New Hotfix: Program does not run in a task sequence on a System Center Configuration Manager 2007 SP2 client if the program name contains extended ASCII characters
From the archive (2011). Written for the tools of the time, so some details may be out of date.
Consider the following scenario:
- You create a deployment package on a Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Service Pack 2 (SP2) site server.
- You create a program in the package. The name of the program contains extended ASCII characters.
- You create a task sequence, and you add an Install Software step to the task sequence.
- You select the Install multiple applications option, and you configure the Base variable name setting to include the program that contains extended ASCII characters in the Install Software step.
- You deploy the task sequence to a client computer.
This issue occurs because an incorrect data type is used to handle the program name that contains extended ASCII characters.
For more details and a downloadable hotfix for this issue see the following: