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if you enable command support in your boot image, press f8 and get a look at your smsts.log, what does it asay

yup try that, and let us know how you get on cheers niall

from your log Failed to install SMS Client (0x80092024) that's pretty serious, so did you create the SCCM client package from definition and then update it to the distribution points ?

can you attach the SMSTS.log file please

here's how to find the SMSTS.log file http://www.windows-noob.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=546 post the file here and we'll have a look. are you adding the Windows 7 product key to your task sequence ? if so remove it and try again

did you check your network access account as suggested in the link i posted ?

what address do you get listed from ipconfig ? there are no management point certificates found in your logs see this post for ideas - http://blogs.msdn.com/b/boduff/archive/2009/06/01/sccm-reboot-during-osd-install-no-mp-certificates.aspx

i've seen if before too, usually when adding incorrect drivers or something in the unattend.xml that shouldn't be there, so.. have you tried disabling drivers to see does it help and/or remove the unattend.xml changes if any ?

does this help ? and I quote:-

After a first tip this week on Microsoft’s Jupiter — a new “application model” for Windows 8 — I started nosing around to learn more about this mysterious new Microsoft codename. Here’s a brain dump of what I learned after talking to a couple of sources of mine who spoke on the condition of anonymity, but whom I believe are in the know about the project. Jupiter is going to be a new user interface (UI) library for Windows, built alongside Windows 8. It will be a thin XAML/UI layer on top of Windows application programming interfaces and frameworks for subsystems like graphics, text and input. The idea is Jupiter will bring support for smoother and more fluid animation, rich typography, and new media capabilities to Windows 8 devices. (Not surprisingly, the more fluid UI capabilities also are on the feature set list for Silverlight 5.) The high-level goal for Jupiter is to help Microsoft revitalize a world where developers write applications tailored for a specific platform. The days of “killer apps” optimized for Windows driving demand for Windows PCs are waning (if not already long gone). Microsoft’s hope with Jupiter is to provide Microsoft and third-party developers with a new framework, plus the next versions of Microsoft’s various development tools, to build what Microsoft is calling “immersive” applications. Immersive apps are not meant to be Windows desktop apps. Nor are they necessarily pure Web apps. They are applications that will be built using C#, Visual Basic (and maybe C++). These apps will be developed using the new Windows 8 app model and take advantage of its inherent servicing and packaging technologies and that will be available via the anticipated Windows 8 app store. Because Jupiter will be built off the same core XAML technology used in Windows Phone and Silverlight, there’s a good chance some of the Silverlight code developers already have written will be able to be reused to develop this new class of apps. Does this mean Windows Phone apps will automatically work on Windows 8 and be available from the Windows 8 app store? I don’t know but I am doubtful. One of my contacts described Jupiter this way: “It has to do with XAML + Native Code on slate/iPad-like devices. I think this is Microsoft’s approach for putting Windows on the smaller device without the bloat.” For now, Jupiter is supposedly a Windows 8 thing only, but could potentially be adapted to work with older versions of Windows and maybe Windows Embedded operating systems, as well. Jupiter will actually ship as part of Windows 8, I am hearing from my contacts. A subset of Jupiter also will ship as part of a future version of the .Net Framework, according to what my sources said of Microsoft’s plans. Microsoft officials are not commenting on Jupiter. That’s not too surprising, as we heard from Microsoft execs at this week’s Consumer Electronics Show, they aren’t even willing to acknowledge that Windows 8 is what they’re calling the next version of Windows…. Any Windows, Windows Phone and/or Silverlight developers out there have any thoughts to add (or questions to ask) about Jupiter? I, for one, am curious whether Jupiter will be part of Windows 8 on both the newly announced SoC ARM/AMD/Intel systems and existing generation of 32/64-bit PCs or not… Update (January 7): Soma Somasegar, Senior Vice President of Microsoft’s Developer Division, responded directly to me on Friday with a comment on this post. He reiterated that Microsoft is not yet ready to talk about the next version of Windows, but did say that “some of the information in this post is not right and out of date, not reflecting Microsoft’s current thinking.” When I asked for more information about which parts of this information were incorrect, Somasegar declined to comment. via > http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/more-on-microsoft-jupiter-and-what-it-means-for-windows-8/8373?tag=must-read

