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what it's telling you is that you can only install the EVALUATION version of R3 on the EVALUATION version of SCCM 2007. so, if you want to install R3, then download the full version (not the evaluation version) and try again, cheers niall

Microsoft Corp., the world’s largest software maker, will announce a version of its Windows computer operating system that runs on ARM Holdings Plc technology for the first time, said two people familiar with Microsoft’s plans. The new product will debut at the Consumer Electronics Show in January, said the people, who asked not to be identified because Microsoft’s plans are confidential. The software would be tailored for battery-powered devices, such as tablet computers and other handhelds, the people said. The operating system would give Microsoft another way to attack the market for tablets and phones, where it’s lost ground to Apple Inc. and Google Inc. ARM chips -- made by Qualcomm Inc., Texas Instruments Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. -- are used in most smartphones, as well as Apple’s best-selling iPad. A full-featured version of Windows for ARM chips is the best way for Microsoft to make a dent in the iPad’s lead, said Robert Breza, a Minneapolis-based analyst for RBC Capital Markets. While Windows is dominant in the personal-computer market, it hasn’t parlayed that into tablet success yet. “They’ve got to come back with a product that’s better than ‘me too’ and is equal if not better in features,” Breza said. He has an “outperform” rating on Microsoft’s stock, which he doesn’t own. “A lot of tablets today are inferior to PCs.” ARM Climbs Microsoft rose 26 cents to $28.07 at 4 p.m. New York time in Nasdaq Stock Market trading. The stock has lost 7.9 percent this year. ARM’s U.S.-traded shares, which have more than doubled in value this year, climbed 6.6 percent to $19.78. The new software also will be able to work on Intel Corp. and Advanced Micro Devices Inc. processors -- the chips that power PC versions of Windows. While other versions of Microsoft software aimed at phones and mobile devices work on ARM chips, this is the first time it will make a full version of Windows available on that technology. Intel is trying to make its own forays into tablets and smartphones, squaring off against ARM’s technology. ARM, based in Cambridge, England, sells the rights to use its patents and chip designs and doesn’t manufacture the electronic components. Bill Cox, a spokesman for Redmond, Washington-based Microsoft, declined to comment. Charlene Marini, a California- based spokeswoman for ARM, said the company doesn’t comment on rumor or speculation. Tom Beermann, at Santa Clara, California- based Intel, also declined to comment. Apple sold 7.46 million iPads from the product’s April debut through September. The device accounted for 95 percent of the tablet market last quarter, according to Strategy Analytics. Microsoft may be able to win 10 percent to 20 percent of the as many as 50 million tablets that will be sold next year, Breza estimates. He predicted that Windows tablets will be cheaper than the iPad. via > http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-12-21/microsoft-is-said-to-announce-version-of-windows-for-arm-chips-at-ces-show.html related > 1. http://www.osnews.com/story/24165/Windows_NT_on_ARM_It_s_a_Server_Thing 2.http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2010/12/microsoft-may-be-porting-windows-to-arm-but-it-makes-no-sense.ars

as it's beta 1 and there are more releases planned i doubt it will be supported as an upgrade path to the final release of vNext, perhaps if it was a release candidate but not beta 1. however, that said i havnt seen (or heard) any official statement about this, cheers niall

sounds like you need network drivers added to your boot.wim image, did you add any for the optiplex ? did you enable command prompt support (f8) ?

Microsoft announced today that they have sold over 1.5 million Windows Phone 7 through its various partners. The software giant had since avoided the question, but finally made their sales numbers available today. Achim Berg, Microsoft Vice President for mobile communications business and marketing group said that the sales figures were for the first six weeks of sales. Berg believes that Windows Phone 7 has been a success for the company, and that overall customer satisfaction is very high. "Sales are ramping well as our reputation is growing for offering users a unique experience and are in line with our expectations - especially when compared to other new platform introductions. With a new platform you have to look at a couple of things, first of all customer satisfaction. As I mentioned before, we've seen great response on the complete mobile phone experience." With over 1.5 million units sold, according to Microsoft, these early sales figures meet the companies expectations for a new smartphone in an already crowded market. Berg believes that Windows Phone 7 is already off to a great start and customers just need to experience the device before they will fall in love. Berg also mentioned that Microsoft is working on an update for the device, which is rumored to be landing in early 2011. via > http://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-15-million-windows-phone-7-devices-sold

it would be better to build and capture your image on virtual hardware, that said, verify that your compuer isn't obsolete, what collection did you advertise the task sequence to ?

hi all, as the year is coming to a close I thought I would share with you some interesting results from the site stats, as you can see, Decembers traffic has beaten the previous months record high, and the daily average visitor count to windows-noob.com is now 8693 some interesting facts below for Decembers traffic:- Top 10 of 32 Total Entry Pages # Hits Visits URL 1 7019699 64.92% 175112 91.73% /forums/ 2 9851 0.09% 8328 4.36% / 3 308754 2.86% 6564 3.44% /forums/public/min/ 4 8921 0.08% 329 0.17% /forums/public/ 5 427 0.00% 189 0.10% /review/ie7/ 6 113 0.00% 79 0.04% /SecureXP/remote.htm 7 107 0.00% 71 0.04% /SecureXP/indexingService.htm 8 124 0.00% 57 0.03% /review/ie7/part_4.html 9 51 0.00% 32 0.02% /SecureXP/ 10 40 0.00% 29 0.02% /SecureXP/iislogxp.htm Top 20 of 17158 Total Search Strings # Hits Search String 1 210 0.81% kms server 2 138 0.53% windows noob 3 74 0.29% sysprep vista 4 57 0.22% windows system image manager 5 53 0.21% sccm asset intelligence 6 50 0.19% sccm 2012 7 50 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http://search.yahoo.com/search 211 0.00% http://www.google.ca/ Based on the above, approx 70% of visitors come for the forums, they come on a work day (Monday to Friday), most people that come to the site use Microsoft Windows 7 (or Windows Server 2008 R2, but the former is more likely), they use Internet Explorer 8 and arrived via a google search. Some people (0.12%) used translation services to translate the website. Surprisingly (to me) a lot of people came here after searching for KMS Server. If you guys would like me to post this type of info (and I can go into more detail if you wish) then let me know, cheers niall

on a vista virtual machine, try running that command via psexec using the system account and see what it reports

for workaround look at my SCCM guides list and try the password in a task sequence..; might work. or wait until the next version of vNext

welcome to the forums !

