IcemanND

startup scripts, loaded by group policies, check out gpedit.msc for local policies. Or the group policy management tool for domain policies.

Just add them with sysprep. don't add them with nlite or the driverpacks first. looks right. how do u know which are "standard windows ones"? the standard ones are added when you use either the -bmsd switch, or add the buildmassstorage section in sysprep.inf and tell it to build it under the sysprep section.

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I do one of three things depending upon who I'm working for. 1. Driverpacks.net (for boot devices I find out which they have and only add those and the standard windows ones, I don't use the entire MSD pack for this.) 2. Collect the drivers and make my own repository 3. One of my clients made my life easy and paid for the Universal imaging Utility.

Your GPO's should be running at startup. I have seen three things cause the failure of GPO's to be processed before logon. 1. there is a bug with some early gigabit nics that will report that they are connected and active to the OS before they are, turning off DHCPMediaSense on these cards solve that. HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters\DisableDHCPMediaSense=1 2. Your GPO's is not set to wait for the network (or your network card for some reason is not yet fully installed, highly unusual) 3. depending upon your AD configuration you mad need to turn on the "user group policy loopback processing" in your GPO, usually only needed for User policies not computer policies. Another option would be to autologon once and run gpupdate from runonce and then reboot.

what is the command you are using to mount the image?

if the file will always reside somewhere within \WebApp on some hard drive, I would perform a search of that directory on each machine for the desired file. First search the drive for the webapp folder and if it exists the search that folder structure for your desired file. You can do one of two things to rename the file either use the FileSystemObject.MoveFile to move it within the same directory but to a different name, or CopyFile to a new name and then overwrite the old file with the new.

Not quite so easy, and a frequent topic here. Look for: hardware independent image or: universal image The HAL can be changed, and depending upon your target hardware the ability for what you need may already exist in sysprep. If you have to support pre-hyperthreaded processors you will need something to change the HAL, if everything is hyperthreaded or newer all you need is sysprep. (with a few exceptions for laptop processors)

second that. most users have acrobat reader on their machines already from either previous need or the OEM loading it on the machine at the factory.

the settings you are trying to use by the looks of it are for running the installation from a RIS. Boot from a PE environment then partition the drive as desired and kick off the installation from there, all of which can be scripted silently.

Why not use the legal caption info which is a built in function of Windows, can be applied to the local policy or through group policy. You can't put you company logo on it but you can put your legal info in.

what is the actual filename? Is it going to be the same on every machine and will there be only one of them? If the folder is unique from machine to machine your choices would be to search the machine for the filename though you may find more than one, then what will you do. Or place a known file or registry setting on each machine with path to the file. Which route do you want to go, or is there another way you could find the desired file. WHat do you have so far.

the script should be running from PE after you put your image on the machine. Example sequence: 1. boot from PE 2. Deploy image to machine from PE, if possible do next step without a reboot. 3. Run script to determine desired system HAL and modify now deployed OS accordingly. 4. reboot system. The issue usually is accessing the deployed os without first rebooting the system. There were various steps you had to go through with earlier versions of Ghost (prior to Solutions Suite 2), You can use WIM files and WinPE2 but I'm not sure if the HAL is detected the same way in PE2 since it is based on Vista and it needs a minimum of 384mb of memory to run diskpart to partition the drive before deploying the image.

First you can narrow your search dramatically if you add the rest of your requirements to you query at newegg. http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList....e=1&bop=And Second I've used Macally and Bytecc enclosures without issue. Though most of my 3.5 "external drives now were bought fully assembled.

actually this is not the "ultimate" it only writes zeros to every sector. The best way would be to write zeros then ones, then a random pattern to the entire drive. Which by the way is what DBAN will do. multiple times if desired.

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there are numerous client server applications to do this. Search for 'xp diskless terminal' and you will find numerous results. Or terminal server.

:sigh: Doesn't anyone search anymore. "universal image" "hardware independent image"

only thing i can remember right now is giving a machine back to a user without the sata cable, not forgetting to hook it up, not putting it in at all left it on my bench. To make matters worse they didn't turn the machine on for 2 weeks and by then I had used it in another machine and it was gone. Had a student worker working putting a system back together for me and he plugged the AT power connectors in and was off by one pin. Good thing it needed a motherboard before we started.

any tweaks to the installation? What network card? What is in your answer file?

or you can download them from the chip manufacturers. otherwise when you run them on a machine they unpack to a folder on the machine then take that folder and add it to your install as needed.b

Search for multihead video cards. http://www.multiplemonitors.org/Pages%20-%...eo%20cards.html

You are absolutely correct, if you are not supporting OLD hardware, pre HT processor then you would not run into the HAL issues. If only that were the case where I work. Every machine you have listed that you have tested is an ACPI UNI or ACPI Multi processor HAL. Try putting it on a Dell GX400 or earlier machine (except the GX300, Dells attempt a a dual processor machine) and unless you upgrade the BIOS and change a setting in it it will likely puke or run like crap.

It seems to me that is what wpeinit was supposed to do.. try adding a "start /wait" in front of it and see what happens.

if you run just ipconfig does it list any adapters? If not installed the appropriate drivers, if it does verify that you have a good network connection from a full windwos OS.