How to kill a running task sequence on a single machine

Question

_{Tuesday, June 30, 2015 7:09 PM}

So I've got an experimental task sequence installing some packages (its not an image deployment), and for some reason it got stuck at 'installing' on my test machine.

When I went to kill the tsmanager process there is no such process running. Is there any other way to kill it or where would I find the flag that ensures the TS survives a reboot (so that I can kill that flag maybe?)?

All replies (3)

_{Wednesday, July 1, 2015 6:05 AM ✅Answered}

See https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/e382da34-079c-4619-8fdb-e5e44c436857/software-center-show-application-stuck-at-installing

Torsten Meringer | http://www.mssccmfaq.de

_{Wednesday, July 1, 2015 12:07 AM}

To kill task sequence progress, look for TSprogressUI.exe and end this process.

did you verify the logs (smsts.log,execmgr.log) for the status of execution why is it stuck ? did that package worked when you install manually or via package deployment ?package is that waiting for some input from end user.

Eswar Koneti | Configmgr Blog: www.eskonr.com | Linkedin: Eswar Koneti | Twitter: eskonr

_{Thursday, July 2, 2015 3:32 PM}

@Eswar - there is no TSProgressUI.exe running. The logs were just telling me it was downloading (over and over and over). But the status in Software Center was "Installing". I think I had the TS opened and modified unsaved before kicking off the install - maybe that caused it.

@Torsten - thanks. I followed that link and in the end I just blew away WMI and after the client repaired itself it worked.

1. net stop winmgmt

2. winmgmt /resetrepository

3. Reboot

4. CCMRepair.exe