Microsoft veteran and Server & Tools Business (STB) President Bob Muglia is leaving Microsoft, according to an email that CEO Steve Ballmer sent to employees on January 10. From Ballmer’s email: “The best time to think about change is when you are in a position of strength, and that’s where we are today with STB – leading the server business, successful with our developer tools, and poised to lead the rapidly emerging cloud future. Bob Muglia and I have been talking about the overall business and what is needed to accelerate our growth. In this context, I have decided that now is the time to put new leadership in place for STB. This is simply recognition that all businesses go through cycles and need new and different talent to manage through those cycles. Bob has been a phenomenal partner throughout this process, and he and his leadership team have the right strategy in place. “In conjunction with this leadership change, Bob has decided to leave Microsoft this summer. He will continue to actively run STB as I conduct an internal and external search for the new leader. Bob will onboard the new leader and will also complete additional projects for me. “Bob has been a founder and leader of our server business from its earliest inception. He has led our Developer, Office, and Mobile Devices Divisions, and key parts of Windows NT and our Online Services business. I’ve worked with him in many capacities over the years and I’ve always appreciated his customer focus, technical depth, people leadership skills, and his positive energy. I want to thank Bob for his hard work, many accomplishments, and his focus on putting Microsoft first for 23 years.” Microsoft is conducting an internal and external search for Muglia’s replacement and hopes to have something to announce “sooner rather than later,” I hear. Ballmer appointed Muglia one of four Microsoft presidents in January of 2009. (The other remaining Presidents are Steven Sinofsky, head of Windows and Windows Live; Qi Lu, head of Microsoft’s Online Services division; and Don Mattrick, head of the Interactive Entertainment Business.) Update: As others have noted, it does make it sound as though Muglia was unhappy with some pending Ballmer changes to the STB business and opted to leave. I don’t agree with some comments I’ve seen claiming Muglia wasn’t “on board” with Microsoft’s increasing emphasis on the cloud. Muglia’s been championing private and public cloud products and services from the company, and has done a lot to guide Microsoft’s “All In” transition, from my vantage point. Microsoft combined its cloud and server teams in December 2009, with Muglia continuing to head the STB. As part of that reorg, Microsoft’s Windows Azure chief Amitabh Srivastava began reporting directly to Muglia. Srivastava runs the unit that combines Windows Server and Windows Azure (codenamed RedDog) into the newly minted Server & Cloud Division. I’m betting Srivastava becomes the new STB chief. Other guesses? via > http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/server-and-tools-chief-muglia-to-leave-microsoft-in-summer-2011/8398?tag=content;feature-roto

