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  1. I would not have a workgroup you need to have a domain. 2 windows 2003 servers 4 vm client's XP SP2 (that be nice for the dcom issues) now remember that windows 2003 is locked down as default IE:- you need to change the permissions to run rpc, msdtc and w32 time. get yourself a CBT that covers the subjects of the MCSA and then you can progress from there. you need to throw yourself into the deep end my friend
  2. update you can span wim files accross cd the script is included in th WAIK in a folder called samples named createspannedshares.cmd I have not read thru the script yet as I need my glasses and a gang of losers decided to beat me up and nick my specs! but it looks hopefull so with geezery HTA it run sweet. If anyone gets chance to look at the batch file that be great. I knew I should of never of left my beloved computer and actually go out to meet people.
  3. Ok did a test today and it failed. doing some research I saw this by the makers of "son of cab" wim ... Support Media (Disc) Spanning Even in the early days of WIM, when we could fit an image on a single CD, we knew that we had to support multiple pieces of media. Even if we shipped Windows on one CD, once users added applications, service packs, and so on, their images would likely grow beyond the size of a single CD or DVD. So we had to let them span across multiple pieces of media for their own installation and recovery solutions. so it must work. I will investigate more and post back here
  4. All you need is vmware workstation. I doubt that you have paid for the others as they are expensive and really for the enterprise. Your need lots of memory. Start with a couple of DC's for your FSMO's and a couple of member servers, 2 or so clients. depending on what you want to do your need to set your containers and OU's up, group policy, SMS etc. you may need DFS Shares for application installs and AV if you want to do it this way every domain is set up differently depending on customer and hardware issues If I were you I would check out the MCSA study guide by Trainsignal they have their lab set up in virtuals so that you can watch and mirror what they do thus getting a head start on skills required. you can fool the esx kernal into thinking that sata disk are supported also if your sata controller card uses a scsi based driver it will work. but scsi is the only support type.
  5. @iceman Yeah I have the updatedrivers set to yes I will add the -pnp into my sysprep and test it. I got 25 different models running just fine. I need to sort this out as a temp solution untill I have finished the BDD 2005 and SMS OSD FP and then all i do for drivers is a wmi call to the model from the bios and then update the drivers in my wim automatically works nice but maybe can work better with some of the great tools in this forum.
  6. @iceman I have tried via Unatted and sysprep which I know just updates the reg device path as you mentioned. Driver signing is off via the sysprep.inf I have taken out oempnpdrvierspath in sysprep as I now use sysprep driver scanning (top tool) This does the following.... flush data to disks delets old driver caches creates driver paths for devicepath reg value close smb connections Terminate'sunneeded processes Stop's unnessary services Remove's cached OEM drivers clear event logs flush data to disks and then finally start sysprep -reseal -mini -quiet I dont use -pnp as I was told that this adds additional time to boot. As I do not fully inderstand the -pnp and the way these drivers behave I Thought I post in this topic, I dont however want to to be flamed to death for hijacking someone's post if its not related I start a new one. Like I said before all my hardware works fine except the NC6400 (its a laptop by the way) its knows the name of the device and the reg value is correct, driversiging is set to ignore however up pops the prompt box I click find automacitally and then it loads up fine. Some driver's require the "continue anyway" click and others don't (I am I right in thinking that those that require "continue anyway" dont have a cat file) Its a bit strange as I dont fully understand the whole in depth preocess
  7. Ok started testing my images.wim is 986mb anw when i split it into chunks of 150 the 7 parts add up to 983mb maybe this is just meta data info but 3mb worth? tried a different size split into 500mb chunks two swm files total of 983mb again 3mb difference strange. going to try and burn a winpe disc with no HTA and load the swm file manually I will try both sizes.
  8. I actually have split my wim into smaller chunks to cater for the winpe on the cd about 100mb so its in 250mb chunks. But I still have not got this working. mmm looking at this "After the split you will then "burn" each of the fragments to individual media. " it would suggest that you can only place one swn file on cd" My idea you see is to have your nice hta start up pn my winpe 2 cd and the engineer select the image he requires. All my images then can be on a two cd set. looks like some more testing to do. I do not have the option of network install as i have 600+ sites and 10mb hubs at most of them and then i got the third party support replaceing boxes I wanted to make it a simple as possiable as in just click on the image they require.
  9. Hi, Has any one been able to split a wim that has appended images onto cds? I have tried splitting wims follow the m$ guide with no success at the moment. If anyone has split an appended wim let me know. I would like to use geezery HTA gui booting into winpe 2 using the cd method and then run the split wim across two cds.
  10. forgive me for being a bit thick but I am I right in thinking that.... if windows starts up and it knows the device name but does not know the path to the Device driver then all you need to do is run -pnp? I have a situation were most of my drivers load on sysprep but some pop up asking for the location I then click find automacticallly and then it loads fine sometimes I have to click continue anyways when no cat file exists. if this is totally unrelated I start a different post.
