Automated Deployment Services (ADS) 1.0 and Windows Server 2003 SP1 Gotcha

re: Automated Deployment Services (ADS) 1.0 and Windows Server 2003 SP1 Gotcha

Jeffery Hicks — Wed, 11 May 2005 20:27:31 GMT

This bugged me to no end until I figured it out. Although I was getting a corrupt NTFS partition or bad/missing ntfs.sys. ADS ran just fine. I compared file versions of ntfs.sys and realized the SP1 version was probably the culprit.

re: Automated Deployment Services (ADS) 1.0 and Windows Server 2003 SP1 Gotcha

daniel barichello — Wed, 15 Jun 2005 07:38:46 GMT

Hi, Have you tried to do a image capture since applying SP1. I am having timeout errors now. This never happend prior to sp1.

re: Automated Deployment Services (ADS) 1.0 and Windows Server 2003 SP1 Gotcha

jhoward — Thu, 16 Jun 2005 14:31:22 GMT

Hi Daniel

Sorry, no. I haven't had a chance to try this out yet. The hardware I've been using at the roadshows were built before SP1 came out, and I left them in this state rather than change anything. Besides, they're actually rented kit, so I don't have them around to be able to investigate further. I'll be using the same kit for TechEd, so won't in reality get a chance to try this out until mid-July (VPCs and VS to try it out is too slow really). However, I'm not aware of any issues with SP1 being applied to the ADS controller box itself, only the issue about using SP1 files within the ADS installation itself.

Is the _only_ thing which has changed is the application of SP1 to the ADS controller? Are you capturing a machine which had been successfully previously been captured? What is the error on the box being captured itself? There are some common causes documented in vsmt.chm such as drivers and hotfixes.

Hope this helps?
Regards,
John.