Mastering the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit

Common errors and frequent pitfalls

Beside these two mentioned good troubleshooting documents (I'm sure there are more documents that are worth mentioning, but space is limited, and I want to share my findings with you), there are some more common errors to add.

Deployment stop during applying patches offline

During deployment task sequence at the Apply patches / Install Updates offline step, installation is failing and you get error message and deployment stops.

Possible solution: Some patches/hotfixes cannot be applied offline due to pending file actions. Identify the blocking patch by reviewing dism.log and CBS.log. Select/review first patch with error, as other error messages could be after effects. After applying such a pending action patch, ...