I received this error but the image was captured. Some of my associates stated they were getting errors when using the methods I came up with and I had never seen this in the past. Any ideas as to what causes this error?
Joseph N. Sunderman | IT Professional
Hi there,
I have 2 WDS servers on a campus, 1 in building 31 and another one in building 13 to facilitate PXE boot clients imaging. As of now, each WDS has their own deployment share on MDT 2013. I am trying to keep both WDS servers running only for PXE boot but pointing to only 1 single deployment share on MDT 2013. Please is this possible? if yes, provide me some instruction. If not, please please explain or provide me documentation.
Thanks much!
If what i am trying to do is not possible or recommended, then i can either keep both servers and deployment shares as is OR use 1 WDS and deployment share for both buildings. What would i have to do to direct all clients in building 31 and 13 via DHCP to this single WDS?
Hi
I'm trying to install a salt-minion as part of an MDT deployment (MDT 2012 R1). Part of the installation is to set the name of the Salt minion, which I would like to be the FQDN of the machine.
I can run a silent installation via a manual command line:
Salt-Minion-2014.1.11-win32-Setup.exe /S /master=salt /minion-name="%COMPUTERNAME%.%USERDNSDOMAIN%"
However, when I put this command line into the Quiet Install Command field of the application task in MDT, it does not correctly install. I find that the COMPUTERNAME environment variable has expanded correctly, but USERDNSDOMAIN has not. So the Salt minion will have a name like "WKS-001.%USERDNSDOMAIN%".
In the task sequence, the "Install Applications" step appears after "Recover from Domain", so I would expect that the computer has joined the domain, so USERDNSDOMAIN would be available.
I can work around this problem by hardcoding the domain name in the silent install command as "%COMPUTERNAME%.myorg.local", but this isn't ideal.
Is it possible to retrieve the domain name in an application installation task?
Alternatively, The domain name has also been set in customsettings.ini as JoinDomain=myorg.local. Is it possible to inject this variable into the application installation task?
I am trying to deploy captured image of windows 8.1 using MDT. After deployment i am getting these following errors. However the new deployed operating system works fine and it also has all the installed applications which i have captured. Please tell me why i am getting these errors and how can i remove these errors.
Hi, Folks,
Here are my circumstances:
Server OS: Windows 2012 R2 Standard
MDT Version: 2013
Client OS to build/capture/deploy: Windows 8.1 Enterprise
Reference Machine: VMWare virtual machine
Target Machine: Microsoft Surface Pro 3
This is basically a new server build and a new MDT setup. I have recreated the deployment share entirely to try to fix this problem.
Every single time I boot the VM from the litetouch.iso, after the bootstrap loads and gathers some settings, I get "A connection to the deployment share (\\computername\deploymentshare$) could not be made. Connection OK. Possible Cause: invalid credentials."
If I press F8, I can:
a) Get a valid IP address via ipconfig
b) Ping the deployment server
c) Net use to the deployment share using the exact credentials supplied in bootstrap.ini
To try to resolve this I have:
a) Entered the FQDN of the deployment share in bootstrap.ini
b) Duplicated the UserID, UserDomain, and UserPassword in both customsettings.ini and bootstrap.ini
c) Entered the correct TimeZone and TimeZoneName in customsettings.ini
d) Added the VMWare NIC drivers to the litetouch boot images
e) Checked and double checked the credentials, security permissions, and share permissions on the deployment share
And, yes, after each and every modification, I
a) Update the deployment share
b) Copy the new .iso to the virtual machine
c) Add the updated boot images to WDS
Some posts talk about
a) cleaning the disk with diskpart (but it is a brand new VM, never used or even booted),
b) synchronizing date and time settings (which I have tried without success, I can confirm that the time is not synchronized but the date is, so I try to set the time as close as possible to the server time but how close does it have to be? Hasn't helped anyway)
Does anyone have any ideas?
How can I make the problem more visible or are there any logs I can consult for details?
Thank you anyone and everyone!
pci\ven_8086&dev_153a&subsys_05be1028&rev_04
can some one help me pls..thank you so much..
Hi,
For the automation of the reference VMs I want to add a task to run the ZTIWipeDisk.wsf script after the image capture is complete. This is because the creation of VMs is too "complicated" in this particular customer environment, so I want to wipe the disk to avoid the “Press any key to boot from CD or DVD….” message from derailing the automation for reference image builds/updates.
I've added WipeDisk=TRUE in the customsettings.ini added a task at the end to runZTIWipeDisk.wsf, but it doesn't run, nor does anything get logged, so not sure if it's possible to achieve.
Has anyone tried this before?
Cheers,
Jeremy
Jeremy Saunders
Hi we are looking at using MDT to deploy to around 1000s machines across the school and have been tasked with testing it. I have got our image captured and deploy-able but not quite how we need it yet.
We want to be able to deploy the image to a system that currently as windows installed but also format the drive in the process. I have setup a domain account that maps the deployment share and runs the vbs script. That all works fine the machine reboots in to the WIN PE formats the drive and then errors out saying no drive to install to check drivers.
