SCCM 2012 - OSD Application Deployment Fail

There are a few reasons why an application deployment would fail in a SCCM 2012 Task Sequence but the one I'm going to report here is very tricky and not easy to realize.

Suppose you have a Windows 7 deploy TS but only the applications fail to get installed although sometimes all the applications get installed. If you delete the the object DDR or the AD object sometimes this issue doesn't happen. All the behaviour is very inconsistent.

The following are the symptoms you can experience:

• LocationServices.log
  
  Failed to refresh Site Signing Certiticate over MP with error 0x8004005
  Failed to send request /SMSP_MP/.sms_aut?SITESIGNCERT at host
  Failed to refresh Site Signing Certificate over HTTP
  Failed to retrieve DNS service record using _mssms_mp
  Failed to send management point list Location Request Message
  Failed to retrieve Default Management Points from lookup MP(s)
• smsts.log
  
  Policy Evaluation failed, hr=0x87d00267
  Install application action failed.

A possible solution is:

Do not have an empty Install Software Updates step in your TS. If you have it, have updates deployed to the collection where the TS is deployed or delete the Install Software Updates step from your TS. Also if possible do not have any restarts between the Setup Windows and ConfigMgr and the Install Applications.

A solution that always work is:

Create a delay of 10 minutes before installing the applications.
In the task sequence create a new Run Command Line with the following:

cmd /c "ping -n 600 localhost" > NULL