  11. I have had this same problem do you happen to have have ^.pnf and infcache.1 files where these drivers are? I found a great tool that can be run at sysprep or build time and will scan a directory fo your choice this then apends the information to the reg path HKLM\Software\microsft\windows\currentversion\devicepath thsi gets past the 4096 limint in winnt.sif or sysprep.inf. Great tool flushes out old Driver Cache files using tools from sysinternals. SysPrep Driver Scanner I got most of the HP range working using this method about 10 different hardware versions I do however have the same problem as yourself with the NC6400 laptop some drivers are in my image allready so I am not sure why this is not working I may have to call -pnp from sysprep or run it manually as metioned in a previous post. I will PM you if I get to the bottom of it and will update my image to include all the drivers and do a test.
  12. looks very intresting many Thanks!
  13. Why not just burn of a CD and then insert your UFD nad then follow your instructions to format etc...?
  14. next time I finish reading thru your code and not just jump in at the deep end sorry for that.
  15. Very Nice! If I wanted append images within images will this still have the same effect? I am a bit of a vbs noob and still going thru it. It be nice to have all my image options from the xml file (again I have to research weather you can get /info from appeded images) then select the one I require and off it goes with the right append number. I would then look to split this across two cds and deploy to our engineers as a backup for no network, be great for support.
  16. Hi, I have tried to get up to speed an Wise Studio and can just about get around. I am trying to do a setupcature with a stupid 16 Bit app thats about 6MB or so. I have gone thru the guide on how to do a capture. but when I create the package at the end I always get an error when I test the package for real. I am doing the captures in clean Virtual machines (Is it best to use phyiscal?) If anyone can help I be much appreciated.
  17. Hi guys, I am doing an unattended install of xp sp1 using the $oem$ folder dir and this copies all my drivers over to the %systemdrive% now when I finished I checked the devicepath reg entry to make sure it was updated by the oempnpdriverspath which it did fine. Now I have two more models to add to my universal image...so I get the drivers, place them in the right dirs within the drivers folder and run a sysprep with the new locations added into my oempnpdriverspath. After I capture the image and go to the test phase it does not load my drivers it allways prompts me at first logon (I have driversigning to ignore and have update drivers to yes). I check my devicepath and the new entries are not updated within the reg key? I think I read somewhere that you cant append to this key once its been updated so I deleted it and tried another test which could not then load any of my new drivers. Is there some sort of caching going on? I have %systemroot%inf in the devicepath on a clean vmware build is this right? I also have a inf folder within the windows folder with loads of inf's,pnf's and sys's files are they meant to be there? I did a new build using the BDD 2.5 and I dont have the inf folder or %systemroot%inf entries what am I missing?
  18. first off get BDD2007 and the Windows WAIK you can do this quite easy once you have read the docs. :-) you can even put it all on a USB stick and install from it depending how big your image is.
  19. Nice this should help some people out. What about adding an option for images to be on a USB Drive weather they ghost or wim. This will cope with situations where you have no network conectivity an engineer could boot an UFD and load the image by USB disc can't beleive 18 views and not one thanks!
  20. @Jazkal I keep you informed on what works and doesn't on the HP toolkit and winpe 2.0 I creating an offline dvd like the BDD SMS version so I test it with that. I have not been able to make "sysmgmt service" run so I can't use the tools as it requires this service to run (But not 100% sure) @chrislynch Who ever did the documetation for the SSSTK needs a bit of a slap it allways seamed 90% complete saying that it works fine. I ve nearly solved the stupid restart after the diskpart section. Is there any chance where I can test betas etc? I am part of a large IT Org. Thanks for the response
  21. here is a link... dell system restore you can update the image if you wanted to.
  22. @Jazkal have you got the health driver loading with the DL380 G5? I am trying to use winpe 2 for DL360 G5, ML350 G5 and the above but I can't get the HP tools to run properly ie conrep, and the acubin. I had to go back to the winpe 2005 with wims but to use winpe 2 would be nice. I was told that HP would not bother with winpe 2.0 until longhorn comes out, which is silly as its obvious that m$ are pushing for winpe 2. :-(
  23. Alan you dont have to We have a SQL database where the computer starts up and the Customsettings.ini file checks the type of machine.. Desktop,laptop and Server then jumps to the right part for the tyoe of hardware then dynamically updates the the Sysprep and registry with the info, this even names my machine and updates the the bios with the asset tag.. This then writes it back to the BDD database which I export into our cost model database making it all ITIL Complinet. most of the SQL tables and store procedures are allready in the database. The customsettings.ini is used with the Zerotouch.vbs script to pick out whatever you want.. example would be I have a widescreen laptop so i want to set the wallpaper to widescreen but keep the desktops normal etc...
  24. You may want to check this post out as well same problems... http://www.msfn.org/board/lofiversion/index.php/t87715.html
  25. How does the HTA act within "Windows Vista"?
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