Setup Deployment Forum

to create default booting to winxp

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 06:40:16 Z

i have win xp & win2008 in my machine but win2k8 server is not proper i mean full install.

i want to make deafult boot to my winxp machine , but thr is no entry of win2008 server in boot.ini file.

can u pls guide me

Hemant

iis problem in windows server 2003

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 05:16:15 Z

Hi,

i am running windows server 2003 on my machine. i have installed iis 6 on that server. problem is -- when i right click on web sites folder -> properties. then iis window closed.
i have deployed asp.net application also on the same application server. it is running fine. so i think it is not related to iis server. i also tried to access other computer iis on my machine. it is doing same (closed window if i click on properties on any website in iis). i have reinstall also iis but problem is same.

Thanks,
Gaurav

Simple quetsion on SYSPREP troubles

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 09:04:32 Z

Dear all,

I have prepared a reference PC with necessary drivers.
Those drivers are :

- graphic cards
- Intel chipset
- OEM raid controllers

Then I have define different user profiles and password for my users that I want to have on such reference PC

Then I sysprep my system and restart it to see how change are kept.

What I have noticed is that my graphic cards and Intel chipset drivers have not been kept, and the problem with those is that tehre are not just .inf file but a compete SETUP.exe that need to be run. I have run and install those setup before sysprep but they have not been kept.

Q1 : how can I ask sysprep to keep my drivers which are installed through a setup.exe instead of simple .inf ?

Q2 : after system reboot and system gets restore, my suer account are tehre but I am prompt to change my admin password, how to avoid this ?

Thnaks fro those precision
regards
serge

Your experience is build from the one of others

WAIK 2.0 - where's "Microsoft-Windows-PnpCustomizationsNonWinPE"???

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 11:54:07 Z

Hello

I have a Server 2008 R2 x64 Windows Deployment Server running and I'd like to deploy XP and 7 through it.

I would like to integrate mass storage and NIC drivers to the winpe.wim image.
There are two ways of doing this:
1. Using DSIM to integrate the drivers to an offline WinPE image
2. Using Windows System Image Manager to create a distribution share with drivers, point an answer file to the driver path, and have WinPE query that path for drivers when WinPE boots up.

I would like to use method 2, as it is more modular and easier to maintain - if a driver is causing problems, or if you need to add a driver, simply add or remove .inf files from the distribution share. No need to modify the boot.wim image.

According to the Windows System Image Manager help, and according to this page (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd744510%28WS.10%29.aspx), to add a driver path to an answer file, one must add to the answer file a component called Microsoft-Windows-PnpCustomizationsNonWinPE. This is where my problem is: I can't find such a component in the WinPE.wim image! It simply isn't there!

My WinPE.wim file was created using copype.cmd x86 c:\WinPE_x86, so it's a clean file. I tried adding all the available packages, but that hasn't added any new components.
I've googled and couldn't find anyone experiencing this problem at all.

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks very much.

Upgrade Windows server 2008 to 2008 R2

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:19:58 Z

I have a problem of upgrading Windows Server 2008 Standard without Hyper-V x64 version to Windows server 2008 R2 Standard or Enterrise x64 version. The error where the setup stops is: "Windows cannot be upgraded because the hard disk partition is formatted with an unsupported version of the NTFS file system. You must restart the computer using the Windows installation disc, perform a custom install, reformat the hard disk partition, and then reinstall your existing files, settings and programs. "

There is no way for me to delete everything, as the resolution in the error message says, and set it up again from scratch. Is there any known solution for the upgrade ?

The server is running on HP DL380 G5 hardware and the partition is in hardware RAID1 Array. The drivers for the HP hardware are the last one available on HP support page. Current system is fully patched with Microsoft updates.

i hope someone has some resolution for this problem.

