traffic as the msi data transfered to each machine in order to complete the application repair.

    MCITP Windows 7 Enterprise Administrator

     
  • Tuesday, September 25, 2012 3:11 AM
     
     
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    Thanks Hollanders1984. I know that when the image is running it will create a temporary drive mapping to the deployment share, but this share will get disconnected once the image deployment has completed. To answer your question, no, there is no hardcoded paths (mapped drives) to the MDT share. What is also wierd, is that it seems to be picking random domain computers at random times.
     
  • Tuesday, September 25, 2012 3:16 AM
     
     
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    Thanks DunkG. Would you suggest the I re-install the MSI in question in order to complete the repair for that particular application? I will have to keep a closer eye on it but I think the main culprits are actually update programs, like SP1 for MS Office 2010 x64. These are EXE files, not MSI files.

     
  • Tuesday, September 25, 2012 8:20 AM
     
     
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    Is there a possibility you start monitoring your network traffic from and to your MDT server with wireshark or another tool to see exactly to which computer data will be going?

    Microsoft Network Monitor 3.4 for example

    Keep us posted, and if helpful please rate! Kind regards

     
  • Wednesday, September 26, 2012 12:21 AM
     
     
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    My network guys are doing this at the moment, this is how we know that MDT is doing all this network traffic. I think I have narrowed it down to SP1 for MS Office 2010 x64. Still not sure why this SP1 is being accessed by domain computers. I am wondering if I remove it from a few domain computers and see if that stops the network traffic from those computers that I have removed it from.

     
  • Wednesday, September 26, 2012 6:30 AM
     
     
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    Are you offering the Office 2010 service pack separately from the applications "Office 2010" in MDT?

    You know that everything you place in your .\Updates folder of the Office 2010 source will be executed when deploying Office 2010, so you do not need to provide the SP1 afterwards. Just copy the SP1 msi into the Office2010\Updates folder and it will be applied during deployment automatically. So Office 2010 will be deployed out of the box with the SP1 update and perhaps this solves your problem of Machines pulling data from the MDT share.

    Keep us posted, and if helpful please rate! Kind regards

     
  • Wednesday, September 26, 2012 11:43 PM
     
     
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    Ok, I will try that. I have have been installing the SP for Office as a seperate TS. I will put the SP1 for Office file (EXE) in the 'Updates' folder and see how it goes. I will keep you posted, may be a few days or so before we see any changes.

     
  • Thursday, September 27, 2012 10:43 PM
     
     
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    Don't place the exe file in the updates folder.

    You first need to extract the SP1 installer, this way you get the *.msp files.

    For example, I only needed these files so these were the ones I added (I didn't need all the other different languages in there taking up space):

    accessdesp1-en-us.msp
    clientshared64muisp1-en-us.msp
    clientshared64wwsp1-x-none.msp
    clientsharedmuisp1-en-us.msp
    officesuitemuisp1-en-us.msp
    officesuitewwsp1-x-none.msp
    osamuisp1-en-us.msp
    proofingsp1-en-us.msp
    proofsp1-en-us.msp
    proofsp1-es-es.msp
    proofsp1-fr-fr.msp
    README.TXT
    wwlibcxmsp1-en-us.msp

    If you need a step by step guide; take a look here: http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/172699-office-2010-slipstream-service-pack-1-a.html

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  • Friday, September 28, 2012 7:10 AM
     
     
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    Thanks Stephan, I was not aware of this step. Learned something too!

    Keep us posted, and if helpful please rate! Kind regards

     
  • Tuesday, October 02, 2012 4:10 AM
     
     
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    Yeap, that worked, only putting the MSP files in the updates folder works. I will now remove and delete the individual TS that installs SP1 for Office 2010. I will keep checking, however, to see if this has also fixed my origanal issue of MDT network traffic.

     
  • Tuesday, October 02, 2012 5:33 PM
     
     
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    You can also integrate all other office patches with this approach. (post SP1 patches)

    I obtain them from http://catalog.update.microsoft.com/v7/site/Thanks.aspx?id=140

    Note: You have to use 32bit IE for this page
    I recommend 7-zip for unpacking the archives as you can easily chain it.