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look here > are you specifying the Computer Container as an Organisational Unit ? it's a container so that will fail... cheers niall

what group or collection have you advertised this to ?

you'll probably need to configure ip helpers on your network switch to allow pxe

Microsoft said on Wednesday that it had sold 150 Million licenses of Windows 7, seven copies every second. The extraordinary fact was announced on the Windows Team Blog by Microsoft blogger Brandon LeBlanc. "We are excited to announce that Windows 7 has sold 150 million licenses to-date. As I’ve said before, Windows 7 is the fastest selling operating system in history with 7 copies of Windows 7 sold every second", said LeBlanc. Microsoft made the headlines in January when it announced that it had sold over 60 million licenses of Windows 7. In March the company hit the 90 million milestone and estimates that 300 million licenses will be sold during 2010. Microsoft released Windows 7 on October 22, 2009. The operating system has received praise from consumers, businesses and the media. In November 2009, Windows 7 managed to surpass Apple's Snow Leopard market share in just two weeks. In early February it was revealed that Windows 7 had reached 10% market share in just three months. Windows 7 has also driven an uptake of 64-bit computing. According to ChangeBASE research, conducted with senior IT decision makers, more than 65% of businesses hoped to migrated to Windows 7 within 12 months of its release. Over 50% of those migrating will be choosing the 64-bit route. Screenshots of a Windows 7 post RTM build showed up on the web in February, fueling speculation that Microsoft is compiling early Windows 8 builds. The successor to Windows 7 will likely be available in 2011 as an ex-Microsoft worker penned July 2011 as the RTM date for Windows 8. Microsoft is currently readying its first Service Pack for Windows 7. Technical beta testers recently received build 7601.16562.100603-1800. A public beta version will be available in July with a public release in September this year.

Windows Live Essentials beta has already been unveiled and now is available for public testing. The package contains useful tools for everyday use including Windows Live Movie Maker, Mail, Messenger, Writer, Photo Gallery, Sync, and Family Safety. Windows Live Essentials supports ribbon across many of the programs included, like Movie Maker, Mail, Photo Gallery and Writer. Microsoft has used this ribbon in other software products released including Microsoft Office 2010. Photo Gallery Windows Live Photo Gallery is a simple way to view, sort, edit and share your photos and videos. Windows Live Photo Gallery allows you to tag, rate, caption and share with friends and your social networks, including Facebook, Flickr, Windows Live Groups, YouTube and SkyDrive. Movie Maker Movie Maker offers you simple and effective ways of adding, editing and creating videos. Add multiple videos to make one video, add music, backgrounds, transitions and much more. You can record directly from your webcam or import from your camera and edit using an assortment of visual effects to give your video a professional touch. Once you're all finished, directly upload your video to YouTube, Facebook, or SkyDrive. Movie Maker allows for sharing plug-ins, so you can add other sharing websites in the future. Mail Connect any Windows Live Passport to Mail, allowing you to send and receive emails all right from your desktop. Keep your emails, calendars, RSS feeds and contacts organized all from your desktop, without using a browser. Windows Live Mail delivers most of the features that Microsoft Office 2010 offers. Sync Easily access your folders from your desktop to your laptop or other home computers. Select any folder on your computer with pictures or videos to sync with another computer. Remotely connect and browse the folders and files you need while you're away from your desktop. You can even sync Internet Explorer and Microsoft Office 2010 settings using Sync. Writer If you manage a blog or just like keeping a personal journal, Windows Live Writer lets you post directly from your desktop, with the ability to include YouTube or desktop videos, pictures, photo albums, maps, emoticons and tags. You can even set Windows Live Writer to use your online blog theme, so you can preview exactly how it will look before you publish. Family Safety Designed to keep your children safe by giving parents or guardians control over what is available to view. Simple and easy to manage filters can be enabled for your Windows accounts, making sure your children can't access adult content. Windows Live Family Safety makes it easy to monitor what your kids are viewing online. Requests and blocked websites are sent to the parents email, giving them the option to approve or deny access to certain websites. Messenger One of the biggest improvements in Windows Live Essentials is Messenger. Now with integrated social networks like Facebook and MySpace, with more networks coming, users can view, comment, and post right within Windows Live Messenger. Messenger allows you to switch between the social network + contacts and the classic contact list view. Users not interested in the social networking addition can view their contact list as they always have. Instantly chat with friends and family all around the world, sharing videos and photos, even using your webcam to chat live with them. Download Download Windows Live Essentials beta Build number: 15.3.2804.0607 via http://www.neowin.net/news/windows-live-essentials-beta-available-now

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just to verify, you want to deploy the image using Windows Deployment Services (WDS) or MDT 2010 ? (Microsoft Deployment Toolkit) ?

you could create a check for the boot.ini file or something similar and base the deployment drive on that ?

great stuff i look forward to it

looks good, did you download it again ?