Thanks,
Ales

SBS 2008 Remote Web - Connect to a computer, but none are available

Fri, 02 Jan 2009 14:43:27 Z

After deploying SBS 2008, we have been unable to get Remote Web to allow RDP connections to the desktops for end users.
The admin account that was created has access to control all machines, but the end user accounts do not. We have granted
them membership into the Windows SBS Remote Web Workplace Users group, as well as the Link users.
The error that is seen on the RWW session states under "Connect to a Computer" is "No computers are available".
Any help in this would be much appreciated since this functionality has been lost since changing to 2008 from 2003.

Capturing XP/Server 2003 using MDT 2010

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 05:10:21 Z

Hi,

How do I capture & upload image of reference computer having Windows XP / Server 2003 installed with some standerd applications using MDT 2010 ....?

Thanks.

Server 2003 Install on Dell Rack Workstation R5400

Thu, 30 Oct 2008 17:43:29 Z

So I've been beating my head against the wall for the last few weeks in my vain attempts to get Server 2003 installed on Dell's Rackmount R5400 Workstation. I can install Windows XP SP2, Vista, Server 2008 (Trial Version) all without a glitch but Server 2003 will NOT install. Part of the issue I found is that Server 2003 requires the drivers for the SATA hard drive array but the setup portion of Server 2003 will only recognize the drivers from a floppy drive. No floppy drive is available on this particular platform unless you purchase a generic USB floppy which still doesn't guarantee that Server 2003 setup will see that floppy drive. Anybody know of a way to get SATA Drivers installed from a CD or Jumpdrive from the Server 2003 setup?

And yes, I've called Dell's techsupport but they were "baffled" by what I was trying to accomplish with this.

Craig

Windows Server 2008 Licensing (Confused)

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:30:03 Z

We have a single physical server with Windows Server 2008 Standard installed. I understand that this edition of WS08 allows us to run a single virtual instance using a supplied virtual key. Does this mean I can install VMWare on another separate physical machine and run a legit version of WS08 virtually or can it only run on the same physical server that the physically licensed version is installed on? I'm assuming the latter.

What I'm trying to achieve is to have another server which can be used as a backup should the main one fail in action ideally mounting a vhd image. Our office would really need to get systems back up and running asap. The current server is primarily being used as afile share for around 30 concurrent users.

Trouble on recovering my SYSPREP image

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 13:29:25 Z

Dear all,

Here is the way I am preparing a reference PC in order to be deplyoyed on others which are 100% the same :

First of all I have installed all my programms and tool needed
Then I have created all my different user profile and customize them by configuring the desktop differently based on different user profiles, such as background, short cut etc...

My system is based on 2 HD of 500 GB manage in RAID 1 and partition with C and D primary partition named OS and DATASTORE

Then when i complete those settings, I have run the sysprep tool with follyoong command :

"sysprep /genaralize /oobe /shutdown /unattend:sysprep.xml"

my default sysprep.xml file contains only some OEM setting like company name etc...and the way drives need to be formatted

Then after this I boot in my WinPE disk and then capture my SYSPREP image as follow :

imagex /capture /compress maximum /check c: f:\myimage.wim
imagex /append /compress maximum /check d: f:\myimage.wim

At this phase my image file contains both partition...
Then I format my hard disk and restaore my image with the following command :

imagex /apply f:\myimage.wim 1 c
imagex /apply f:\myimage.wim 1 d

So now my image is restore on both of my hard disk

NOw here is the point that I did not catch :

1 - When retore completed and my PC reboots, then I have a completable boot partition with operating system up and running, but then I have a dialog which appears asking me how sysprep need to be applied.

At that time if my system is capable to reboot the OS after the imagex /apply, running the SYSPREP command on my system is useless ?

2 - At the time I then get the SYSPREP window asking me what to do, I seelect OOBE and reboot, at that time my sysprep setting gets apply according to my sysprep.xml file, but the problem I have here is that all my customized profiles are not kept, I mean all shortcuts, bacground etc....

So as a sumarize, I have the feeling that I am not using it in the right way...When using the imagex /capture it capture the image of my current drives...

What should I do in order that when my system reboot it is applying my system setting right away ?
Or does the imagex capture is really capturing the way my PC has been SYSPREP ?

