Forcing Installation of the MDT ConfigMgr Integration WMI Classes

Today I encountered an unexpected issue installing the ConfigMgr Integration for MDT. The scenario was an environment with several SMS providers and 2 site servers in a high availability configuration (active / passive). The MDT ConfigMgr Integrations ran successfully on each of the SMS Provider servers, but on the passive site server the BDD_* WMI classes were not created under ROOT\sms\site_XYZ, even though the ConfigMgr Integration wizard completed successfully and reported no error. I ran the wizard with the option to install the task sequence actions to the local server in each case.

Without the WMI classes in place, you get the error “Failed to load class properties and qualifiers for class BDD_*** in task sequence.” when viewing or editing a task sequence containing MDT steps:

The solution was simply to manually compile the MOF file that comes with MDT, which is called Microsoft.BDD.CM12Actions.mof. After the Integration wizard has run, the MOF file be found in Program Files\Microsoft Configuration Manager\AdminConsole\bin. It can also be found in the MDT installation directory Program Files\Microsoft Deployment Toolkit\SCCM.

You need to edit the first line of the MOF file so that it is pointing to the local server, and contains the correct WMI location to install the classes to, eg:

#pragma namespace("\\SCCM001.CONTOSO.COM\root\sms\site_XYZ")

Then compile the MOF file from an admin CMD:

mofcomp <path>\Microsoft.BDD.CM12Actions.mof
BDD_* classes in WMI

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