Ok so here is my setup.

Server 2008 R2, running WDS and serving various images.

the Windows 8 image is a vanilla boot.wim and install.wim imported from a system builder iso.

If I burn the ISO or extract it onto a USB drive, then the install process picks up the embedded Windows product keys no problem.

If I deploy the same thing via WDS, the setup wizard asks for the keys, ergo, is not picking them up from the UEFI firmware. Is this an inherent limitation of WDS or am I doing something wrong?

Hello,

I want to inject the update in the ISO image can anyone help me on the same.

As per the methods in below link tried but in vain.

 https://support2.microsoft.com/kb/2966870

Appreciate any suggestions.

Hello,

Basically what I'm trying to setup is a fully automated WDS deployment, I've finished up the required image and I can now deploy it through WDS with just one manual action which is changing the password (I can't seem to find the option to disable this)

So what I'm trying to setup is a simple html page that we can use to fill in the IP information, network information, hostname ect.
Once filled in it should create some sort of file that wds picks up.
We have to be able to install multiple desktop at once so changing the unattend file constantly isn't really an option.

Working with an setupcomplete.cmd file doesns't seem to be an option as well, it would've been an option if WDS would pick up just a certain filename (let's say we use the MAC address in the filename)

I hope someone here has any idea's!

Thanks,

Sander

I have a lab environment setup specifically for imaging laptops via WDS.   I have a stand alone Windows 2012 server connected directly to an 8-Port Cisco SG-220 8 Port switch.    Nothing else is connected to this server and it is not being used for anything else.  The server is running DHCP and WDS.    I can boot laptops via PXE and connect to the WDS server to deploy the images through standard WDS imaging.  However, I have not been able to get Multicasting to work.  I have never used Multicasting before and have read through the documentation but must be missing something.  This is what I've done:

1. In the WDS server I right click on my deployment image and select 'create multicast image' then go through the prompts to create an auto-cast image.  

2. The Multicast image is created and shown as 'waiting' on the WDS server.

3. The Cisco router is brand new out of the box, the only configuration I did was to enable IGMP snooping.  I did not make any other changes to the setup of the switch.

4. I boot a target machine via PXE using the same Boot Image that I always use.  It loads to the screen where I can select the image I want to deploy but it never shows the multicast image as an option.  I only see the regular image I had previously been using.

I'm not sure what else I'm missing in order to get the target machine to connect and image using the multicast image.  

Here are a few screen shots of what I have setup:

Here is the multicast image created on the server

Here is the Cisco Router configuration:

Here is the NIC card configuration on the server:

This is the target laptop booted via PXE but it never shows the multicast image as an option.

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Hello all:

I have WDS set up on my Server 2012 r2 Standard server.  I was able to use WDS to capture an image on a Windows 8.1 Pro machine and it captured and deployed just fine.  I then moved on to my next build which was a Windows 7 x86 machine.  The capture worked just fine however during deployment, I get the error message: "Windows cannot install required files.  Make sure all files required for installation are available, and restart the installation."

I have read many forum posts and how-tos on the subject suggesting the .wim or RES.rwm were corrupted, retook the image to fix the issue with the same result.  I have read that the image group may be corrupted, backed up my images, deleted, and recreated the image group then imported my image again with the same result.  I have tried multicasting and unicasting.  I have tried this on multiple machines in case there were hardware level issues (i.e. bad ram, etc).  I cannot get this image to deploy and I am truly frustrated over this.  

Anyone have any guidance at all?  

Thanks,

Ron

A while backI createda WindowsServer2012 R2withWDStoimage laptops and Desktops. Aftersome hassleswiththe capture imageall workedandalsotheimagesoffourdifferent systems thatwe have succeeded.

I added for all 4systemsthenetworkdriverpackages.

Now I justkeep gettingan error when I have alaptop or desktopbootfrom the network andthen want to install Windows.

Error is :
WdsClient:An error occurredwhilestartingnetworking: amatchingnetworkcard driverwasnot foundinthis image.Pleasehave yourAdministratoraddthenetworkdriverforthismachine to theWindows PEimageon the Windows Deployment Servicesserver.

It seems it appearsthatthenetworkdriver is missingbut I'vereally put themall inandthe weirdest thing isthe following: Ithenjust do itagainand againif necessary andthenat one pointit just works.

mostly I try it 3 to5 times,butsometimes2 times andonetimeeven9 times (>_<) to get it to work
But eventuallythey do whatthey should do.

Doesoneof you have experiencewith this?I cannotfind muchon the internetsimilar tomy situation.
I like thatthey juststart correctly the first timewithoutthat error messageofa network driver:)

Thanks in advance

Hi,

I'm relatively new to Windows - having spent more time with Linux so perhaps I'm not thinking the right way.