Thnaks for your clarification
I am lost
regards
serge

Your experience is build from the one of others

Imagex capture a full volume

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:22:57 Z

Dear all,

I have a system that I have SYSPREP which is build on 2 HD of 500 GB mounted as RAID1

When using the DISKPART I get folloying input :

DISKPART LIST VOLUME
Volume      Letr     Label         fs          type           size
==========================================
Volume 0    E        CD ROM    CDFS     DVD-ROM
Volume 2    C                      NTFS     Partition        224GB
Volume 3    D                      NTFS     partition        222 GB

So far to capture my image I have used folloying command :

Imagex /capture C: E:\capture.wim “Drive C”

Imagex /append D: E:\capture.wim “Drive D” /verify

Is tehre a way to capture a whole volume at once instead of each partition separatly ?

thnaks for your reply
regards
serge

Your experience is build from the one of others

WDS: Cannot upload image to WDS server

Tue, 14 Nov 2006 09:30:27 Z

I am trying to capture an image off an coputer through WDS.

I followed the instructions in another post here:

1. Install the WDS Server role
2. Launch the WDS MMC (from the Administrative Tools Menu)
3. Right-click the server and choose 'Configure Server'. Step through the wizard.
4. Choose to add images to the server (the check box on the finish page of the 'Configure Server' wizard). Point to the Longhorn Server DVD (or the contents of the DVD on a network share / folder).

And if you want to deploy XP images in .WIM format
5. Right-click the Windows PE image in the 'boot' folder and choose 'Create Capture Image'. The output of this command is a customized version of Windows PE that will launch the WDS Image Capture utility instead of setup.exe.
6. Add the .WIM file created in step#5 back to the server by right-clicking on the 'Boot' node and choosing 'Add Boot Image'.
7. Install XP onto a reference machine (client computer)
8. Install some apps / do some customizations
9. Run sysprep (available in deploy.cab from your XP SP2 media)
10. PXE boot the reference machine against the WDS server.
11. Select the WDS Image Capture Windows PE image from the boot menu.
12. Complete the wizard to capture the XP SP2 image and upload it to the WDS Server.

In addition I added the nic driver to the capture image usin imagex and peimg.

I boot on network, select the correct image. Starts the wizard and select partition to image.

But when I type server name, and selects Connect, I cannot connect to the server.
Get en timeout.
Tryed with servername, FQDN, and IP. Nothing works.

Regards

Aage Borgund

How to prestage a computer in Server 2008 R2?

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 01:30:47 Z

I am trying to pre-stage a computer in the active directory on a 2008 R2 server for use by WDS. WDS has an option of filtering drivers based on GUID/UUID. That means one must enter the GUID when creating the computer so that when a client tries to connect with WDS to install an image, it is presented with the correct list of drivers.

The instructions here...

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc754469.aspx

...say (I renumberd the steps for clarity)

On the server running Active Directory Users and Computers, open the Active Directory Users and Computers MMC snap-in In the console tree, right-click the organizational unit that will contain the new client computer.
Click New, and then click Computer.
Type the client computer name
Click Next, and then click This is a managed computer.
In the text box, type the client computer's media access control (MAC) address preceded with twenty zeros or the globally unique identifier (GUID) in the format: {XXXXXXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXX-XXXXXXXXXXXX}.

Everything breaks down at step 4 because there is no Next button, and I see no place to enter the GUID anywhere.

Interestingly, after creating the computer, you can open the properties window and in the Attribute Editor panel, you will see an objectGUID already generated for the computer which AD has never communicated with before. Obviously, this will not match the real GUID that is presetned by the client comptuer upon connection with WDS, and thus pre-staging a computer does not work correctly.

It appears that the current documentation on Technet is old (from 2007) and does not correctly apply to 2008 R2.

Do you know of a workaround? I realize this will probably not be an issue if I am using MDT but I am creating a training video on WDS for technet for deploying Windows 7 at the moment. I will move to MDT one I have covered WDS fully.