This year’s Consumer Electronics Shows was one of the biggest and most substantive in years as tech companies showed off some legitimately breakthrough products and transmitted a general sense of enthusiasm about the future and the innovations that are coming down the pipeline. However, one big player that noticeably missed the boat on the big trends and failed to generate much enthusiasm was Microsoft. That’s why I put Microsoft on the losers list in my post on the biggest winners and losers of CES 2011. Some people have questioned that choice, arguing that Microsoft just had a big success with Xbox 360 Kinect and announced Windows 8 for ARM at CES. Kinect has been a huge sales success in the video game industry (which has been dying for a hot new product), even though Kinect is very gimmicky and the gesture interface still needs a lot of work. However, Windows 8 for ARM is not a game-changer for Microsoft. This is not about Microsoft scaling Windows down to run on smartphones and tablets, but ARM chips scaling up to be able to power desktops, laptops, and servers. Microsoft has always supported alternative architectures to x86 (NT supported PowerPC and Alpha) when it made sense. ARM chips are coming on strong and Microsoft wants to make sure Windows is an option on the new generation of low-cost PCs that will be powered by ARM chips. The bigger problem for Microsoft at CES 2011 was that there were several red-hot categories where it should have been a key player but it got virtually shut out from all of the big announcements and the hottest products. That’s not a good sign for Microsoft’s prospects in 2011. Specifically, here are four of the stars that aligned against Microsoft at this year’s CES: 1. Vision-less keynote This one was all on Microsoft itself. As usual, Microsoft had the beach-front property of CES keynotes as the first keynoter on the schedule on the night before the show officially opened. Unfortunately, Microsoft and CEO Steve Ballmer completely wasted the opportunity. It spent the presentation reviewing the new products that it launched in 2010, and even worse, it re-hashed some of the same demos from those product launches. Microsoft failed to give us a compelling vision for its place in the staggering changes that are sweeping through the computing world right now, especially the rapid transformation of the PC into smartphones and tablets. 2. Partners pushed Android over WP7 phones In the fourth quarter of 2010, Microsoft announced Windows Phone 7 devices with the help of major partners Samsung, HTC, LG, and Dell. While several of those devices just came to market or are still coming to market, those vendors spent CES touting their new Android devices. For all of them, the Windows Phone 7 devices were barely a footnote at CES. 3. No room in the spotlight for Windows machines One of the usual features of CES is seeing the new lines of desktops and laptops from the major PC vendors. In fact, those new machines have traditionally been some of the headliners of the show by integrating the latest processors or newest hardware components (such as Blu-ray drives, etc.), or innovating with flashy new designs. That wasn’t the case at CES 2011. Nearly all of the talk in the PC ecosystem was about new tablets and laptop/tablet hybrids, and nearly all of them — with a few exceptions like the Samsung Sliding PC 7 — were running Android. As with smartphones, Microsoft’s big hardware partners were pimping Android instead of Windows 4. Nothing to show in tablets Speaking of tablets, Microsoft had no story there. At last year’s CES keynote, Steve Ballmer tried to steal Apple’s thunder just a few weeks before the announcement of the iPad (the worst kept secret in tech at that point) by pre-announcing the coming of Windows Slate PCs. Other than the HP Slate 500, the tablets Ballmer touted last year never came to market due to software and battery issues. Since then, Microsoft hasn’t given us anything else to believe in, as far as its tablet strategy goes. Sure, Ballmer promised financial analysts last July that Microsoft was working on an iPad rival and he told CNET in October that Microsoft was waiting for Intel’s Oak Trail chips in order to create a great tablet, but talk is cheap. At CES 2011, even long-time chum Intel criticized Microsoft for waiting too long to get its act together on tablets. Ouch. Is Microsoft doomed? So, am I predicting the demise of Microsoft? No, I’m not saying it’s over for Microsoft. The company still has plenty of great technology assets and a ton of smart people working for it. Microsoft’s product quality has actually been pretty good over the last couple years. I’ve been impressed with the work they did on both Bing and Windows Phone 7, for example. The timing was late-to-market on both products and that will limit their success, but in both instances Microsoft showed that it can still execute. However, Microsoft needs to figure out the vision thing, and just saying “Windows everywhere” is not the answer. Ballmer and crew also need to figure it out pretty quickly because things are accelerating faster than ever in the tech industry, and Microsoft has to stop playing catch-up and start getting out in front of some of these big trends. Look at the Motorola Atrix, the new dual core Android smartphone that also doubles as a PC. This was a concept that Bill Gates championed over a decade ago, but who was the one who executed on it? Motorola, not Microsoft. At Motorola’s press conference announcing the Atrix I just kept thinking,”How did Microsoft and Apple let Motorola beat them to the punch on this?” What if Microsoft had built this kind of phone-docking technology into Windows Phone 7? I think the world would have been a lot more excited about WP7 phones. In fact, WP7 devices could have been the talk of CES as their hardware partners raced to offer the best WP7 phone + PC option. That’s an example of the kind of excitement Microsoft needs to be generating. It didn’t happen at this year’s CES, and that’s not a good sign for the former king of the computing world. via > http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/hiner/?p=7346

show me a screenshot of what you mean, i only have one site server so obviously can't delete that, have you tried right clicking on the server and see what options you get ? for site roles, i can select a role, right click and choose delete, do you not see that ?

let me try and replicate this here in my lab, i'll come back to you

i'm curious, does it work if you deploy Server 2008 (not R2) ?

can you enable verbose logging, and paste any relevant parts from scanstate.log, scanstateprogress.log please ? does it mention capturing your network settings, if so perhaps we only have a loadstate problem

well the advantage of hyperV is that it's a Microsoft product and definetly good to familiarise yourself with, everyone and their neighbor is a vmware expert these days i've used both vmware (esxi/workstation) and hyperV and i actually prefer using hyperV, I use it for all my labs cheers niall

welcome Peter ! you know we are happy to help have you tried server 2008 r2 yet ? it's great, and if you have a laptop/desktop that is virtual capable (cpu...) then you can install hyperV and run all your testing on that, that's the way i do it (virtual machines in hyperV), cheers niall

