Recently I have noticed that "Retired" computers, or computers that have been purged based upon the fact that they have not checked into the database for 'x' days, will not recognize their task server while in WinPE.
In our imaging process, we use the %taskserver% token to determine where the machine should pull the image from. If a machine is "retired" given the above criteria, that value is blank. The only way around this issue is to delete the machine from Altiris and restart the imaging process. This removes all history from the DB and we don't necessarily want to do this.
Due to licensing constraints, we cannot remove the automatic purging, nor can we increase the time constraints in which a machine has checked in.
Any insights would be appreciated.