Thank You,
Nicholas Hamawi

Vista Deployment through SMS 2003

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:40:00 Z

Can someone give me a reference on how to deploy Vista Image through SMS 2003?

USB Drivers...

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:36:18 Z

I have around 175 public use machines out in the field, a hodge-podge of various IBM and Dell systems running XP with service pack 3 and the latest updates. I am trying to roll out an updated Disk Image with MS Steady State 2.5 and some other updates and enhancements to these machines. They are in various remote locations, not attached to our corporate network (and we don't want them to be) but available for remote maintenance over the internet. Since they are on disparate platforms we need to run sysprep on the images (prior to Steady State install) so they are at least somewhat platform independent. I am then having them reboot to UBCD for Windows (on a USB flash drive with VNC/Ghost etc.) and rebuilding remotely from the syspreped image on the drive.

The problem I am running into is that sysprep is stripping out the USB drivers, so clients cannot read their USB mass storage devices after the build. I thought I had this solved, by having them leave the USB device in the system and updating the drivers via device manager and Windows Update (I was then able to read my USB drive as well as a few other USB mass storage devices). But I am starting to get complaints that not all USB mass storage devices are being read. It is my understanding that this should be built into Windows. USBSTOR.sys is present and the correct values are showing in the registry... "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\USBSTOR start value is 3". What am I missing here? Again, I know that Steady State needs to be installed after the syspreped image is applyed. Has anyone run into this before, or have any ideas as to the cause?

Network Drivers error in RIS

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:41:30 Z

hELLO,

I am running Win2kserver sp4

the client is one Toshiba Satellite psa15e-01k3w

This whole procedure was not required when i tried to install the Os on virtualmachine (worked at first)

Things i have tried

- http://support.microsoft.com/Default.aspx?scid=kb%3ben-us%3b246184&x=11&y=11

- Followed another non MS guide : to dele all *.pnp files in the ...\i386 folder

- applied the http://hotfixv4.microsoft.com/Windows%202000/sp5/Fix62550/2195/free/150770_ENU_i386_zip.exe

- Have tried with windows 2k, xp pro and xp home images

Still i get the same event

"An error occurred during parsing of an INF file in the given section "

SErvice Binlsvc

andon the CIW tell me that the windows image (XP in this case) does not have the necessary Network drivers neede to proceed

Server 2008 for a Small Office and possibly WAN Segment

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 21:45:45 Z

Looking for some fast suggestions on Server 2008 setup. For the first time my company has a remote office. Only 5 users with XP PC's, using a simple server/client application, file sharing, print sharing etc. I want to make sure I setup the server best scinario in case we decide to create a WAN to our home office. Should this server be setup as only a member server, or should I go deeper? Any help is appreciated!!

WDS 2003 - XP Pro clients fails to continue image installation after restart

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:57:44 Z

I have successfully configured WDS on my Windows 2003 (SP2) server, uploaded customised & syspreped XP pro SP3 image to the sever.

I Pxe boot a new client ready to receive the new image & begin the deployment process without issue.
Everything seems fine until the client restarts during the client deployment process at which point it just halts at the black screen with the command prompt in the top left of the screen.

It does not display an error messages to even begin troubleshooting.

Any suggestions gratefully received

Product key

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:11:33 Z

when i enter my product key, it comes back saying the key is incorrect, but it is the key under my laptop, please help, thankyou.

Windows Server 2008 R2 drive letter changes after Sysprep

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:14:48 Z

Hello Colleagues,

I am building with SysPrep an Image for Windows Server 2008 R2 (on a HP DL380 G5 server). The R2 is located on drive D: (on drive C: there is a Windows Server 2003 located) and this drive letter assignment should be preserved.
Drive C: is the first partition on Disk 0 (primary, active), Drive D: is a logical drive in an extended partition.
Unfortunately, the drive letter changes to C: after starting the syspreped R2 OS (and the partition which was former drive C: is then drive D:).