I'm trying to find a way to get Autounattend.xml to also install other things - things that I'd like to include in my base image. I'm struggling to find any good documentation which explains how I can do this in an automated way.

There's a lot about booting up post setup to allow manual install and configure the system and then do a sysprep to prepare it for use as a clone. However there's nothing on how to have applications automatically installed.

Is there something I've missed?

My desire is to remove as much manual work as possible to ensure that my server config can be checked into source control and easily re-run.

Thanks in advance for your help.

Tom

I have had issues for the past week getting the deployment server to recognize an HP EliteOne 800. At first, I was receiving an error x000000f. There was no activity whatsoever. Next, I injected the drivers (even though I had already created the Capture Image from a perfectly fine Instal WIM.) After we injected the drivers, we proceeded to just have a black screen without ever seeing the Capture Wizard. I went back and created a capture image on Server 2008 and then imported it to the new deployment Server that is 2012. 

As things looked more hopeful, Server 2012 has since booted the Capture Wizard, but the Task Progress will not proceed past 1%. We are trying to Capture  Windows 7 Enterprise on Server 2012. I am not really sure how to troubleshoot this one since we have injected the drivers, created images on separate servers, and tried to force it in the cmd line. 

Any suggestions?

I work for a company that doesn't give us Windows Disks and Keys.  The central IT group develops standard images, which have an MAK baked in, and gives us those canned images to use.

I had a server that was running, nice and happy, from one of these images.  Windows was successfully activated, and life was good.

I had to divert this server to run some experiments with Linux.  When those experiments were concluded, I reinstalled my Windows image on this server.  I tried to activate it online from the baked-in key, and it failed, with an error to the effect that 'the Multi-Activation Key has reached its limit'.

I tried to use the 'call Microsoft on the phone and walk through the activation manually', but clicjing that link from the activation screen tries to bring up Internet Explorer, which is not on this system as this is a 'secured baseline'.  System doesn't have Java, either, which I think is required for those pages.

I already have a ticket open with my company, but while I'm waiting for them to get back to me, I thought I'd check here and see if anyone has any ideas.

Version is Windows Server 2008 R2 x64 Standard Edition with SP1.

Hi All,

Where I can find the WDS String Value to configure DHCP port 67

Hello,

I have create a boot image of Windows 8.1 then create a capture image for that. But 

After sysprep of windows 8.1 system, Try to boot from windows 8.1 capture image, I am getting the error.

"

0xc0000225 - File \Windows\System32\winload.efi is either corrupted or missing"

Please anyone helpme out

Rakesh Kumar

I loaded two completely identical VMs and was only able to install the IIS role on one of them. I rebuilt the server and had the same issue.

i had a windows server 2008 r2 server , i replaced it with ws 2012 r2 ,,,, now when i tried to get back the machines on it , and after too many booting errors ended up with me installing a new os and attach the old disks on it ..

one of the machines came up but with a very old version of it  ...  i tried to import it again but it needed the checkpoints related to it

by search i knew that the check points are on the c:\program files \hyper v etc ... which is deleted because i installed a new windows

what can i do now to get the machine to work with its most recent version .... i ve snapshot files ... a avhdx file that cannot inspect its parent ... and the disks of that vm

if i cant get the machine to work .. how can i extract the data from the avhdx file

Thanks in advance

Hello,

I want to install Active Directory Federation Services on my Windows Server 2012 R2 domain controller. When configuring the ADFS installation for the domain controller, the next error comes up during the prerequisites check:
"The target computer is not joined to a domain, only machines that are joined to a domain can be members of a AD FS farm."

This is the first Domain controller created within the environment with around 8 member servers.

Is there any way to see why Windows is giving me the error that the DC is not joined to a domain?

Regards,
Remco V

Hi

I am running WDS in Windows Server 2008 R2. I have created an WDS Client answer file to automated first screen (UI Language/Locale page) and disk partitioning. However, I still get the first UI Language/Locale selection page. automated disk configuration works just fine.

I have further noticed that if I include <Login> section and automated user/password/domain portion, it doesn't display UI Language/Local  page!

I just want to see the Login page and Image selection page.

Here is a copy of my current wdsClientUnattend.xml file:

<?xml version="1.0" ?><unattendxmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:unattend"><settingspass="windowsPE"><componentname="Microsoft-Windows-Setup"publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35"language="neutral"versionScope="nonSxS"processorArchitecture="amd64"><WindowsDeploymentServices><ImageSelection><WillShowUI>OnError</WillShowUI><InstallTo><DiskID>0</DiskID><PartitionID>1</PartitionID></InstallTo></ImageSelection></WindowsDeploymentServices><DiskConfiguration><WillShowUI>OnError</WillShowUI><Disk><DiskID>0</DiskID><WillWipeDisk>true</WillWipeDisk><CreatePartitions><CreatePartition><Order>1</Order><Type>Primary</Type><extend>true</extend></CreatePartition></CreatePartitions></Disk></DiskConfiguration></component><componentname="Microsoft-Windows-International-Core-WinPE"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"><SetupUILanguage><UILanguage>en-US</UILanguage></SetupUILanguage><InputLocale>en-US</InputLocale><SystemLocale>en-US</SystemLocale><UILanguage>en-US</UILanguage><UserLocale>en-US</UserLocale></component></settings></unattend>

Thanks in advance!

uc

Hi
I am using MDT with WDS to deploy windows server.

