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Import bootable USB into MDT
Hello,I have received a USB bootable Media and I want to 'import' this into MDT so I can deploy multiple computers at onceThis is the structure of the usb mediaI have tried copying the contents of the...
View ArticlePXE boot returning PXE-E53 "No boot filename received" Winows Server 2012 WDS
I have WDS running on 2012. the server it is on is not the DC and does not run DHCP (The DC does). I have installed the boot image, captured a generalized image, added the Driver groups, created...
View ArticleDeploy Windows Server 2008 Foundation
HiOur head office have windows server 2008 R2 Standard Edition as Domain controller.can we deploy windows server 2008 foundation as another domain controller at Branch office?if we can deploy then what...
View ArticleWindows Deployment Services and Windows 8.1 Tablet Autorotation Issue
Hi,I have been trying to deploy a vanilla Windows 8.1 image to Fujitsu Stylistic Q702 Hybrid Tablet using WDS, however this appears to prevent the automatic screen rotation functionality.When installed...
View Articledism /online /set-edition
I'm in the process of 'upgrading' / changing the server version on 2008 standard server. I went through the process but wanted to wait and restart after hours, this did not work well.The process I'm...
View ArticleWDS PXE-E16 error when booting UEFI clients
I'm really just hoping to save fellow techs some work here. I had no idea what was going on and found very little information on the search engines to guide me to resolution. Here's the short story:...
View ArticleWould PKI Infrastructure be affected when upgrading schema from Windows 2003
HiI am planning my schema upgrade from either Windows 2003 to Windows 2008 or from Windows 2003 to Windows 2012.I would like to know if in any of these scenarios would my PKI Infrastructure be...
View Articlewindows 2012 answer file and DVD drive letter
Himy question is about applying unattend XML file into a Wim file. I have read other thread here but still I can't get it to work. so here is the situation:I have installed windows 2012 then I have...
View ArticleIn-Place upgrade of 2008 R2 SP1 server to 2012 - 0x80070490
I'm trying to upgrade one of our fileservers to 2012 from 2008 R2 SP1. It already failed once and I was forced to rollback to the previous version of Windows. Now, when I try I am continually getting...
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[Forum FAQ] PXE Boot Details
In this article, we will introduce how PXE boot works.Demo Environment:Server 1: DHCP with WDS role IP address: 10.10.10.52Server 2: WDS role IP address: 10.10.10.2As this demo is based on a...
View ArticleUnattend errors - MDT,WDS,ADK
I Just setup a new Server 2012 R2 running Wds , MDT and Windows ADK I am having issues loading the captured image back to the pc. I get this error: Error : Windows could not parse or process unattend...
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84.0 GB (32.0 GB usable) Windows Server 2008 R2 64 bit Enterprise...
84.0 GB (32.0 GB usable) Windows Server 2008 R2 64 bit Enterprise W/Enterprise license.From all I've read, an Enterprise Version of 2k8 server should allow up to 2 TB of ram....
View ArticleSFC problem - "Windows Resource Protection could not start the repair service"
We are trying to attempt to fix a Windows 2008 start up problem. We boot the machine from a Windows 2008 CD and go to the repair tool - command prompt.When we do the command sfc /scannow, we are...
View ArticleDeploying 64bit system reserved partition using imagex
I have a number of WIM images that I am using successfully with imagex to deploy win7 with a system reserved partition.I have 2 wim's per os version, one for the system reserved partition, and another...
View ArticleVPN to WDS with a pre-execute environment: is it possible?
With the interest in security these days I'm surprised it hasn't been done, at least not that I can find. Is it at all possible to have a VPN tunnel from the PE environment to the WDS server (e.g.,...
View ArticleOptional DC based on dynamic IP address
Hi folks, my question is really simple and the answer might be obvious to you but since I'm not and expert in Windows (and I'm asked to back my answer with examples) I would like to check it with you....
View ArticleKMS on 2008 R2 : the software licencing service reported that the computer...
hi, We are trying to activate 2012 R2 KMS client against a 2008 R2 KMS server but we got error of "the software licencing service reported that the computer cannot be activated. No key Management...
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WDS Boot Problem
Hi All,I have WDS (standalone) on Server 2012 R2 and DHCP is on the same box. When I PXE boot, some machines booted fine some of machine didn't (same hardware type, same model) and I got following...
View Articleacpitabl.dat failed to boot windows server 2003 Enterprise
Hi team,I have issue. suddenly my OS failed to booterror hal.dll missing.then, I replace the hal.dll with the correct OS version.after that, windows can boot but hung at process acpitabl.dat if I seen...
View ArticleUpdating a sysprep'd shutdown Windows Server 2012 image
I've created a Windows Server 2012 image template on VMware & have shut it down with generalize oobe settings along with my customized unattend.xml answer file which skips the rearming. Now my...
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