I executed sysprep as follows: sysprep /oobe /generalize /unattend:<Drive>:\unattend.xml /shutdown
I have created the unattend.xml with the SIM tool (from the WAIK) and even choosing the option Microsoft-Windows-PnpSysprep | PersistAllDeviceInstalls isn't successful.
Assingment of a drive letter via unattend.xml isn't possible, because these steps are only available for WindowsPE phase, and not for generalize or specialize phases, which are running after using the /generalize switch of sysprep.

We have build syspreped images of Windows Server 2008 and had no problems at all with the drive letter assignment.

Any idea how to keep the drive letter for a syspreped R2 would be appreciated.

Kind Regards,
Frank

"A disk read error occurred. Press CTRL+ALT+DEL to restart" after WDS image deployment

Tue, 28 Jul 2009 20:18:44 Z

Hello,
I have read through the other forums on this error and am yet to find a response in which is related to my issue. Most of the posts I had read in which this error occured were sudden happening on their machines. My issue is slightly different: I have a classroom full of 18 HP Compaq dc5700 Small Form Factor pcs. My objective is to reimage the machines in which would be done via WDS server. To get to the point of my problem (I can get into further detail if needed to on response), I took one of the machines from the classroom and re-formatted it via Windows XP SP2 CD and made my image on this machine(including adobe's, antivirus, etc...). Once the image was made I captured it to my WDS server successfully and got everything set up to deploy. I had begun to deploy the image on the other machines and all went smoothly. I had noticed how these machines had the HP Recovery Partition along with the main Partition and unallocated space while selecting the area of the hardrive for WDS to deploy to (within the deployment steps). An example of this step can be found here. I then deleted each of the partition such as what I had done on past bench pcs using WDS so that I was left with my 74.5 GB of unallocated space. I installed the image in this unallocated space and when the computer had rebooted after the deployment finished I first got the following error: "Warning: Your system recovery partition was removed. Press F10 to start the system recovery anyway or another Key to delete the recovery partition". So, I tried pressing another Key and I then got this: "OS Missing". Then it continues on to self-PXE boot. No matter what I have tried to press or do I keep ending up back at the "A disk read error occurred. Press CTRL+ALT+DEL to restart". I had played around during the WDS deployment stage of partition managing mentioned earlier and each produce the same results. I also got this error at some times: "A system partition overlaps your recovery partition. Press F10 to start the system recovery anyways or another Key to delete the recovery partition". in which results me back to my main "disk read" error.

Things I have tried since:
DOD Wipe CD (wipes all partitions/cleans hardrive) then WDS deployment = same result error

Using software such as GP Partition Software to create a smaller partition for imaging then WDS deployed = same result error

Removing and replacing the CMOS battery along with resetting the CMOS via the CMOS button located on the motherboard then WDS deployment = same result error

Any help, suggestions, hints, etc... are much appreciated. I am on a deadline to have this classroom ready before school starts for the beginning of this year so I am willing to try any propositions anyone may have. Thank you for taking the time to read through my post and hopefully you have some information in which could be benefitting.

Thanks again,
JCTech35

boot.wim and PXE boot

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 06:29:25 Z

Hi

Plz let me know if i have boot.wim image on WDS then when i try to run the image that is syspreped on a client will i need PXE CD or only the boot.wim is enough ?

Regards

Trouble in RIS server

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:20:01 Z

Have the win2kserver SP4 on . on it i have:

DHCP server - client is receiving address
DNS - Also working
RIS is installed and configured

When i start the client i get the following "The system cannot find the path specified"

error 00000003
E:\Remoteinstall\OSChooser\English\LOGIN.OSC

Have no event viewr related messages on the server
Have checked this guide
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb742501.aspx

Would like any help,

thanks

Network Location in unattended file

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:23:17 Z

Hello All

I am having following issue:

I am trying to deploy W2K8 R2 using unattended file and imagex. One of the things that i have to set is network location - i am setting it to work but then when windows boots it's always sensing network as public.
I found workaround for that: http://www.msfn.org/board/lofiversion/index.php/t99339.html

But this seems to be working only on Virtual machine - when i applied image to physical one setting did not worked.

