2008 R2 WDS - Inject a Specific Driver Group into Boot Image
Team,Running Server 2008 R2 SP1 with all current updates. Have WDS Role installed and so far, it is working great. Under drivers, I have created different "Driver Groups" for each type of PC we could...
View ArticleWindows 7 Dell OEM distribution from Windows deployment server
Hey guys,So the company I work for regularly replaces its laptops with new Dells. What we want to do is create a install using windows deployment server, seeing as the number of laptops we need to...
View Article2012 WDS driver question
Hi,I am trying to deploy an IBM HS22 blade and am having issues getting the NIC recognized. The server has two low speed (BCM5709S NetXtreme II GigE 1GB) cards and two high speed (BCM5711 NetXtreme II...
View ArticleCannot deploy image using WDS to a bigger hard drive
We created a Windows 7 - 64 bit image. We are able to deploy this image to a Lenovo T430i running a Seagate 320 GB hard-drive successfully.However when we try to push the same image to the same...
View ArticleWDS AD DS Name overwrite unattended hostname?
Hello gents.I´m in need of assistance.The question is simple:Will the "Client Nameing Policy" in the AD DS tab overwrite the "Computername" in the unattended.xml file?Example:I set a name in the client...
View ArticleWIndows Server 2008 R2 & Adaptec 6x05 RAID controller
Has anyone found a working around for the no signed drivers found for the Adaptec 6 series durning a fresh install?
View ArticleWDS Lenovo T430i error 80070570
This seem to be a common error with WDS/WIM imaging, and we are now getting it on the Lenovo T430i for the win7 32 bit image. But not any of our other 10+ models of desktop and notebooks. The weird...
View ArticleWDS and silent installation switches in unattend, not working
To make a long story short: I am trying to deploy Windows 7 Enterprise x64 onto an HP EliteBook 8560w laptop, using WDS on Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard, with Driver Injection as our means of driver...
View ArticleDISM error attempting to run online upgrade from Windows Server 2008 R2...
I am running the following command on Windows Server 2008R2C:\Windows\system32>dism /online /set-edition:serverdatacenter /productkey:xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxxI get the following...
View ArticleUnable To Skip User Account Creation During Windows 7 Unattended Install
Hello,I am trying to create a fully unattended Windows 7 SP1 installation using Windows Deployment Services (WDS) and an image created using ImageX. I have created two unattend files, one for WDS...
View ArticleISCSI intiator on 2003 sp1 server
Can any one help me, how to install the SCSI initiator in windows 2003 server for VCB...
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 ArticleDeployment using WDS, monitoring using wdsTptMgmt API - not all connected...
Hi all,Have been seeking a post by anoyne who may have reported a similar issue but I've been unable to find one.We use WDS on Windows Server 2008 R2 to deploy a variety of images (some Windows Server...
View ArticleProblem with physical build
I have MDT 2010 environment.Network boot is done via WDS. After the network, it is configured to take the Deployment credentials automatically to proceed with the OS deploy.In my custom settings,...
View ArticleWDS TFTP time out
Hi GuysI am facing TFTP timeout issue on firewall separated Vlans(ports are opened for WDS server) in PXE booting from WDS while If the booting client, the DHCP server, and the WDS server are...
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TFTP open timeout with CCBoot
So I got CCBoot Server & Client to be able to boot Windows 7 from Network.I have a DNS & DHCP server running on 192.168.133.245I installed CCBoot Server on our Web Server on 192.168.133.239I...
View ArticleWINPE and PING
If a Server is booted up in WINPE and I have the NIC drive installed and an IP assigned.....should thatServer reply to a ping ??? the winpe computer(server) can ping everyone all over but I...
View ArticleUseing Windows Deployment Service to install and activate your Dell OEM copy...
(this is not a question this is me sharing how I solved this problem)Hello Boys and Girls,I spent the better part of 2 months figuring out how to install and active Dell OEM copies of Windows 7 using...
View ArticleError "0xc1420119" while creating a new catalog for Windows 8 in a Server 2008
Hi guys!I want to deploy Windows 8 in a bunch of PC´s, so i decided to use my Server 2008 with WDS to make this work a little bit easier and quicker. I hadn´t got any problems during neither the...
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