Tripredacus

Typically, using the chipset drivers will work, regardless of the board. So use the Intel drivers for your chipset, and repeat for whoever makes the rest of your components. Also if you are using XP or Vista, try looking at DriverPacks.net. It has some obscure stuff. There are at least 5 downloads and only video and audio are very large. I use them for things I can't figure out for the most part.

I have nothing to add, except that I doubt the computer manufacturer, or hardware, has anything to do with it. I personally use separate XMLs for the different versions. I didn't make those XMLs so I don't know if there are any differences. Perhaps you check the differences between that and Ultimate? I know some things are not the same, like some GPOs for example or (in some versions) GPOs altogether. I don't get to install Home Premium .... Oh when you said HP, did you mean "Home Premium" or "Hewlett Packard?" anyways, Home Premium is rare for me, its usually Home Basic or Business for the most part.

Take a look at this section: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showforum=92

Go into the server properties and uncheck the box to use an unattend file. Alternatively, you can use a base unattend file for the server (WDSClientUnattend) and attach a separate unattend file to the install image. For reference: Here is my WDSClientUnattend.xml http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=134633 Here is my unattend.xml (attached to the install image) http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?s=&amp...st&p=846753 NOTE: the second link, the unattend is invalid and did not work. I have a working version now.

Just wondering. Why do you have the DHCP lease time set so short? This causes a lot of unneeded broadcasting. When 50% of the lease time has passed, the client will attempt to renew the lease with the original DHCP server. And any time the client boots and the lease is 50% or more passed, the client will attempt to renew the lease... When I worked OPs at an ISP, we used this. The longest an interface should be active on that specific network (depending on certain conditions) would be 1 hour.

You can also consider scripting a program to do this. One example would be AutoIT. Not sure if KIX can do that. You'd just have to make sure that you move the file to another folder after printing. You wouldn't want to delete it, because if the printer was out of paper you'd be hosed.

If this is done, you can't make the recovery media from the Start Menu anymore. But he should be able to from the partition itself.

I only install Vista, the drivers and OfficeReady.

Useful posts are useful.

That's ok. You should post in the nLite forum with your question.

You can't resell demo licenses, so the answer is no. You are best to go through a reseller to buy your licenses.

Concerning a name change, please post here: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showforum=23

Also, make sure you are running the commands from the PE Tools Command Prompt, or else the PATHs will be wrong. Or else you can just add the AIK folder to your PATH variable as well.

Thanks. Also to be accurate, one was SMC but all the rest were made by TrendNet. Right now we get to determine which is the better route for us, building a separate server and network to handle these clients, or to upgrade the switches. Both would be nice but we'll see what happens.

One of these crazy looking things is sitting in our warehouse. Its still in the box and I guess it was ordered as a part, so I won't get to actually see it. From only looking at the box, it looks like a car engine! http://www.antec.com/Believe_it/product.php?id=NzA0

It's that time of year again!

I have 2 MS Live IDs. One is for OCE/Connect/Moo and the other is for certifications. I am told by my TAM that I can associate the two accounts in Live, but I can't figure out where to do that. Does anyone know how to associate Live IDs?

Hmmm... I will have to bring that up then. I only manage the Domain Controller, I didn't set it up like that. Or at least, I manage the roles, not the config. Another guy does that. Is it possible that this can cause things like this? Another recent development. The bank of clients with the "gigabit" nics also started a new behaviour. After imaging was complete, they all reported hal.dll errors on reboot, which means the Image didn't actually complete. Temporarily, I had them switch to using my test server (unclesocks) which can only handle 4 clients at a time. I haven't moved that fast (damage control) in a while. It sucked because Unclesocks is used as a dev server, so it didn't have the right PE version (for production) set up on it. It took me about 20 minutes to copy the image over and get the PE all set up, but it seems it is moving a little better now. And if you know, Unclesocks isn't on the production network, so I had to do some copypasta to get the image over there. EDIT: Also, regarding the teaming issue and the wrong switches. Can someone post some docs or whitepapers about this requirement? I am going to have to prove it to the guy in order to get it either "unteamed" or get management to upgrade the switches.

I'm not surprised. I listen to a lot of different stuff. Most is leftover from when I was in the music business. This, however, isn't: Iron Butterfly - My Mirage

Have you been saving things into the recovery partition? Typically, the recovery partition should only be big enough to fit the recovery files, so its normal for it to have very little space. It is annoying if Windows is giving you the low disk space message tho. I don't understand why HP doesn't hide the partition, since you can make the recovery media from booting into the partition anyways. Also, make sure Windows isn't trying to use that drive to put the virtual memory into it.

OK I have a little update, and a question because the behaviour on the network seems to have some adverse affects on the domain controller. Now that all switches are updated to gigabit, there is still a problem. Any clients with the D945GCLF board in them, even tho the spec for the onboard nic says 10/100/1000, they will only run at 100 max. I can tell this because the switch indicates orange (100) lights for those ports instead of green (gigabit). After prolonged use of these machines on the network for imaging, say 2-3 days, one of the other segments loses connectivity. The main switch that the Server connects to indicates an interesting blink pattern for that particular segment. Something like: 5 blinks, then lights out for 2 seconds, then repeat x infinity. At this point, that particular segment loses DHCP services, and connectivity to the Domain Controller. However, if any clients on that segment (its called Server Island) already have an IP address, they can still access the file server, but not the domain controller. After their leases expire (DHCP is set for 3 hour lease time) those clients then lose all connectivity with the network. Then after a period of time, the second segment (called Gilligan's Island) will go through this process as well, and eventually the entire network loses connectivity. Neither of the servers indicate any errors in the Event Viewer, except the Domain Controller which only has Kerberos warnings, which I ignore because Kerberos auth is not used. Also, the DHCP log has no errors or warnings either, no NACKs, only lease cleanups, and expiry messages. Here's the strange part. If I reset the main switch (or any of the switches on any affected Islands) they still do not regain connectivity. The only way to regain connectivity is to reset the main switch and reboot the Domain Controller. Another strange this discovered early on is that if you reset the main switch, DHCP will not function (there will be no errors reported either) until you reboot the server. It will show no link issues either. So it is possible that the presence of these clients running at 100 cause enough of a lag time so that the Server loses communication with the main switch for a split second, but this is enough time for it to stop being able to provide DHCP? Also when these 10/100 clients are active, the rest of the network slows down incredibly, even to a standstill. Any ideas about this behaviour?

First I would recommend you uninstall one of your antivirus programs. It is not wise to use two. You have listed Avast and Prevx! Also, run a scan for Malware, not sure about compatibility with your locale settings, but take a look here: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=119786

Where did you get this download from? Try installing the WAIK instead and use it's DISKPART http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details...a5-5b50c657de08

Good luck and try not to invoke the swear filter anymore.

That term makes me shudder every time someone refers to it. Too bad I'll have to use it for the next three years of university... I remember those classes well too. Not sure if I was fond of it. Fortunately it gets very easy once you are in school, but I can't remember most of it anymore. Its been too long. It sucks for me because when I was in college, the program was in a transition period. All courses were geared for mainframe programming, and I remember we were supposed to take two semesters about UARTS. Then they dropped the second semester course and I was so disappointed.