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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 in the
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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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Here's another ConfigMgr 2007 OSD tip from Frank Rojas out in Charlotte, North Carolina. If you have a Task Sequence that fails almost immediately after it boots into WinPE with an 0x80004005 error then you'll want to check this one out: ======== Issue:
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Yesterday I posted a step-by-step on how to enable Multicast for your OS Deployments (OSD) so I thought I'd also take a sec to point out the log files used to troubleshoot the same. These log files, as well as the standard logs for troubleshooting
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Over on Steve Rachui's Manageability blog he has a great write-up on how to minimize your network utilization by enabling Multicast for your OSD image deployments. If you're deploying to a lot of machines at the same time then you'll definitely
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Here's another cool tip on OSD Task Sequences that Frank Rojas made me aware of. Is there anything he doesn't know about these things? If there is I don't know what it is. ======== Issue: When using SMS 2003 Operating System Deployment with
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Here's a good tip from Frank Rojas, one of our Senior Support Engineers from Charlotte, North Carolina. This one concerns installing Office 2007 as an Install Software task in an OSD Task Sequence so if you either planning on doing this or are trying
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Ever tried to do an OSD with System Center Configuration Manager 2007 and have it fail "Task sequence cannot continue after reboot because TS Manager is not configured to auto-start or GINA is not installed?" If so then check out this tip from Frank Rojas
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Here's another cool tip from Frank Rojas. If you're trying to PXE boot and getting "No Boot Action for Device (x) found" errors then you'll want to check this out: ======== Issue: When attempting to PXE boot a PC using SCCM 2007 OSD, the PXE boot fails.
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Have you ever wanted to use deploy operating systems to computers using a PXE service point without first adding the computer to the Configuration Manager database? Well now with Configuration Manager 2007 R2 you can and the famous Steve Rachui
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Here's another great tip from Frank Rojas, one of our top Support Engineers out in Charlotte, North Carolina. If you planning on doing a little work with bootable flash drive media you'll want to read this first: ======== Issue: After creating a bootable
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