Lately I have been testing a new deployment sequence of Windows 10 from the System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) 2012 R2.
There was a lot of new things to try, and therefor potential for errors.

Under each deployment failure I needed to look in the client logs, to investigate the problem.

When a deployment fails you can press “F8” on the client to get a Command Prompt up. Then you can navigate to the logs files from here, and open it with a “notepad <logfile.log>“.

• Windows PE (Before the hard disk are formatted)
  • x:\windows\temp\smstslog\smsts.log
• Windows PE (After the hard disk are formatted)
  • x:\smstslog\smsts.log
  • c:\_SMSTaskSequence\Logs\Smstslog\smsts.log
• Windows Operating System (Before the SCCM client is installed)
  • c:\_SMSTaskSequence\Logs\Smstslog\smsts.log
• Windows Operating System (After the SCCM client is installed)
  • c:\windows\ccm\logs\Smstslog\smsts.log
• Windows Operating System (When the Task Sequence is complete)
  • c:\windows\ccm\logs\smsts.log