Top Ten - Most Common BDD 2007 issues

Top 10 BDD 2007 issues

Aaron Tiensivu's Blog — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 03:49:47 GMT

A summary of a very informative post here. Number 1. - Partitioning within the Unattend.xml Number 2. - XP disk partitioning Number 3. - Trying to deploy images with WDS Number 4. - Failure to join the domain Number 5. - Drivers Number 6. - Creati

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Here are the "Best Of" the questions and answers from today's TechNet Webcast: "Windows Deployment Services

re: Top Ten - Most Common BDD 2007 issues

paulkeely — Fri, 04 May 2007 17:08:00 GMT

10 great tips

I am stuck on the last one : the PE config for ZTI, would love a blog on it step by step

Paul

Ben Hunter : Top Ten - Most Common BDD 2007 issues

The Daily Ramblings of an SMS Engineer — Fri, 18 May 2007 14:03:31 GMT

What do you mean you still don't read Ben's blog? It is non-stop information all around BDD,

Error with deploying Vista

Rana — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 12:44:40 GMT

When using BDD to deploy Vista, after copying the files to the location c:\Distribution\Operating Systems, BDD is returning an error stating that it was unable to load DLL "wimgapi.dll"

re: Top Ten - Most Common BDD 2007 issues

BenHunter — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 08:09:58 GMT

Hi Rana,

I would expect to find WIMGAPI.DLL in the system path after WAIK is installed. If you go to a command prompt in the TS session, you should see it in the PATH; look for something like "C:\Program Files\Windows Imaging".

If this is not the case then try reinstalling the WAIK or manually updating the path.

Thanks,

Ben

re: Top Ten - Most Common BDD 2007 issues

Sylvain Rousseau — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 23:10:43 GMT

Hi,

I tried to deploy a wim image of XP SP2 Pro an have always an error running task sequence "litetouch installation failed with the error code 0x00000002 contact your SMS admin... my winxp.wim image was not applied succesfully by imagex? i tried diskpart clean bootsect /nt52 all and

bootsect /nt52 sys c: /force and have always same error??? but i can deploy myvista.wim if you have an idea???

Thanks

re: Top Ten - Most Common BDD 2007 issues

BenHunter — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 06:54:50 GMT

Hi sylvain,

Ther are many issues that could cause this error code. I really need to see the logs from your minint folder and the smsts.log file before I can help you. You can send them to me on, ben dot hunter at microsoft dot com.

Thanks,

Ben

re: Top Ten - Most Common BDD 2007 issues

how about this.... — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 23:59:28 GMT

Assembly: mscorlib Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0 File Version: 2.0.50727.832 (QFE.050727-8300)

Assembly: Microsoft.ManagementConsole Assembly Version: 3.0.0.0 File Version: 5.2.3790.3959

Assembly: MMCFxCommon Assembly Version: 3.0.0.0 File Version: 5.2.3790.3959

Assembly: System Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0 File Version: 2.0.50727.832 (QFE.050727-8300)

Assembly: System.Windows.Forms Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0 File Version: 2.0.50727.832 (QFE.050727-8300)

Assembly: System.Drawing Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0 File Version: 2.0.50727.832 (QFE.050727-8300)

Assembly: System.Configuration Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0 File Version: 2.0.50727.832 (QFE.050727-8300)

Assembly: System.Xml Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0 File Version: 2.0.50727.832 (QFE.050727-8300)

Assembly: Microsoft.BDD.Workbench Assembly Version: 3.0.0.0 File Version: 3.0.142.0

Assembly: Microsoft.BDD.ConfigManager Assembly Version: 3.0.0.0 File Version: 3.0.142.0

Assembly: System.Data Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0 File Version: 2.0.50727.832 (QFE.050727-8300)

Assembly: System.Management Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0 File Version: 2.0.50727.832 (QFE.050727-8300)

System.Exception: The required MSXML3 files were not found. These should exist in the the configured OSD path directory "C:\SMS\OSD"

at Microsoft.BDD.ConfigManager.DeployItem.Generate(String platform, String localLogFile, Boolean skipPE)

re: Top Ten - Most Common BDD 2007 issues

BenHunter — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 07:20:41 GMT

When are you getting this error message?

Thanks,

Ben

re: Top Ten - Most Common BDD 2007 issues

jameshaywood — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 15:36:35 GMT

Finally! reason no 8 explains all my problems - thank you

re: Top Ten - Most Common BDD 2007 issues

ckarcher — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 02:56:00 GMT

I've not found mention of this, so...

We want to use a custom menu to allow our installing technicians from different departments to use deployment points by updating bootstrap.ini before litetouch.wsf runs.

What is the best way to add a menu to the litetouch boot iso?

(Management wants a single PXE boot image, so we cannot just point them at \boot on their deployment point)

Thanks

re: Top Ten - Most Common BDD 2007 issues

BenHunter — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 05:06:16 GMT

Hi ckarcher,

You can do this quite simply.

The first thing you need to do is ensure that all of the files you require are in the scripts folder of your litetouch image.

You can then call this interface from the bootstrap.ini.

Have you seen my blog on how to create a custom interface?

Thanks,

Ben

Don’t forget our old blogs!

The Deployment Guys — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 21:31:55 GMT

I am very happy with the progress of the deployment guys blog so far. Hopefully you all agree that we

re: Top Ten - Most Common BDD 2007 issues

Dustin — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 23:21:46 GMT

The bottom progress bar on the LiteTouch "Installation Prograss" window never actually does anything. Am I missing something? It is a minor annoyance but for the "pretty" factor. I was wondering if there was something I needed to do to get my background installs to display thier progress properly.

re: Top Ten - Most Common BDD 2007 issues

BenHunter — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 22:37:37 GMT

Hi Dustin,

In general this is for the "pretty" factor. However you can control this as the ztidiskpart script does.

Thanks,

Ben