hi an welcome brian, you'll enjoy vNext it's definetly different !

if its greyed out then add a boot image to the task sequence.

right click on the collection and choose Update Collection Membership, then press F5 to refresh, does it show then ?

do you mean that you want to use SCCM as a SUP (software update point) ? if so you can install the WSUS server on an internet facing pc, and install the SUP role on that server then

if you remove the wds server, delete the remoteinstall folder (or move it somewhere) and empty c:\windows\temp\wds... and reinstall wds does it work then ?

Both Apple and Microsoft are betting on H264 for HTML5 video, while Firefox and Opera focus on WebM and Chrome does both. Microsoft, however, is kind of an oddball; they first stated they would limit HTML5 video support in Internet Explorer 9 to H264, excluding all other codecs, but later made an exception for WebM, as long as the user installs the WebM codec. Now there's a new move by Microsoft: a Firefox plugin that allows the browser to hook into Windows 7's native video framework to provide H264 support. The Mozilla Foundation cannot, and will not, provide support for H264 in Firefox, for the simple reason that it's against their open nature, and, of course, because it's too expensive; the H264 patent license agreement isn't cheap, and on top of that, extremely limited in what it allows. However, Windows 7 has built-in support for playing H264 content, so why simply not allow Firefox to use that? Microsoft thought so too, and decided to release its own plugin that allows Firefox to hook into Windows 7's native H264 support. "H.264 is a widely-used industry standard, with broad and strong hardware support. This standardization allows users to easily take what they've recorded on a typical consumer video camera, put it on the Web, and have it play in a web browser on any operating system or device with H.264 support, such as on a PC with Windows 7," Microsoft told CNet, "The HTML5 Extension for Windows Media Player Firefox Plug-in continues to offer our customers value and choice, since those who have Windows 7 and are using Firefox will now be able to watch H.264 content through the plug-in." The plugin has its limitations - for instance, right now, it uses the Windows Media Player API for its controls, but Microsoft wants it to use those defined by the HTML5 standard instead. There's also an issue when pages call to canPlayType to determine if the browser supports H264; in that case, even with the plugin installed, the video won't play. Microsoft is working on fixing these issues. It's an interesting proposition, and will surely come in handy for those using Firefox on Windows 7. Still, WebM is a far better choice for HTML5 video due to it not being governed by a patent troll, and because it's open source and freely re-distributable. via > http://www.osnews.com/story/24137/Microsoft_Brings_H264_to_Firefox_on_Windows_7

here you go http://www.windows-noob.com/forums/index.php?/topic/543-how-can-i-deploy-windows-server-2008-using-sccm-2007-sp1/page__view__findpost__p__3774

We are extremely excited to announce that Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010 (FEP) has released to manufacturing! Customers can access the RTM release on the Microsoft Volume Licensing Service Center (VLSC) starting Jan. 1, 2010 -- or try the evaluation version immediately. This is our first – and very significant – step in making the convergence of desktop security and management a reality. Customers using System Center Configuration Manager 2007 can now quickly and efficiently deploy, configure, manage, update, and report on FEP protections, helping to lower infrastructure costs and improve overall security. And since both products are included in the Enterprise CAL (ECAL), customers who purchase ECAL automatically get access to all the licenses they need to implement the solution. To make deployment easier, FEP will even identify and replace the existing antimalware agents you may have previously installed. Customers have already begun seeing the advantages of bringing together powerful antimalware protection with their existing infrastructure for deploying, patching, and updating client systems. A large university medical center that participated in our Technology Adoption Program (TAP) said the following about their experience using FEP in their 50,000 desktop environment: “We’re primarily a paperless organization. We need 100% uptime so that medical records, prescriptions, and all other documentation is available to our healthcare professionals. The single console for Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010 [and System Center Configuration Manager 2007] gives me a view of our whole system and ensures that we can handle threats before they become an issue.” There are a ton of new features to explore in this new release including award-winning antimalware protection (FEP uses same engine as Microsoft Security Essentials), vulnerability shielding, Windows firewall management, and, of course, integration with System Center Configuration Manager 2007. You can find more product details on our Web site or TechCenter. And for more information about convergence, please visit our new Windows Optimized Desktop page. We hope that you will give FEP a test drive soon! via > http://blogs.technet.com/b/forefront/archive/2010/12/16/announcing-forefront-endpoint-protection-2010.aspx

did you re-distribute the boot images to the distribution points after enabling that option ?

if you enable command prompt support and press f8 in winpe, what does your SMSTS.log file say about the problem

or... md c:\somedir net share someshare=c:\somedir /UNLIMITED /REMARK:"someshare" /GRANT:Everyone,FULL cacls c:\someshare /E /T /C /G "%USERDNSDOMAIN%\Administrators:f

nice info, thanks for sharing

take a look at this post to see why

many ways of doing it, easiest way is to create a query to check for members of an active directory security group, and if found in there, they'll be automatically added to the collection you can see how to do that here

what server is it trying to send that packet to ? have you tried disabling firewall temporarily to see is it a firewall/port issue ?