SMS Trace is a great tool for troubleshooting deployment issues from within WinPE, no doubt about that. It makes errors and warnings clearly visible in thousands of lines of markup logs.
Trace64 has been removed from the MDT Healthcare package, because “it is a System Center tool” and they don’t have permission to release it (See Dan’s blog).
Adding Trace32 and Trace64 to your winpe.wim is easy:
imagex /mountrw c:\winpe_x86.wim 1 c:\mount copy /y c:\sms_trace\trace32.exe c:\mount\windows\ imagex /unmount /commit c:\mount imagex /mountrw c:\winpe_x64.wim 1 c:\mount copy /y c:\sms_trace\trace64.exe c:\mount\windows\ imagex /unmount /commit c:\mount
You should also create a package that copies these files to the %SystemRoot%. If your task sequence fails outside of WinPE you won’t have access to SMS Trace.
Remember to update your Distribution Points before creating the ISOs.
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