Things may be turning around in the PC market, according to new analysis by IDC. IDC reported this week that it expects revenue in the 2010 PC market to surpass a peak that was last set in 2008. The main growth driver will come from mainstream notebooks, IDC predicts, based on its June "Worldwide Quarterly PC Tracker" report. Netbooks, which IDC calls "mininotebook PCs," will play less of a role in driving PC sales, staying at less than 12 percent of sales, the analyst firm predicts. The desktop PC is not quite dead yet, with IDC expecting growth of "over 8% in 2010." This positive expectation is based on the idea that businesses will start buying new PCs and "the popularity of All-in-One PCs." It also arises from a low earlier benchmark -- or, as IDC puts it, "a dismal 2009" for desktop PCs. However, a table accompanying IDC's announcement shows relatively flat figures for desktop PC sales -- at least in the U.S. market -- over the next four years. Global PC sales grew 27 percent in the first quarter of 2010 compared with last year's first quarter, according to IDC. The analyst firm expects to see a growth rate of 20 percent overall for global PC sales for the whole of this year. The market will face some disruption from new portable PCs hitting the market, according to Jay Chou, an IDC research analyst. "New devices such as e-readers and media tablets will pose disruptive challenges to conventional usage models while opening up intriguing possibilities in consumer and mobile business spaces," Chou said, in a released statement. The success of the new devices will depend on balancing the benefits of portability with having the ability to produce "creative content" on the new devices. IDC forecasts that total worldwide PC shipments will grow from 296 million in 2009 to 570 million in 2014. In the U.S. market, total PC shipments will grow from 70 million in 2009 to 121 million in 2014, IDC predicts. Forrester Research analysts, looking at the U.S. consumer PC market, also see some upward trends. "Over the next five years, PC unit sales across all form factors will increase by 52%," stated Forrester analyst Sarah Rotman Epps, in a recent blog post. "In fact, desktops are the only type of PC whose numbers will be fewer in 2015 than they are today -- and even desktops will benefit from innovation in gaming and 3D." Forrester predicts that "growth will come from new form factors like tablets, but laptop sales will increase steadily also." Tablets will start outselling netbooks in 2012, according to Forrester's report, "The US Consumer PC Market In 2015." Forrester's report, like that of IDC, also sees PCs as not quite dead yet. "Fewer desktops will be sold in 2015 than in 2010, but in 2015, they'll still be used by more consumers than any other type of PC," Rotman Epps stated. via > http://redmondmag.com/articles/2010/06/18/pc-sales-to-grow-20-percent-this-year.aspx?utm_source=windows-noob.com

download it aqain then and see what happens, perhaps its corrupt

sure thing, to do this in MDT Deployment workbench, right click on your Deployment Share, choose Properties, click on the Windows PE X86 Settings tab and browse to the background file you want to use

are you trying to install Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 professional ? if so it has several dependancies (like .net and so on, it's all listed in the help files) that need to be installed first, how have you created the package and are you using msi switches ?

are you installing from a dvd ? if so try another one ? have you tried disabling antivirus ? can you give more details about how you are trying to install

ok then, update it to SCCM 2007 SP2 and you should be good

have you tried logging out, deleting the user profile, logging in again and trying it ? have you tried different media ?

you'll need to update SCCM 2007 SP1 to SCCM 2007 SP2 cheers niall

is it windows xp media center edition ?

look at the program rerun behaviour of your task sequence advertisement, what is it set to ?

if you want software updates installed in a specific order then you'll have to manually install those updates using an Install Software task sequence step, the install software updates step will install whatever if feels is nescessary for that computer, so you could test it again and again and see what it installs first..

sounds a bit messy, are you intending to do software updates via SCCM or not ? if not just remove the software update client agent and see does that help ?

this is a known issue, i don't know if it's documented anywhere but it's certaintly been noticed before, so i'd say it's safe to disregard if everything is working ok otherwise

is your computer using the 64bit os ? then check the c:\windows\syswow64\ccm folder instead