The other way we want to install is by network boot I cant test this yet. To get round it I have uploaded the boot wim on to a usb stick. When I boot from that the task runs through start to finish no issue. Formats the drive installs runs through and I end up with a fully installed machine ready for naming and domain joining.
I can't understand why when they both run the exact same task with both boot wim being exactly the same that one works and one doesn't.
Any advice much apprenticed Andrew Hoy
Hello,
I would like to setup some different variables DriverGroup that have conditions between them, specially between knowed and unknowed machines.
Example:
DriverGroup001=7\%MAKE%\%MODEL% (YES or NO) if no -> next
DriverGroup001=7\LENOVO\%PRODUCTVERSION% (YES or NO) if no -> next
DriverGroup001=7\%ARCHITECTURE%\generic (YES or NO)
In fact, something like a "if - else- elseif"
I'm not sure how to add a function like that in MDT.
Do I need to add DriverApplied=NO in customsettings.ini and then how do I use that inside my task sequence.
Thanks
This post is a how-to on installing 2008 R2 on UEFI systems using GPT disk as this isn't documented anywhere correctly when using MDT 2010 with Update 1. How-to install 2008 R2 on UEFI systems using MBR disk will be posted at the end which will be a copy and paste of someone else's workaround.
Before following the How-To's below, ensure that both of these KB articles have been followed first!
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/975535/
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/979374
How-To Install 2008 R2 on UEFI systems using GPT disk:
To install Windows Server 2008 R2 with the use of GPT disks on servers which have a UEFI, you must complete the following:
select disk 0
clean
convert gpt
create partition efi size=200
format quick fs=fat32 label="EFI"
create partition msr size=128
create partition primary
format quick fs=ntfs label="SYSTEM"
assign letter=C noerr
Diskpart /s <x:\filename.txt>
Start in:
x:\Windows\System32
To keep the same flow of deployment steps, you can place this task right above or below the “Format and Partition Disk” task that we disabled earlier.
How-To Install 2008 R2 on UEFI systems using MBR DISK:
Essentially you need to boot your UEFI system using "Legacy Mode" and there are also reports of Disabling "Legacy Thunk" to get it to work as well in combination.
On our IBM x3650 M2 we completed both steps and we were able to install 2008 R2 on UEFI systems using MBR disks.
Using MDT 2013. I would like to automatically move a computer object based on the computer name prefix. We currently have 20 country codes and 20 OU's that correspond to each country.
So if a computer name starts with US it will be placed in a predefined OU. If a computer name starts with GB it will be placed in a predefined OU, etc...
What is the best way to achieve this? This should happen all automatically and no user intervention.
Hello,
I am deploying windows 7 professional using MDT 2013 from source files. after deployment when i start search in start menu, i can see the icon( normally a glass magnifier kind of picture) is not showing properly. Please find the screen shot attached. Please help.
Thanks.
Thanks, Rajith P
Hi , I am using MDT 2013. I have 1 deployment share. I need to customize the default wizard which appear before the selection of task sequence is made. I basically added a build my own page but for some reason this page doesn't appear. Selecting the task sequence and then calling udiwizard.wsf in run command line step does show custom page. Any suggestion?
regards
Anurag
Hi,
I realizea projectin whichI have to deployWindows 7 with
MDT.
Alldriversare installedcorrectly, but whenI add theIntelethernetcontroller driver, deploymentiscompletelyfrozen. He did
not evenstart.
Hedisplayedan error:
Windowsfailed to start.A recenthardwareofsoftwarechangemightbethecause.
File:ifM63x64.sys
Status:0xc0000098
Info:Windowsfailed to loada requiredfileBecauseis missingor corrupt.
The file "ifM63x64.sys" is the "IntelEthernetFCoEVirtualStorportMiniportDriverVersion1.14.12.0."
If I install the driver by handon a similar pc, it works very well.
And the most interesting
is that this Windows BootManager error also appears whenI add another driver Intel (for PCI Serial Port), to deployto another computer.
Doesanyone can help me?
Capture process progresses to point of WIM Capture. First time through at 2% (watching this via BDD.log via Trace32) the server being captured randomly rebooted itself. Nothing logged, last entry just saying at 2% captured.
Second attempt was at "Console > Scanning files and directories" and just reboot. I had cmd window open in attempt to stop it rebooting but did anyway. I have configured to copy logs to the deployment server but there is nothing other than what was logged in BDD.log. SMSTS shows nothing at the time, ZTIBackup is just what's in BDD.log (obviously).
So why would it reboot itself randomly during WIM capture?
The server I am capturing is around 60GB HDD, 30GB used. Few applications installed. Am I doing something wrong? Should I not capture a server with various things installed?
Using MDT 2013 and Windows 7 Enterprise.
I have downloaded the LP.cab files for each of my languages. I need to know how to import them to my deployment share and how/where to install it during my lite touch installation?
