In some cases it comes in handy to restart or shutdown your task sequence (TS) at the end of the TS. A downside of giving a shutdown or restart command at the end of a TS is that SCCM will not log the TS as finished until the last task is peformed succesfully. This is the moment where “SMSTSPostAction” comes in place.

“SMSTSPostAction” is a TS variable which you can set at the end of a TS with a certain value/command. It will perform this action when the end of the TS is reached and the TS has finished succesfully.

At this moment I mostly use this variable for performing the last reboot for the device which is deployed. But you can also choose to shutdown the machine if you prefer that. Underneath a example how I use this at the moment.

Underneath some value’s / commands which can be usefull to perform at the end of a TS using this variable.

• MS DOS

  :: Restart device: cmd /c shutdown /r /t 0 /f :: Shutdown devic: cmd /c shutdown /s /t 0 /f :: Group Policy update with a reboot: gpupdate /force /boot :: Run a specific script: C:\temp\<filename>.<extension>

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  :: Restart device: cmd /c shutdown /r /t 0 /f   :: Shutdown devic: cmd /c shutdown /s /t 0 /f   :: Group Policy update with a reboot: gpupdate /force /boot   :: Run a specific script: C:\temp\<filename>.<extension>