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Recently I ran into a situation where I needed to customize the OS capture media in System Center Configuration Manager 2007 as the standard capture media created by ConfigMgr does not have any way to be modified or customized. The reason for customizing
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After applying KB971413 to fix Multicasting for SCCM 2007 OSD deployments where the Windows OS WIM file is over 4GB, Multicast OS deployments may no longer work, including for Windows OS WIM files that are under 4GB. If enabled, the deployment falls back
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Just an FYI that at 10:00am Pacific time on August 5, 2009, we’ll be hosting a webcast on automating Windows 7 operating system deployments using Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007. I have the intro and a registration link below so mark
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I was browsing through some of the other Configuration Manager blogs this morning and found a really good one written by Steve Rachui from our PFE (Premier Field Engineer) group. This one is about a Windows Installer issue he ran into the other
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When you use System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Operating System deployment (OSD) to deploy Volume License builds of Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) images, "Activate Windows" may still appear in the "All Programs" Start menu after deployment. Since
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We had two new Knowledge Base articles on System Center Configuration Manager 2007 last week: They’re both about an issue where the image capture process may fail during the "Prepare Windows for Capture" stage but the first refers to ConfigMgr
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Here’s a tip on an issue you may run into if you’re trying to run a script at the end of an OSD with System Center Configuration Manager 2007. If you’re pushing images of 64-bit Windows Server 2008 systems, and in the build task sequence you’re trying
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If you’re using the System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Operating System Deployment feature to deploy operating system images in secondary sites, here’s some information you may find interesting: Issue: During the deployment of a System Center Configuration
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The folks over on the Configuration Manager team blog have a great post on how to resolve an issue we’re seeing where Vista SP1 installations deployed using OSD may not be able to hibernate. If you’re deploying Windows Vista Service Pack 1 using
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Here's an issue that Frank Rojas saw the other. This particular issue involved a Dell E6400 but I thought it was worth a post because the same troubleshooting technique could be used for similar issues with other hardware as well: ======== Issue:
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Here's another neat tip from Clifton Hughes in our Irving, Texas site. If you're PXE booting machines and they're throwing 0x80072ee7 errors along with getting APIPA addresses then you might try turning on portfast if you're using a Cisco Spanning
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I'm sure you all noticed a remarkable lack of activity over the past week but I'll be cranking things up again very soon. I've been out since November 20th on a much needed vacation to celebrate Thanksgiving with friends and family but I'm back
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Here's an interesting OSD related issue I got from Vinay Pamnani, a Support Engineer in our Manageability group. If all your Vista or Win2K8 deployments mysteriously end up on the D drive then maybe this is your issue: ======== Issue: When deploying
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Here's another cool OSD tip from Frank Rojas . If your clients are joining the domain like you expect then maybe this is what you're running into: ======== Issue: A client does not join the domain if the Computers container is specified as the Domain
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Here's another awesome troubleshooting tip sent to me by Clifton Hughes in our Las Colinas office. If you're deploying Windows Server 2008 or Windows Vista and your Task Sequence bombs out with a 80004005 error you'll want to take a look at this: ========
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