My 3rd bug related to the new Stand Alone Task Sequencer has to do with a Crash in the product. I’ve seen this pretty consistently when hydrating/building out my own SCCM 2012 Server.

At the end of the task sequence I will see the following:

SMSTS.Log shows:

<![LOG[Process completed with exit code 2147942402]LOG]!><time="23:36:24.402+420" date="07-12-2015" component="TSMBootstrap" context="" type="1" thread="3864" file="commandline.cpp:1123">
<![LOG[Exiting with return code 0x80070002]LOG]!><time="23:36:24.417+420" date="07-12-2015" component="TSMBootstrap" context="" type="1" thread="3864" file="tsmbootstrap.cpp:1238">
<![LOG[shSmsTsKeyForScope.Open (HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, sSmsTsKeyForScope.c_str(), KEY_READ), HRESULT=80070002 (e:nts_sccm_releasesmsframeworktscoreenvironmentscope.cpp,311)]LOG]!><time="23:36:24.417+420" date="07-12-2015" component="TSMBootstrap" context="" type="0" thread="3864" file="environmentscope.cpp:311">
<![LOG[Failed to open key SoftwareMicrosoftSMS47006C006F00620061006C005C007B00350031004100300031003600420036002D0046003000440045002D0034003700350032002D0042003900370043002D003500340045003600460033003800360041003900310032007D00SMSTS]LOG]!><time="23:36:24.417+420" date="07-12-2015" component="TSMBootstrap" context="" type="3" thread="3864" file="environmentscope.cpp:311">
<![LOG[GetKeyFromRegistry (m_sScopeRegKey.c_str(), Key), HRESULT=80070002 (e:nts_sccm_releasesmsframeworktscoreenvironmentscope.cpp,764)]LOG]!><time="23:36:24.417+420" date="07-12-2015" component="TSMBootstrap" context="" type="0" thread="3864" file="environmentscope.cpp:764">

It’s a bit troubling, as I mentioned earlier with my other bugs related to the Stand Alone Task Sequencer, the Task Sequencer in MDT should be “rock solid”, and is a mission critical component, the fact that it crashes due to missing or corrupt registry is…