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Well when we use Ghost, its not coming from the 2008 server. The host for Ghost is 2003. So Ghost "Multicast" is emulated, and 2003 doesn't do multicast. The end result is that 2003 Unicasts the image to all interfaces, which is why the entire network slows down. I summed it up today in discussion, one of my underlings said "i'll wait until later to run this Ghost because I don't want to slow down the network" and I responded no go ahead, the more it gets slow and breaks, maybe we'll get lucky and management will open the wallet for the right hardware for us.

I'm not too certain about this. Was this language pack installed with the OS originally or added later? The only way I've ever installed a language pack was as an Office add-on and it appeared in Add/Remove Programs. I never tried to remove one before and also never changed my default locale, only had it installed to see the appropriate characters for Japanese, Korean, Chinese and Arabic. Not that it matters, I can't read any of those languages.

Hey, how come Zxian... Xzian whatever gets a special day on the MSFN calendar? Who's in charge of that, Dencorso needs a special day too.

you should try copype.cmd without using call. What error do you get with oscdimg?

I have resolved this problem as well! However I now need to automate the process. Here's how it went... I started out just imaging a machine and putting the AUTOUNATTEND.XML file in a folder, and then run recovery. It always ignored it. After about a week of head scratching, I finally decided to do a little research. Google and MS Social were basically dead ends, likely because I was approaching it from a different angle as those guys and the OP here. I then did a couple of things: 1. I mounted the winre.wim from my workstation with DISM. 2. I looked at the WINPESHL.INI and found it uses RECENV.EXE as the shell. 3. I opened RECENV.EXE in a string viewer 4. I saw that it looks for x:\unattend.xml, there is no XML file in the offline image. 5. I boot a PC to WinRE and open command prompt. Sure enough, the XML file is there. 6. I replaced the file with my custom one and ran recovery. It worked! However I used Notepad that is in WinRE (and WinPE) to replace the file, but that is not a good automated way of doing it! These next steps, I have not tried them yet, I will tomorrow... First thing you want to look at is this link: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd744576%28WS.10%29.aspx What we can do here is use FactoryRecoveryTool to reinstall the image for us. You will need to use the info from the unattend.xml that RECENV created when you got there, because it uses pathing and such. Then we can just call setup as such: X:\SOURCES\SETUP.EXE /UNATTEND:X:\SOURCES\UNATTEND.XML So if we use the /UNATTEND switch, you can put your unattend file anywhere you want and name it anything you want to. If you look in the WinRE.WIM you will find 2 setup.exe, one in Sources and one in the root of X. If you look at the manifests in a program like ResHack, you will see that the one in Sources is the one that installs Windows and not the other one. Alternatively, you can use FactoryRecoveryTool to run any app instead of running Setup. Man, I was so happy I got this to work!

I see you opened your XML file in IE and copypasta it into your post. We can't use this code very well, its better to attach your XML to your post (edit out your product key first). Does your XML validate in WSIM?

Also don't forget to change your "About" page, it still has the WordPress template wording in it.

Yeah I left the "loop" part out as I wasn't sure how to word it politely... We still are just using the old switches, except now the plan has been upgraded to getting managed switches as well as patch panels. Yes we just have Cat6 running through the ceiling and under tables. We do not need VLAN or anything crazy. This network has is isolated, we only want to be able to have switches that allow 100Mbps clients to run at 100 and the gigabit to run at gigabit at the same time. Currently, if a 100Mbps client is running (which it will if we use DOS Ghost client) the entire LAN drops to 100! Then what happens is that the gigabit clients end up timing out and the server will eventually cease to see that particular segment or the entire network. This wouldn't be such a big issue if we didn't have to use Ghost, but we still must use it to image XP machines with HD based recovery, since Imagex can't do it. And all the DOS NDIS drivers for Ghost run gigabit NICs at 100. Also, some onboard NICs (not Intel, but moreso Broadcom, RTL, etc) do not run at gigabit speed unless Windows is installed. So for example, a gigabit NIC will run at 100 during PXE or will if its just sitting in the BIOS or any pre-OS installed state, it will report to the switch its 100, make the light orange, then put Windows on it, install the driver and the light turns green/gigabit. Really annoying.

