Hi, Just noticed a problem here which possible has been happening since we first introduced WinPE 2.0. WinPE 1.6 and below does not have his error, I use WinPE all flavours here to deploy images onto systems. One task is to set the system clock using net time /domain:****** /set /yes but this corrupts the Lease Obtained time to a point in the past << see. Due to the qty of systems attaching, the lease time is eight hours. Under normal operation, the systems are complete and removed before the lease expires but some systems will remain connected and when the lease expires, it cannot obtain a new address and will drop off the network causing configuration issues. doing ipconfig /release and the /renew is hit and miss if it works. No errors on the dhcp server, and no requests sent from the client. w32tm is not supported in pe nor is _local_time part of its wmi subset,,, Anyone come across this at all... I use a windows 2003 wds with legacy. Tested: net time \\server_name /set / yes Windows 2000 domain Windows 2008 domain Logging on with domain credentials prior to running net time pausing script after network initialisation then running net time pausing all over the script after net time, including ip.../ /release /renew at varying pause times, sometimes the lease renews, most times it will not... and on and on and on