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I'm assuming it's a single DC, in a single domain forest, and it's the DNS and DHCP (and possibly WINS) server for the domain? Make sure that the DC points to itself (and ONLY itself) for DNS and WINS resolution, and that the clients ONLY point to the DC as their DNS server. If you need clients to have internet browsing access, you'll need to configure forwarders on your DC's DNS to point to your ISP's DNS servers (check with them to see if recursion should be enabled or disabled in this configuration). These errors are 100% DNS resolution errors, so either your clients and DC have public DNS servers in their configuration, or your AD DNS is misconfigured and missing entries.

This is pretty well documented in the Vista WAIK, in the User's guide, under the section entitled "Add Content to $OEM$ folders". Basically, $oem$ needs to be in the sources folder, along with an autounattend.xml file with the UseConfigurationSet tag set to true: <UseConfigurationSet>true</UseConfigurationSet> Going forward, I strongly recommend downloading the WAIK and reading the help files. You will need them to wrap your mind around the new unattend.

What HAL does it show in the answer file? If you don't get image selection prompts, it's either permissions or an incorrect HAL setting in the .sif file of the images. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/289638

You have done it correctly, from what I gather - the proper way to set things up is to point all internal machines at your internal DNS server only, and configure forwarding on your DNS server to your ISP's DNS servers. This is the way it should be configured.

Check the following registry values to make sure they're BOTH set to 1: Key: HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Attachments Value: ScanWithAntiVirus Data: 1 Key: HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Attachments Value: ScanWithAntiVirus Data: 1 If either are set to 2, this can happen...

The problem is with rights to the machine - it's actually usually not the firewall or the A/V that stops functioning or doesn't work, but the COM objects for the service either don't get installed properly or get installed, but your user account doesn't have enough rights to run the application. I believe this very question has been asked before here, and disabling UAC and reinstalling fixed it (but disabling UAC really isn't a fix in my book, but to each his/her own). I think in February, after Vista is officially released to the public, you'll find more help from McAfee on their products running on Vista.

Have you unplugged the cable modem for a few minutes? Those devices (Motorolas) typically to ARP caching to speed up the initial device connection, and this can cause problems when switching attached NICs. Power down the cable modem for a few, then turn it back on and attach it to the new machine - it should work.

Vista, both x86 and x64, testing on Ultimate, Business, Enterprise, and Home Premium, none exhibiting either of the problems you've listed. Does it do this on a *clean* install, before you add software? I'm unable to repro this on any build that I've tested it on (I gave up after testing on Home Premium).

Or it could be that over 50% of support incidents are generated due to buggy/bad/misbehaving drivers, and that's a large support cost (no, we make no money on support - it's a cost center by far) that can be reduced by trying to eliminate the biggest supportability problem? It's not like we're out to "get" everyone when we make a change, guys.

The fastest way to an admin's heart is to do some of his or her repetitive or dirty work for them..

BDD is Business Desktop Deployment, and it's more of a methodology than a tool - it's a methodology or set of scenarios that tell you how to use the other tools (like the WAIK) to create business-class rollouts of products like Vista and Office.

scr1.scr is not a built-in screen saver for any version of Windows. If it's crashing, perhaps getting a dump of it crashing would help via the User Mode Process Dumper.

Make sure you're also adding them to both the riprep image and the flat file image it was built from, otherwise it may not work.

2003 does include Greek language support in regional options, but you'll likely need the Greek MUI pack to get full Greek support (well, close to full support) in the OS as you have in XP. Contact your organization's TAM to get the Greek MUI from Microsoft.

If anything calls iexplore.exe, then yes, it'll break them. You will lose some shell functionality too, for users affected by the policy (namely browsing from windows explorer), but you should test you users' workload on a machine with the policy enabled to see if your users can still function. One other thing you could do is to lock down IE via group policy so no users can change settings, and point the proxy to a server on your network that simply serves up a "please use firefox page", with a link to the firefox executable on disk.

If you have 768MB of RAM and are running out, you should run a perfmon and monitor all process objects on the machinne to see which process (or processes) use the most amount of virtual and private bytes, amongst other things. Otherwise, we're just guessing.

Do not dual-post. Please stick to posting topics in one section, and if you feel that you've posted in the wrong section PM the mod of that section to move it. From the forum rules:

That's good news If you want help with application installs, you probably want to post those questions in the Application Installs section of the boards.

Well, considering that an application knows nothing about RAM (unless it's actually doing a BIOS check for the amount available, as in a WMI script or burn-in utility), that seems rather odd. You might want to consider running perfmon, adding all of the process counters, to see if any one particular counter is using large amounts of private bytes or virtual bytes.

That's only for installs using sysprep (hence factory mode). It won't do a thing during initial windows setup.

I believe nLite can do all of what you are looking for. Have a look on the nLite section of the boards, this has been discussed many times there.

If you wish to have a second directory (but keep all servers in the first), consider ADAM on 2K3.