Do you maybe know why this setting does not work?

Panoramix

WDS PXE-E32: TFTP open timeout

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 20:33:17 Z

server 2008 sp2, running dhcp/wds, also a domain controller.

server was working yesterday... today ran windows update, rebooted, and later in the day received report that it was not working: WDS PXE-E32: TFTP open timeout

whats the deal?

Software License Manager (slmgr.vbs) -rearm option failure

Tue, 03 Jun 2008 12:43:01 Z

I am attempting to extend my trial period, but when I run the slmgr.vbs -rearm command, I get the following,

     Unrecognized option: -rearm

I am running as administrator, so I don't know why the program is failing.

When I run slmgr.vbs -dli I get the following,

     Name: Windows Server(R), ServeStandard Edition
     Despcription: Windows Operating System - Windows Server(R), RETAIL channel
     Partial Product Key: WVCWG
     License Status: Intial grace period
     Time Remaining: 60 Minute(S), 0 Day(S)

Any help would be appreciated.

Sysprep - Driver not detected - Windows XP SP3

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:40:31 Z

Hi,

I have one query regarding Driver not detecting after running Sysprep in Windows XP.

We have HPxw8400 workstation where we have a slot for Matrox Imaging card.
And we have 2 kinds of Imaging cards available for the customers.
1. Matrox Odessey XA
2. Matrox Odessey XPro

We have a common driver for both Card. So when we switch back the cards we don't find New Hardware Found dialog before we run sysprep.

But After we run Syspre, the system pops up New Hardware Found dialog when we switch the card.
It is able to detect the drivers for the card with which Sysprep is run. The other card it doesn't detect.

Can anyone help us to resolve the issue?

Thanks,
Srinivas

vasu

New install of server 2008 wants drivers. Losing time...

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:20:41 Z

Bought a new big HP 64bit with Win7. Trying to install new server 2008 software for a client. It wants drivers.

Do I have to go find all the drivers for the PC and put them on another drive? Do I need the driver of the external drive that the drivers are on?

Is Microsoft server 2008 not smart enough to be able to use a generic driver for the Acer Monitor, or internal hard drive, or DVD unit?

Now, I'm not going to make any money on the job. I just have to spend my time researching solutions for Microsoft, by asking for help from their own forum. I'm a sucker. Going to do all I can to promote Mac and Ubuntu.

I see a LOT of articles for Updating. I need to get it up and running for the first time. My reputation is really going downhill.

I would appreciate a step-by-step guide. If I have to send you money via PayPal, then so be it.

Thank you,
George Ross
ispsales@verizon.net

WDS Discover image on USB, CD supress gui prompts.

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 01:12:34 Z

Hello,

I am having some trouble getting WDS Discover image configured. I am creating a Discover Image from the windows 7 rtm X86 boot.wim. I add the drivers also through WDS. When I boot off my usb drive it connectes to the server and then I am asked a few questions, What is the language, Logon creds, image selection, and disk config options. Here is where I am getting caught up. I want to supress the keyboard and disk configuration options. I want the clietns to login and select the image and have it automaticly format the drive and drop the image down. Please note I am using a custom image that has already been syspreped. I looked @ the wds .chm file and I noticed that there is a seperate Unattend file I can use and put inside the \remote install\wdsclientunattend dir. I used the sample file that was in the sample directory for wds and I didnt catalog a file at first and was getting prompted so i used the install.wim as a catalog and still prmots for everything. Can someone help me with this?

-Danny

KMS for Windows 7

Thu, 08 Oct 2009 03:29:38 Z

I am new to this KMS process
We have 5 windows 7 client machines
I have setup a windows 2003 server as the KMS host running 1.2 of the package KB968915.
I had to add a dns record for _VLMCS and even though the doc said i had to bounce slsvc it was actually sppsvc

Now when my windows 7 clients try and activate they get the nasty message

0xC004F038

The software Licensing Service reported that the computer could not be activated. The count reported by your Key Management Service (KMS) is insufficient. Please contact your system administrator.

