Apex apparently has other free and paid products that I haven’t even looked at yet. Also, this is a completely unpaid, unsolicited review of the Apex SQL Search tool – we just REALLY love it and REALLY think you should try it out.

I highly recommend adding it to any DB where you use SSMS. So that’s it! As you can see, the Apex SQL Search tool is super powerful and useful. SELECT * FROM ClientSettings WHERE ID = 16777217 We worked with the user and obtained the smsts.log while in WinPE and this allowed us to see that the TS was failing to download a specific policy which caused the TS to fail and reboot: Failed to download policy ' It had reached the point of at least verifying the TS content’s availability before it suddenly rebooted, returning to the Win7 logon screen. We spoke w/ the user and learned that the device had actually PXE booted successfully. The only real lead this would be providing was that we had a challenge, as “ Program rejected (wrong platform) ” had nothing to do with what was causing the TS to fail. It was not located in the “ In Progress ” or “ Error ” tabs and ultimately found it in the “ Requirements Not Met ” tab. Program rejected (wrong platform) look at the environment tab for your package. We first recognized a challenge existed while reviewing the device progress in our PXE TS Deployment Status. Program Rejected Invalid Policy Sccm Deploying Configuration Manager 2012 R2 Clients Using Group Policy In this post we will see the steps for Deploying Configuration Manager. The challenges all began at a remote location, so we did not have the luxury of having physical access to the device. What this hopefully provides are insights and options on how you can dig down and discover what the root cause is in your unique case. * Keep in mind that this is NOT the only cause for the ' Failed to download policy (Code 0x80004005)' error in a TS and certainly NOT for 'Requirements Not Met' ~ 'Program Rejected (wrong platform)' in your ConfigMgr Deployment Status. As if all that was not enough, there is a quick lesson on using a SQL Search tool that I was completely unfamiliar with until good friend, Adam Gross (follow this cat on the Twit:, hipped me to what all the cool kids were doing! Read On My Friends! On the Home tab, in the Create group, select Import Objects. In the Monitoring workspace, select Queries. In the Configuration Manager console, select Monitoring. For information about how to export queries, see How to manage queries. Besides being interesting as Hell, we also found a “clean” resolution that was not available through countless Goog searches. Use this procedure to import a query into Configuration Manager.

Ran into a challenge yesterday that found me chasing apparitions into the SCCM DB and in the process, discovering some interesting insights into the fatal, Failed to download policy (Code 0x80004005) Task Sequence (TS) error.

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