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Can you give some examples? Try http://www.ajaxpro.info/ Havent found a free one yet..

As I understand it, MS have now released a GUI for imagex....

well No the whole process has to run fully unattended the server is booting via PXE to the WinPE without any user action so i need to find a way to get rid of the linux partition in WinPE Running diskpart /s [script] with the script select disk 0 clean will wipe the drive but the problem might be with the MBR..

Bit of a high n mighty comment! .net 2 does work in PE, currently there are several commercial wrappers available on the market.

If you find out, post the solution. I personally think MS have shot them selves in the foot excluding .net from PE...

Yup, Ximage was in beta1 and earlier releases, Imagex apperead in beta 2

think you have to copy winbom.ini to the root of the pe image or summing like that, it is documented. Without it or whichever file it is when startnet completes it shuts down..

did you copy winbom.ini to the root of your pe image?

I know it's not down to domain or workgroups as my pe2 connects to anything I want. Your share may have everyone full control but what are the ntfs permissions set at on the folder that is shared. Are you using dhcp as the default subnet mask for that ip address is 255.0.0.0 which might put the systems on different subnets.

What operating system are you connecting to? Guest accounts are usually locked out. 2003 server will generally disallow accounts without passwords to connect. Create an account with a password and check share perminnsions as well as ntfs permissions to the shared folder and use the context: net use t: \\%server%\%share% password /user:usename (may need to be /user:%server or domain%\username oh, test the connection using the administrator account and test the share permissions set to everyone - full controll then work back on the security settings.

There is a .net wrapper out there for pe 1.5 1.6, one of my customers use it... I'm trying to locate it as I type.....

Want to change the regional settings using intlcfg.exe but cant get it running and the manual is not very accurate. Anyone got this going for UK settings? Ok, got the command line right, for some stupid reasn the cmd file I was running was changing the - to a u mit ein umlet. Just need to find the language source files...

Hi, Trying to make a bootable ISO of winPE 2.0 but the instructons are kina wierd. Run the copype.cmd ok and added some custom files but running oscdimg with the synrax supplied dont work. I have modified it to read: oscdimg.exe -be:\WinPE_x86\ETFSBOOT.COM -h -m -lCustomPE -n -o e:\winpe_x86\ e:\pe2.iso but when booting the bootgr is not found... Any tips.. Or has anyone sucesfully run PE 2.0 from a RIS server (Not wdss)? Thanks

Quite the opposite. From the .chm's I read, none of the previous versions supported ramdisk...(though I'm sure you could have used other "unsupported" methods in creating it...). With my version (1.6 I think), there is supported documentation to create a ramdisk, which includes one of the steps as using only a Windows Server 2003 as your source... Me Bad, been doing too much work with ramdrives withing ramdrives this week. I meant pagefile. Pe1.1 will make a pagefile regardless of RAM. Will se if I can dig out some info on it. Personally, get a latter version of PE....

Found out what it was. I had a very small JPG image on a form which was making the code bomb out when run from ramdisk. You could not make this up.....

Which version of PE you using, thought the latter versions didnt create a ramdisk. 1.6 here wipes the hard drive on those systems with no problem.

You can get a wrapper for .net that will run in pe. Found out what it was, a small jpg on my form was stopping it run, strange...

Looks like I am going to need to upgrade to winpe2WDS earlier than I hoped, the new breed of centrino duo's will boot in pe1.6/RIS but takes 6 times longer to boot even if I boot pe to ram first. Network speeds once PE is loaded is ok. Found the RIS transfer of PE is the problem, using WDS boot is at normal speed. The problem Is that our server environment is mostly Netware 5.5 without native file access for windows. I got ipx/spx and novell login working on PE 1.6 but cannot do this on 2.0. I have the login running and nwclient installs but not ip. this installation is very 'dirty' as well. Has anyone managed to get ipx/netware client running inside PE2?

Thats not it, found out last night the code is failing at some of the first wmi queries, gonna rewrite the program in .net....

I want to filter information from a database within frontpage 2003 to select within a date range. Currently I use a form to write the two dates to a dates table within the database then run a sql query to return the results to a third table then get frontpage to display the results and do calculations on the data in the third table. It works but only functions correctly if only 1 person runs the report. Is there a way to input the date range on one page which can then be passed as a variable to the sql query run on the following report page? Thanks..

It might be something as stupid as explorer not checking for changes in pages. goto Tools - Internet Options - under Temporary Internet Files click Settings and make sure Check for newer versions is set to Every Visit...

Just been informed by one of my lads that injecting drivers into the february waik in broken and the may waik not much better. Tried it with some drivers in the lab an yup, none of them loaded....

All remember - WinPE 2.0 is still in beta and likly to have feature changes. Asfar as I am aware. you can use a utility called peimg to inject the raid drivers or at boot press F6 to install additional storage driver. I can't give you a step by step cos I hanvt started building my pe2 environment yet.

Dont forget, WDS and PE2 are still only beta 2.....

As far as I know, Pe2 can only be deployed through a Windows Deployment Server (WDS). Good news is WDS will reside along with the RIS server on the same system. BINLsvc becomes redundant which is a good thing.