KMS client

Count on KMS host is not high enough. KMS count must be ≥5 for Windows Server 2008 or ≥25 for Windows Vista.

More physical computers are needed in the KMS pool (minimum of 5 for Windows Server 2008 or 25 for Windows Vista) for KMS clients to activate. Run Slmgr.vbs /dli to get current count on the KMS host.

Now i'm assuming the windows 7 kms pool is going to be 25 like Vista
We are never going to have that many windows 7 clients. So what do i do?

For the momment i have used the KMS key directly on the clients to activate and i will back it out using slmgr.vbs /ipk <setupkey> if it becomes an issue.

So my three questions are

1. Windows 7 setupkeys aren't published in the Volume activation deployment guide, where can i find them?
2. Is what i have done correct? I can't see any other solution though i am new to KMS
3. We only have a KMS key for windows 7 we don't have a MAK key and i'm wondering if that is correct after reading this guys blog http://blogs.technet.com/kevinremde/archive/2006/12/18/some-good-questions-on-activation-2-0.aspx which says
"The alternative to KMS activation is MAK (Multiple Activation Key) activation, which activates to Microsoft rather than to a local KMS service. If you have the KMS key, you also have the MAK key. (You get one of each from the same Volume License key source.)"

Error Performing an Unattended Joing of a Windows 2008 R2 Server to a Windows 2000 Active Directory Domain

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:15:29 Z

Hi,

I wondered if anyone could shed any light. We're using WDS on a W2k8 platform to perform an unattended installation of Windows 2008 R2 onto a client.

<ImageUnattend.xml>

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<unattend xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:unattend">
    <settings pass="specialize">
        <component name="Microsoft-Windows-UnattendedJoin" processorArchitecture="amd64" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="neutral" versionScope="nonSxS" xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
            <Identification>
                <UnsecureJoin>true</UnsecureJoin>
  <JoinDomain>domain.com</JoinDomain>
            </Identification>
        </component>
        <component name="Microsoft-Windows-Shell-Setup" processorArchitecture="amd64" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="neutral" versionScope="nonSxS" xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
            <ComputerName>servername</ComputerName>
        </component>
    </settings>
</unattend>

<NetSetup.log> reports the following error:

NetpValidateMachineAccount: Failed to validate machine account for servername against domaincontroller.comain.com: 0xc000006d

Any help anyone is able to offer would be appreciated.

Thanks in anticipation,

LID.

IE security settings are reset after Sysprep on 2003 R2 SP2

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:00:00 Z

Hi,

I am setting security level for "Local internet", "Trusted sites" in Security tab of Internet Options in IE 6.0.
Setting the Home Page as Use Blank.
After this I run Sysprep -> Reseal before taking dump of the system.

When I dump the image in other system, the sysprep completes the process.

Problems observed are:
1) The Internet settings are reset to default Level.
2) The Home page is reset to res://shdoclc.dll/hardAdmin.htm

Can I suppress Sysprep resetting IE settings?

Thanks,
Srinivas
GE Healthcare

vasu

Applying an image using sysprep and unattended file

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:54:52 Z

Der all,

In orer to deploy our server 2008 image I am using Sysprep and a boot WinPE CD to capture the image prepared suing sysprep.
Based on that I have 2 simple question :

During the WinPE boot and until you are working in BootPE environnement, there is a gray default background image show. What is the way to customize or change that background image ?

