Issue getting IP address in WdsClient from DHCP server on WDS 2012
Hi thereI have to install new Windows 10 pro images on 175 Lenovo computers. I am trying to use WDS on WS2012 R2. So far I installed WDS role and DHCP server in the same VM and I can capture an image...
View ArticleMinimum permissions to complete WDS installation
We have loaner laptops and when they come back we re-image / refresh them before they are loaned out again. We have a student worker that we would like to have image these laptops using WDS. What...
View ArticleRepairing a Windows Installation 2012 R2
Hi,I have a server which recently applied a batch of updates and it screwed it up, the server doesn't boot and the server recovery environment doesnt have as good repair tools as the client (like...
View ArticleWindows has detected a change to system files that is preventing activation
We use KMS to activate windows in our environment. The machine was with windows 10 Enterprise LTSB 10240 x64. This occur on only one machine. We use SCCM 1607 to install machines. This occur after...
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KMS host - not publishing to DNS
Hi Installed the KMS host but I noticed not able to publish in the DNS the information I executed the command below , but the information is not available NSLOOKUP -type=SRV...
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Dism Cleanup-Image error
I'm executing `Dism.exe /online /Cleanup-Image /StartComponentCleanup` as a part of regular maintenance. It's working fine on Windows 2012r2, but it fails from time to time on Windows 2016. Here's...
View ArticleSysprep Before Or After Cloning A Hyper-V VM
Hi all, I hope you are well.I am just looking for some advise/best practice on cloning Hyper-V VMs. The scenario we have is one production VM that we wish to make a clone of, it's an RDS server and we...
View ArticleMDT LiteTouch capture stalls on "Capturing progress"
All, This issue has me stumped.I have a reference image on a virtual machine. I ran the MDT LiteTouch sequence from the VM and everything seems to be going great. The deployment share is on the...
View ArticleUpdate ISA and VHD
Hi!Is it possible to make an Operating System ISO and vhd files automatically update from Windows Update whenever there are new windows updates?Thanks.
View ArticleUpdate ISO and VHD
Hi!Is it possible to make an Operating System ISO and vhd files automatically update from Windows Update whenever there are new windows updates?Thanks.
View ArticleMobile Device Center after Win10 update
I installed the latest update for Win10 but afterwards, got error message that windows Mobile Device Center 6.1 was not working with suggestion to reinstall. Tried that but got an error that a...
View ArticleAdding Local Admin to windows 10 without getting "This App cant open"
Has anyone figured out how to add local admin through gpo and have it work right on windows 10.Prier to windows 10, I would Create a new GPO and in the Computer Configuration go to Windows Settings...
View ArticleServer 2016 Using unattend.xml with a sysprep'd image
Good Day,I have a hyper-v image which I have run sysprep /oobe /generalize /shutdown on. From doing some reading it seems that all I should need to do is put my unattend.xml file in the \panther...
View ArticleKMS activation is failing for several machines
I have a number of machines (servers and workstations) that are failing when I try to activate them using our KMS server.The server has been running fine for over a year but recently has been failing...
View ArticleError message when i pxe boot to x86
Hi GuysI have got wds setup on a windows 2008 r2 servser with x86 images and x64 images. that has been working fine until the switch got upgraded in the build area, now all i can boot is the x64 bit...
View ArticleSettings - Recovery is Empty after I installed the latest updates
Windows Server 2016 Standard x64, I recently installed the latest update.A refresh setup from the RTM image, there's some options in the Settings - Recovery page.However, after I installed all the...
View ArticleDomain Setup
We are looking at setting up a remote office for our current office.Remote Office will not have connectivity to our FSMO servers or the HQ Primary site for 4~6 months.What we are looking at is if we...
View ArticleWDS 2012 Image Capture - Stuck at 50% "Capturing Windows image metadata..."
I have tried capturing a few images after running sysprep, and they are getting stuck at 50% completion, never moving past after hours of waiting. "Capturing Windows image metadata...". If I look on...
View ArticleWDS on 2008 R2 - working with UEFI systems but not with BIOS based systems ->...
Hi there,I'm trying to set up a multipurpose PXE environment using WDS for demo purposes and debugging something a customer is trying to do.There's multiple issues here I'm afraid. One being I'm unable...
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Screen resolution when PXE boot from WDS vs Install Windows 8.1 from USB
Hi all I own a Lenovo ThinkPad T430s, X230 Tablet, and now have my hands on a T440. All three machines have UEFI Secure Boot enabled properly, i.e. Windows boot screen shows Lenovo logo instead of...
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