All is fine, besides WMI from Zenoss for monitoring, it show's me errors like 

" Could not read the Windows event log (NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED). Check your username/password settings and verify network connectivity."

If i do the same installation by hand, everything works.

Do you have any idea how installation from MDT differs from by hand installation, that could have impact on WMI?

Hello, I have some questions about how multicast functions in a WDS environment when one switch is IGMP enabled but others are not.

I work for a training center, and we use WDS and MDT to deploy operating system images and virtual machines onto classroom pc's every week. My company's multicast deployments have never worked as reliably as we would want, and I realized that the D-Link dgs-1024d switches we use in the classrooms are not IGMP compatible. I presume that the multicast traffic from the WDS server is being converted into broadcast traffic and transmitted to every port on the switch, which is not necessarily bad, because we are deploying to the entire room at once. What I'm unsure about is what happens when we deploy different images to different rooms at the same time. We have our WDS server connected to a Netgear GS724T Switch (which is IGMP v2 compatible), which connects to our half dozen classroom switches. We do not use VLANs, and we use only one subnet for the deployment network.

My questions are:

1. When I create two multicast transmissions at the same time (each to a different classroom), will the Netgear switch correctly forward the traffic to only the switch that connects to the computers that requested the transmission, or will the D-Link switches' inability to process IGMP cause the Netgear switch to just send the broadcast transmission to all of it's ports, causing both broadcasts to be sent to every port on the subnet?

2. If my network is guilty of spamming multiple broadcasts, what is a good way to remedy this? We are in the process of replacing our WDS server, would it be a worthwhile solution to put a half dozen nics in the new server, and connect each of the classroom switches directly to a nic in the WDS server, would that improve performance (we deploy images that are up to 40GB), or would that configuration just run into the same problems?

Thanks!

Hi !

I have a problem in Windows Server 2012 R2 : I have searched and try everything I know to fix this, but I cannot start NetTcpPortSharing service and therefore I cannot configure Windows Server Essentials Role, among other things.

I have theses services not starting :

• (gupdate (Google Update))
• NetTcpActivator
• ADWS (keeps restarting (115 times in a few hours))
• WseNtfSvc
• NetTcpPortSharing
• ServiceProviderRegistry
• NetPipeActivator

A lot of them depend on NetTcpPortSharing service I believe. I've been googling for two days now and haven't found anything. I tried ProcessMonitor but no particular error.

The domain is quite new and reinstalling is not an option here. I'd really appreciate help guys I don't know what to do here (for any of these services)! 

Thank you !

Here are two of the error codes :

