In System Center 2012 Configuration Manager, you delete a step (an action or a group) from an operating system deployment task sequence group by deleting the step from the group's list of task sequence steps.
To remove a step from a group
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Set up a connection to the SMS Provider. For more information, see About the SMS Provider in Configuration Manager.
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Get the SMS_TaskSequenceGroup object that you want to add the step to. For more information, see How to Create an Operating System Deployment Task Sequence Group.
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Remove the action from the SMS_TaskSequenceGroup.Steps array property.
Example
The following example method removes an action from a task sequence group.
For information about calling the sample code, see Calling Configuration Manager Code Snippets.
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Sub RemoveActionFromGroup(taskSequenceGroup, actionName) Dim i If taskSequenceGroup.SystemProperties_("__CLASS")<>"SMS_TaskSequence_Group" Then wscript.echo "Not a group" return End If Dim newArray Dim actionStep newArray = Array(taskSequenceGroup.Steps) ReDim newArray(UBound(taskSequenceGroup.Steps)) i=0 for each actionStep in taskSequenceGroup.Steps If actionStep.Name = actionName and _ actionStep.SystemProperties_("__SUPERCLASS") = "SMS_TaskSequence_Action" Then ReDim preserve newArray(UBound(newArray)-1) ' shrink the Array else wscript.echo actionStep.Name Set newArray(i)=actionStep ' copy it i=i+1 End If Next taskSequenceGroup.Steps=newArray End Sub |
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public void RemoveActionFromGroup( IResultObject taskSequenceGroup, string actionName) { try { if (taskSequenceGroup["__CLASS"].StringValue != "SMS_TaskSequence_Group") { throw new System.InvalidOperationException("Not a group"); } List<IResultObject> groupSteps = taskSequenceGroup.GetArrayItems("Steps"); IResultObject actionFound = null; foreach (IResultObject actionStep in groupSteps) { if (actionStep["Name"].StringValue == actionName && actionStep["__SUPERCLASS"].StringValue == "SMS_TaskSequence_Action") { actionFound = actionStep; break; } } groupSteps.Remove(actionFound); taskSequenceGroup.SetArrayItems("Steps", groupSteps); } catch (SmsException e) { Console.WriteLine("Failed to remove action: " + e.Message); throw; } } |
The example method has the following parameters:
Parameter | Type | Description |
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taskSequenceGroup |
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The task sequence group containing the action to be deleted. |
actionName |
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The name of the action to be deleted. This can be obtained from the SMS_TaskSequenceAction.Name property. |
Compiling the Code
This C# example requires:
Namespaces
System
System.Collections.Generic
System.Text
Microsoft.ConfigurationManagement.ManagementProvider
Microsoft.ConfigurationManagement.ManagementProvider.WqlQueryEngine
Assembly
microsoft.configurationmanagement.managementprovider
adminui.wqlqueryengine
Robust Programming
For more information about error handling, see About Configuration Manager Errors.
Security
For more information about securing Configuration Manager applications, see Securing Configuration Manager Applications.
See Also
Tasks
How to Add a Step to an Operating System Deployment GroupHow to Connect to an SMS Provider in Configuration Manager by Using Managed Code
How to Connect to an SMS Provider in Configuration Manager by Using WMI
How to Move a Step to a Different Operating System Deployment Task Sequence Group
How to Create an Operating System Deployment Task Sequence Group
Concepts
Configuration Manager Operating System DeploymentConfiguration Manager Objects
Configuration Manager Programming Fundamentals
Operating System Deployment Task Sequencing