SCCM – 2012 R2 SP1 OSD Issue – Skipping Task Sequence because it’s not active yet

After instralling SP1 for SCCM 2012 R2 in a customers environment we have a strange behaviour when deploying Operating Systems to Clients.

Problem

A deployed Task Sequence is not showing up when clients boots up. After booting the client via PXE, there is no Task Sequence. The Task Sequence is available and is also active for PXE and Media…so it should work

Background

If you have a look into smsts.log you can see the following message:

„Skipping Task Sequence ABC000123 because it’s not active yet“

Description

Back in the deployment of our Task Sequence you can see, that the deployment start date is set to today…if you change the start date to yesterday, the TS shows up when booting and all is working fine.

Actually i can not tell you why this behaviour is in placer…but the workaround is working…