Web services are all around us, and with the proliferation of Cloud computing (and the Microsoft strategy for Public and Private Cloud), use of web services will become more-and-more common over time. In this 3-part series, I am going to drill down into Opalis web services capabilities and share some tips, including: * Making web service calls with Opalis * Dissecting the XML Response Payload * How to construct queries to retrieve targeted values * Pushing the limits – What to do when ‘Invoke Web Service’ isn’t enough In the Series * Part 1: Making Calls and Parsing Output * Part 2: When Invoke Web Services Isn’t Enough * Part 3: XPath Query Primer In this Installment Okay, time to get started. Let’s quickly look at the topics for this article and then we’ll get down to business. * Scenario and Sample Workflow * Object Configuration * Viewing the XML Response Payload * Extracting Data of the XML Response Payload * Presenting Results Scenario and Sample Workflow We’ll begin with an explanation of the Opalis policy (workflow). Here is a workflow that queries a web service (a stock quote service) to retrieve details about the stock performance of a particular company. Objectives for this Workflow: * Call the web service * Pass in a stock ticker symbol to retrieve info about a target company * Parse the XML output (the response payload) to extract specific information: o Full Company Name o Current Price o Price-to-Earnings (PE) Ratio * Present this data in a nicely formatted pop-up message NOTE: The Custom Start object at the beginning of the workflow is there so we can run this workflow on demand from the UI or externally through command line or the Opalis web service. read the rest here > http://www.systemcentercentral.com/blogs/administrator/archive/tags/powershell/BlogDetails/tabid/143/IndexID/83740/Default.aspx?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+systemcenterforum+%28SystemCenterForum.org+Rollup%29&utm_content=Twitter

Microsoft demonstrated at a press conference on January 5 the “next version of Windows” running on ARM processors, as many Microsoft watchers had been expecting. At the press conference — held a few hours before CEO Steve Ballmer will keynote the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) — Microsoft Windows President Steven Sinofsky showed off an early build of Windows 8 runnong on new systems-on-a-chip (SoC) platforms from NVIDIA, Qualcomm and Texas Instruments on ARM. To prove Microsoft isn’t abandonning the x86 architecture with Windows 8, company officials also showed off Windows 8 running on x86 SOC. Rumors that Microsoft would show off Windows 8 running on ARM have been circulating for the past couple of weeks. Earlier this week, TechFlash reported that Microsoft had cut deals with the aforementioned ARM chip makers, which will enable Windows 8 to run on ARM-based systems once the next release of Microsoft’s operating system is available. Sinofsky told press conference attendees they were forbidden from videotaping demos of the next version of Windows. Unsurprisingly, he also said Microsoft would not discuss its release schedule plans or show off the new Windows 8 user interface. Microsoft has been working to port Windows to ARM for several years. I had heard about LongARM, a project to port Vista (codenamed Longhorn) to ARM a while back. Microsoft last year signed an architecture licensing agreement with ARM, but wouldn’t say anything about its plans at that time. Microsoft is believed to be finally backing ARM as that low-power processor is especially well suited to tablets and slates, which are one of the primary form factors Microsoft plans to target with Windows 8. Windows 8, according to my tipsters, is just around the Milestone 2 mark, which is the second major internal build for the operating system. A public test build of Windows 8 isn’t expected by most until later this year. Microsoft officials have continued to say when the company is planning to ship WIndows 8. GIven that Windows 7 was released to manufacturing in July 2009, one would think a 2012 launch date is a possibility. (I have heard from some that Microsoft, once it does talk dates, may say 2013 to eliminate any possibility of being “late.”) Update: More from the Microsoft CES press conference and press releases: * Sinofsky said that “normal” Windows software will continue to run on Intel’s SOC with the next version of Windows without requiring any rewrites. * Sinofsky also said Microsoft will insure that Office, going forward, will run on ARM SOC systems. via > http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/ces-microsoft-shows-off-windows-8-on-arm

Watch Steve Ballmer's CES Keynote On-Demand Jan. 5, 2011 Watch the full on-demand video of Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's opening keynote address at 2011 CES on Wednesday evening in Las Vegas. On-Demand: Keynote Address Transcript: Steve Ballmer Keynote via > http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/events/ces/

we'll still be here when you come back to SCCM, by the way, did you ever manage to see what the SMSTS.log file said ? cheers niall.

check the sup component classifications, is Office 2010 enabled ?

you'll need the original sccm installation media, its on technet/msdn if you cannot find it. and as i said before we'll help you with this but you must be patient with it, especially in the beginning with OSD cheers niall

get your sccm 2007 sp2 media, as it's similar to installing a site, except choose to Install the console. see pic