In this post i will tell you how i built and captured an image of Windows 7. First of all you need a source. I used an ISO file of our Win7 Enterprise. Next is to copy the entire content of the ISO to a network share. If you get … Continue reading
Today i had a SCCM 2007 client that was used to test some settings and task sequences. After having succesfully deployed a flavor of Windows 7 to the machine i needed to test another task sequence. Whatever i did.. it kept on presenting the abortpxe error. I tried clearing the … Continue reading
When i was deploying Windows 7 via PXE with SCCM i came across a nasty problem. I used the install.wim file as my source. Using this file results in the following effect: A fresh install of Windows resides on a disk named “Default” which has the driveletter: D! This immediately … Continue reading
Today we had a client who couldn’t connect to our server using WebDav. Testing all sorts of methods we tried a XP client and tried to recreate the problem. All tries to connect with WebDav to the target server (windows server 2008) worked. Then what was the problem with the … Continue reading
Today i encountered this weird problem. Trying to copy the content of the Windows 7 install DVD to deploy it in the organization it resulted in a copy error: Invalid MS-DOS function. Trying again fails. Skip seems no option. What to do? Since i am using a virtual infrastructure i … Continue reading
I was troubleshooting System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) 2007 last week. Some unknown machines weren’t getting an image when PXE booting. Those machines were used in test environments before. Afterwards the solution was pretty obvious, but in the heat of battle this simple fix took us 2 hours The log … Continue reading
At work i wanted to send images to newly arrived computers with System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) 2007 running on Windows Server 2008. SCCM 2007 R2 makes this very easy. In SCCM 2007 you can deploy OSD’s to “unknown” computers. Those computers are non existent in the SCCM 2007 database. … Continue reading
Today i had a client that needed a new operating system. We use SCCM 2007 to deploy operating systems. When pxe booting the client we got an abortpxe.com error. We restarted the Windows Deployment Service (WDS) service, reran the advertisement, cleared the last PXE advertisement and so on: No solution. … Continue reading
Hello there, Today i wanted to simply install a SCOM agent on a 2008 server. Lots of other servers with the same OS and settings, so they say, install correctly. Some however won’t install with a push install. Error 80070102. Investigating this problem i looked at a logfile that is … Continue reading
This morning i was confronted with the following PXE error in my SMSPXE.log file: SCCM:PXE: Failed to read PXE settings. The system cannot find the file specified. (Error: 80070002; Source: Windows) My client won’t start up from PXE at all because of this PXE error. I found out that at … Continue reading
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