I hope these words don't make you famous!

The issue has been resolved. We replaced one end. Also found out that we only get 1% download speed when not teaming the NICs. Also the Team is for failover only, no aggregation.

XPH? XP Home?

Do not post technical topics in General Discussion.

No, I'm talking about installing Nero9 without a product key. The activation portion (where you manually type in the key) after install (NeroSmartStart.exe) is not compatible with Windows 7 and crashes after you type in the key and click the next button. A normal install where you either choose to put the product key in your cmdline, or manually run it off the CD works fine in Windows 7.

Ooops it looks like a Windows 7 unattend? I can move this for you if so. For windows 7, you can use this as example: <settings pass="oobeSystem"> <component name="Microsoft-Windows-International-Core" processorArchitecture="x86" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="neutral" versionScope="nonSxS" xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"> <InputLocale>0409:00000409</InputLocale> <UILanguage>en-us</UILanguage> <SystemLocale>en-us</SystemLocale> <UserLocale>en-us</UserLocale> </component> </settings> And in the windowsPE pass, Microsoft-Windows-Setup component: <UserData> <AcceptEula>true</AcceptEula> <FullName>EndUserName</FullName> <Organization>Fabrikam</Organization> <ProductKey> <Key>12345-12345-12345-12345-12345</Key> <WillShowUI>Never</WillShowUI> </ProductKey> </UserData> If you need to specify a different key for activation, use Microsoft-Windows-Shell-Setup in the Specialize pass.

That's like the Quad Stacker at Burger King. Scary thing.

Debating this, so move to XP for now, although somebody will probably come in here and post some crazy technical stuff.

I see there is a difference now. In the old version the profile had the wrong posts. Thanks for pointing that out.

The first thing I do is look at the most recent posts for people to ban... jk You can find your most recent posts here: http://www.msfn.org/board/get-member-post-m254708.html And most recent topics here: http://www.msfn.org/board/get-member-topics-m254708.html These are accessible by accessing your profile: http://www.msfn.org/board/member-phenomic-m254708.html

You may be able to extrapolate a method from this thread: http://www.msfn.org/board/imagex-t138048.html

Won't WPEUTIL SHUTDOWN command work for you? Just sent to ComSpec to that command and it will shutdown. I use it in my scripts, that and WPEUTIL REBOOT if needed.

Replacing the switch didn't make a difference. I thought that too. We're having someone look at it in the morning, hopefully its just something I overlooked.

Have you looked at this topic? http://www.msfn.org/board/support-wifi-t141137.html

Oof it really kicked the bucket today. It probably happened over the weekend or so. One of the switches was not communicating with the server at all, but the other switch was OK. I rebooted it and nothing, so then connected the Wind to the line and it worked. To think maybe the switch was bad, I swapped it out. Then the new switch wasn't working either. So of course we try another network cable and then that switch is up again! Easy fix right? Well not unless you try to do something with it, which then caused the entire network to drop! So I disconnected the new wire and the other switch magically starts working. So something happened over the weekend that caused part of the network to fail. Also very interesting (via testing) I found that if both switches were connected (when the network failed or ran very slow) the Team broke! If I only have 1 switch connected, the team does not break. Yes I still make the case to get some managed switches, hopefully this will happen soon. However, what can cause the team to break like this?

It also counts posts you make in the Welcome forum on your profile, but not on your posts. So having one extra post is normal on your profile. People like me and Dencorso have a lot more posts on our profile page than you see on any of our posts because we welcome new users a lot.

If the install for Dreamweaver CS3 has unattend switches (so you can unattend install it from command prompt or run box) just use RunWait in your script. That way you don't have to rely on AutoIT to be able to click all the correct buttons for you.