Same thing during the apply of the sysprep image I would like to get my own baground image or customize the default one

HOw to do this ?

thnaks for help
serge

Your experience is build from the one of others

Microsoft office 2007 product key

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 03:44:05 Z

Hi, less then a year ago i ordered microsoft office 2007 online and it shipped to me overnight. I installed it on my computer and had the product key then. I just recently bought a new laptop and am trying to install it on that, its been to long and i cant figure out my product key. Does anyone know where it is located on the packaging for a shipment? in the cd case their is a sticker but none of the codes on it work

Slipstreaming SP2 into Windows Server 2003 R2 SP1

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:37:52 Z

Hello,

I'm having trouble slipstreaming SP2 into Windows Server 2003 R2 SP1. I attempted to do this by copying the contents of the first Windows Server 2003 CD into a directory on my hard drive. I then ran the SP2 update using the following command:
WindowsServer2003-KB914961-SP2-x86-ENU.exe /integrate:C:\W2k3\

where W2K3 is the directory that contained the contents of the Windows Server 2003 CD with SP1. It looked like it completed successfully so I burned a CD using the contents of the updated directory and install a new computer using the new CD. After installing from the first disk, the install prompts me for the R2 disk, so I inserted the second disk and the install completed successfully. Now here's the problem. Next, I went to the Windows Update and scanned for needed patches and it said that I needed SP2! This tells me that I didn't do something right. Why is Windows Update telling me I need to download and install SP2? Is there something wrong with the procedure that I used to create the new CD?

Thanks ahead of time for your help.

Gary

Problem By Deploying IBM Blade Server H22 via ADS

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:30:39 Z

Hello,

we have new Blade H22 Server and we want to deploy this via Automated Deployment Service.

Blade H22 Server are using an NIC (Broadcom 5709S onboard NIC with dual Gigabit Ethernet ports with TOE ) so i have to replace the Driver in ADS repository. I Used the Driver from newest IBM Server Guide.

And now my problem.

The Server is booting into Deployment Agent sucessfull but no loading the Image.

I used already a lot drivers but no one work. Wich device driver i have to use?

Is Broadcom 5709S onboard NIC supported by MS ADS?

Thanks!!

Windows Update problem

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:18:37 Z

Hi Guys,

I would like to know more on Updates and Service packs on all the Windows OS from Server to Client and also would like to know how the systems get updates from Microsoft and what are the components involved in getting the updates from Microsoft.I am very much interested in all these concepts.

Kindly help me.

How do you get sysprep to reset RDS Licensing grace period?

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 04:51:03 Z

Hi,

First of all sorry if this is in the wrong forum - since it involves sysprep I thought it was most appropriate here. So basically, I cant work out how to get sysprep to reset the RDS grace period on Windows Server 2008 R2. I am using: sysprep /generalize /oobe /reboot /unattend:Unattend.xml to sysprep the system and it works like a charm.

The only problem I have now is that it wont reset the Remote Desktop Service's grace period it will continue to count down from 120days since it was originally installed on the system. I have tried activating the license server before running sysprep, and a few other hacky sort of things (ie: Delete %windir%\System32\LServer) without success. The grace period continues to countdown from 120 days from original install. Any help on this matter would be great =)

Regards.

DHCP and WDS

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 12:05:22 Z

Hi
I have opened a thread earlier but not get any assistence, here is issues:

I have server machine HP Pro , on this i have installed 2008 server two NIC but disabeled 1 and the one i am using give address: 10,0,0,1
Then installed AD DS , DHCP and DNS (with AD DS). Then installed WDS, configured all according to the guides form microsoft, but when i run IPCONFIG/ALL it gives me DCHP is not Enabeled, if i change my NIC IP to automatic then i can see DHCP enabeled.

Client: i got one compaq laptop as master PC, i enabeled PXE boot, but when i do this , it give me erro rnot found DHCP or DHCP Proxy, and then boot form Hard Disk
Can some one advise me

capture Image with Imagex and USB Storage

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:05:41 Z

HI

I am capturing a SysPreped image with Imagex, the PC is booted via WinPE CD/DVD. I have DHCP issues so i can not map a network path, so i just inserted a USB (NTFS formatted). And when i give command to capture image and and specify the destination path to USB, i got error that "Access is denied" or "not have permission" etc.

I also tried to copy the image on the same drive i mean i am capturing image of C drive and i tried to check if i can save this image on C, but again failed to do so.
http://mcitpsuccess.blogspot.com/2008/04/run-sysprep-and-capture-image.html confirms that i can save it on C as well.

So anyone can help me with this?