jpboyce

Thanks for the reply cluberti. I had originally tried using WDS for this but found it very frustrating. In the past I'd used RIS and have more experience with it than WDS which is why I reverted to using it. I'm also kind of stuck with using XP as the operating system as the Hyper-V server I'm using is fairly limited on RAM, so I'm allocating 512MB per virtual machine. If I switched to Vista or 7, I'd probably have to bump that up to 1gig.

Hi all, I have the following setup: - A Windows 2008 R2 server running Hyper-V for testing purposes - 2008 R2 Domain Controller (virtualised) - 2003 member server running RIS My intent has been to setup RIS to deploy Windows XP to virtual machines in a fashion that's as automated as possible. Thanks to the documentation on this site, I'm almost there. When I'm setting up the virtual XP machines, they have only the Legacy Network Adapter installed to allow PXE booting. I've run into one problem - the virtual XP machine doesn't appear to join the domain and upon the first login, I am logging in as a local user. If I check the Computer Name tab under system properties, it lists a workgroup. In addition, the network card isn't installed properly, as if it's missing drivers. I've tried extracting all the drivers from the Integrated Services ISO that comes with Hyper-V and adding them to my RIS deployment. I've also taken the Legacy Network Adapter drivers from a WinPE boot image. The latest attempt doing this appears to have installed some of the drivers properly, including the network card. It just seems it's not there when it's at the stage of attempting to join the domain. All machines involved are on the same subnet, firewalls disabled, etc. Any ideas, suggestions etc? Thanks.