Une demande de démarrage du service a échoué.
Code d'erreur : System.Configuration.ConfigurationErrorsException: Le type 'Microsoft.VisualStudio.Diagnostics.ServiceModelSink.Behavior, Microsoft.VisualStudio.Diagnostics.ServiceModelSink, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a' inscrit pour l'extension 'Microsoft.VisualStudio.Diagnostics.ServiceModelSink.Behavior' n'a pas pu être chargé. (C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30319\Config\machine.config line 254)
à System.Configuration.BaseConfigurationRecord.EvaluateOne(String[] keys, SectionInput input, Boolean isTrusted, FactoryRecord factoryRecord, SectionRecord sectionRecord, Object parentResult)
à System.Configuration.BaseConfigurationRecord.Evaluate(FactoryRecord factoryRecord, SectionRecord sectionRecord, Object parentResult, Boolean getLkg, Boolean getRuntimeObject, Object& result, Object& resultRuntimeObject)
à System.Configuration.BaseConfigurationRecord.GetSectionRecursive(String configKey, Boolean getLkg, Boolean checkPermission, Boolean getRuntimeObject, Boolean requestIsHere, Object& result, Object& resultRuntimeObject)
à System.Configuration.BaseConfigurationRecord.GetSectionRecursive(String configKey, Boolean getLkg, Boolean checkPermission, Boolean getRuntimeObject, Boolean requestIsHere, Object& result, Object& resultRuntimeObject)
à System.Configuration.BaseConfigurationRecord.GetSectionRecursive(String configKey, Boolean getLkg, Boolean checkPermission, Boolean getRuntimeObject, Boolean requestIsHere, Object& result, Object& resultRuntimeObject)
à System.Configuration.BaseConfigurationRecord.GetSectionRecursive(String configKey, Boolean getLkg, Boolean checkPermission, Boolean getRuntimeObject, Boolean requestIsHere, Object& result, Object& resultRuntimeObject)
à System.Configuration.BaseConfigurationRecord.GetSection(String configKey)
à System.Configuration.ConfigurationManager.GetSection(String sectionName)
à System.ServiceModel.Activation.AspNetEnvironment.UnsafeGetSectionFromConfigurationManager(String sectionPath)
à System.ServiceModel.Configuration.ConfigurationHelpers.UnsafeGetAssociatedSection(ContextInformation evalContext, String sectionPath)
à System.ServiceModel.Configuration.CommonBehaviorsSection.UnsafeGetSection()
à System.ServiceModel.Description.ConfigLoader.LoadServiceDescription(ServiceHostBase host, ServiceDescription description, ServiceElement serviceElement, Action`1 addBaseAddress, Boolean skipHost)
à System.ServiceModel.ServiceHostBase.LoadConfigurationSectionInternal(ConfigLoader configLoader, ServiceDescription description, ServiceElement serviceSection)
à System.ServiceModel.ServiceHost.ApplyConfiguration()
à System.ServiceModel.ServiceHostBase.InitializeDescription(UriSchemeKeyedCollection baseAddresses)
à System.ServiceModel.ServiceHost..ctor(Type serviceType, Uri[] baseAddresses)
à System.ServiceModel.Activation.SharingService.StartControlService()
à System.ServiceModel.Activation.SharingService.Start()
à System.ServiceModel.Activation.TcpPortSharing.OnStart(String[] args)
Nom du processus : SMSvcHost
ID du processus : 3736

Application : Microsoft.ActiveDirectory.WebServices.exe
Version du Framework : v4.0.30319
Description : le processus a été arrêté en raison d'une exception non gérée.
Informations sur l'exception : System.Configuration.ConfigurationErrorsException
Pile :
à System.Configuration.BaseConfigurationRecord.GetSectionRecursive(System.String, Boolean, Boolean, Boolean, Boolean, System.Object ByRef, System.Object ByRef)
à System.Configuration.BaseConfigurationRecord.GetSection(System.String)
à System.Configuration.ConfigurationManager.GetSection(System.String)
à System.ServiceModel.Activation.AspNetEnvironment.UnsafeGetSectionFromConfigurationManager(System.String)
à System.ServiceModel.Configuration.ConfigurationHelpers.UnsafeGetAssociatedSection(System.Configuration.ContextInformation, System.String)
à System.ServiceModel.Configuration.CommonBehaviorsSection.UnsafeGetSection()
à System.ServiceModel.Description.ConfigLoader.LoadServiceDescription(System.ServiceModel.ServiceHostBase, System.ServiceModel.Description.ServiceDescription, System.ServiceModel.Configuration.ServiceElement, System.Action`1<System.Uri>, Boolean)
à System.ServiceModel.ServiceHostBase.LoadConfigurationSectionInternal(System.ServiceModel.Description.ConfigLoader, System.ServiceModel.Description.ServiceDescription, System.ServiceModel.Configuration.ServiceElement)
à System.ServiceModel.ServiceHost.ApplyConfiguration()
à System.ServiceModel.ServiceHostBase.InitializeDescription(System.ServiceModel.UriSchemeKeyedCollection)
à System.ServiceModel.ServiceHost..ctor(System.Type, System.Uri[])
à Microsoft.ActiveDirectory.WebServices.ADWSHost..ctor(System.Uri[])
à Microsoft.ActiveDirectory.WebServices.ADWSHostFactory.CreateServiceHost(System.String, System.Uri[])
à Microsoft.ActiveDirectory.WebServices.WindowsHostService.StartService(System.Object)
à System.Threading.ExecutionContext.RunInternal(System.Threading.ExecutionContext, System.Threading.ContextCallback, System.Object, Boolean)
à System.Threading.ExecutionContext.Run(System.Threading.ExecutionContext, System.Threading.ContextCallback, System.Object, Boolean)
à System.Threading.ExecutionContext.Run(System.Threading.ExecutionContext, System.Threading.ContextCallback, System.Object)
à System.Threading.ThreadHelper.ThreadStart(System.Object)

Hi

I wanted to upload some images in my WDS .after Sysprep /oobe/generalize I used wds to capture windows 8.1 x64 .

after that capturing finished I realized that the image size is 13GB and after installation that image on a pc I found that it used 30 GB of C drive .

I used disk clean up and again did the process of capturing .this time the image is 12 GB and after installation it used 25 GB of Drive C .

I believe that there is something wrong for that huge image .I expected at most 18 or 19 GB .

Would you please give me your advice ?

thans a million