Server 2012 + WDS + PXE + DHCP handled by router
Hi,I'm very surprised that I've found minimal posts about this:I have Win Server 2012 x64. I want to use WDS to distribute Windows 7. I don't want the server to manage dhcp because the router is...
View ArticleWDS 2012 Driver Pools
Anyone have information about configureing a driver pool in WDS 2012 by model number? We have several model numbers in use if we dont create any driver pools it work s fine but if we add a driver...
View ArticleUpdate Internet Time using batch script or powershell
Hi guys,Is there any commands to sync Internet Time to a specific IP ? (In linux i use this command "ntpdate x.x.x.x" - x.x.x.x is my time server IP)I have a Time Server which has an IP x.x.x.xI deploy...
View ArticleCan windows server 2008 32 bit run on Intel Xeon E3 1200 processor series?
I need to buy a server, processor Intel Xeon E3-1230 or above. My company prefers to run windows server 2008 32 bit OS on the server. OEM like Dell claimed that, Intel no longer supports 32 bit OS in...
View ArticleThis page can't be displayed
HiI'm trying to purchase a Windows License (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=165432&clcid=0x0809) for Windows Server 2008, as the activation period has ended, but I keep getting a "this page...
View ArticleNew Install of Windows Server 2008R2 from ISO file to New Dell Servers w/o OS
I have a newly configured Dell server with no operating system. I downloaded the Windows Serer 2008 R2 ISO file from the Microsoft Licensing Center and attempted to load to no avail.Message reads:No...
View ArticleWindows Deployment service architecture fail?
We have a Windows 2008 server with WDS and MDT, in MDT we have multiple X86 and X64 windows 7 images and we want to use the Lite touch PE from MDT to capture and install our images.If we add Lite touch...
View ArticleKB2592525 for Office Web app server not installing
I have a VM with Windows 2008 R2 Enterprise 64 bit and I am trying to install Office Web apps. I am trying to install the perquisite KB2592525. But when I download and install this update I receive a...
View ArticleWDS & OEM Question
Hi All, I think i already know the answer but here goes. We have about an average of 20-30 PC's every month to deploy and they are HP machines that come preinstalled I want to create an image of the...
View ArticleVolume Activation Management Tool invalid characters bug.
I have a Multiple Activation Key from my Technet subscription for Windows 8 Enterprise, and wanted to find out how many activations I am allowed, and how many I have left. I was advised by a colleague...
View ArticleDrivers Installation
Hi,I would like to have specific Drivers (i.e Video,Sound,touchpad e.t.c) installed on varieties of laptops & PCs when deploying using WDS. how can i accomplish this?Meshack
View ArticleSQL server 2008 R2 enterprise
I am attempting to install Microsoft SQL server 2008 R2 on my windows 7 32-Bit and getting these errors and not able to register components during the install. TITLE: Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2...
View ArticleSysprep Issues
I am having a couple of issues when trying to deploy a clone a resource vm to development vm. Running Windows Server 2008 R2, and resource VM has 6 separate VHDs. the drive letters for the separate...
View ArticleSFU installation on windows 2008 R2 goes into Cygwin setup
HiI'm installing SFU onto a windows 2008 R2 64-bit machine.download works fine,it then unzips the setup package, and immediately begins a Cygwin net install setup program.I'm familiar with Cygwin..just...
View ArticleNetwork SHARES/Resources extremely slow on Server 2008 Standard... Help Please
Hi, I recently switched over from Server 2003 Standard to Server 2008 Standard. I did a clean install.In my server i have 10 hard drives, all of which are mirrored.The 5 main drives (again, other 5...
View ArticleWDS Windows Server 2003 R2 SP2
I am hoping for a bit of help. It has been a while since I configured WDS. We used to run RIS and have some legacy images which work OK.I would like to deploy a Windows 7 image. I created a boot image...
View Articlecannot update windows; error code: 800F081F
I encountered this problem and followed some suggestions in some posts on the internetBut none worked for me. I think the problem also results in zune setup failture, with the error code 0x8024200d,...
View ArticleWDS won't reply to PXE clients. Windows Server 2012
Hello,I have following setup: On Hyper-V 2012 running in cluster onData Center edition of Windows Server 2012, I have VM with WindowsStandart 2012 where I have WDS running. WDS services configured to...
View ArticleNvidia PXE WDS boot extremely slow.
Hi All,A lot of PCs in our business use NVIDIA pxe boot. Machines that do take such a long time to do anything over a PXE boot. Literally, an hour+ to boot the boot/boot.sdi and I've never fully...
View Articledism error :3 The system cannot find the path specified.
and the dism.log:2013-05-10 19:35:03, Info DISM PID=4120 Scratch directory set to 'C:\Users\ADMINI~1\AppData\Local\Temp\'. - CDISMManager::put_ScratchDir 2013-05-10 19:35:03, Info...
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