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It's something lots of people here on OSNews have been waiting for. It's something we've talked about, something we've theorised about, and something we've declared as the future for Windows' backwards compatibility - and now it's here, and official. Over a month ago, Microsoft bloggers Rafael Rivera and Paul Thurrott have been briefed by Microsoft on a technology for Windows 7 called Windows XP Mode. Available as a free download for Windows 7 Professional, Enterprise, and Ultimate users, it's a fully integrated and licensed copy of Windows XP SP3 in a VirtualPC-based environment, with full "coherence" support. In other words, it's Microsoft's variant of Apple's Classic environment, and it's coming to Windows 7, for free. Near-instant update: The Windows 7 RC will indeed be available publicly on May 5. TechNet/MSDN will get it April 30. via osnews.com > http://www.osnews.com/story/21372/Windows_...sic_Environment

SMSTS.log file will tell you why it failed, so start reading it, its the only way to find out

programs that require answers are usually installed using switches or a config file, so you'll need to check sites like http://www.appdeploy.com to see what switches are required to silently install an application an example of that is firefox, to install it silently use firefox.exe -ms

if its booting the X64 boot image then the hardware must be x64 capable... thats not a problem, what you need to find out is exactly WHEN it's rebooting, if its happening just after loading windows PE then its most likely a network issue, and you'll need to post a copy of your SMSTS.LOG file here to figure that out this post will help you do that...

Tobie to the rescue ! well done

I agree ! keep things simple and clear, how long will that link be active for example ?

read this post then

i'm sure its possible with a script or query.. but first, how are you installing the software in the first place, please explain

you asked "can i use x86 sccm to deply x64 vista" and yes, you can, what problems are you having with it exactly ?

Dom you have extracted the contents of the ISO file so that you can see all the files within it havnt you ??? you can do that two ways, burn a DVD using the ISO image or mount the iso in daemon tools or similar if you are trying to use the ISO file itself for this SCCM guide, then it will fail, cheers anywe

Dom, all you have to do is burn that ISO to DVD or mount it via daemon tools or similar, sorry if I didn't make that clear ie: I only mentioned 'iso' to tell you what version of XP i was using... cheers anyweb

can you post the whole log file here please SMS_MP_CONTROL_MANAGER.log

A page over at Microsoft Partners has been updated to show that Windows 7 RC will be publically released on May 5, and should be available for MSDN and Technet subscribers now. However, clicking through the download link will only get you the beta, right now. This would seem to jive with an earlier leak on a Microsoft page saying that the RC would be available in May, but that was taken down soon after it was reported. Well see how long this page stays updated with the Windows 7 RC information, or how long it'll take before RC does actually hit MSDN and Technet. Updated: The page at Microsoft has been reverted back to information on the Windows 7 beta, and information on obtaining trial keys for partners. There is information going around multiple sites and our forums that Windows 7 RC has been sent to major OEMs. While the only way we can confirm this is a quote from Microsoft Online Concierge Chat, that said "Currently the Windows 7 RC has not been avaiable through the TechNet subscription yet, only the Microsoft OEM partners such as Dell, Siemens are taking part in the RC's this period of test." We take this to mean those OEMs have the bits right now, and that they'll be hitting the public Internet in the dates listed on the leaked website. via neowin > http://www.neowin.net/news/main/09/04/18/w...on-public-may-5

are you installing the mp on the sccm server or elsewhere ?

try setting the boundary the same way as I have done in the guides, point it to your AD does that help ?

when troubleshooting this i normally open task manager on the client i'm installing on... then watch the processes and as soon as i initiate the install you should see ccmsetup.exe start up on the client (nearly sure thats the file name but not on the server/client now so can't verify) can you verify that you are seeing this please ? is the client in the boundary you defined in ConfigMgr

tell me how you are instlaling the client, is it from the All Systems colleciton ? or some other method

if the clients are XP then they'll need BITS installed first and most likely a reboot before the client can get installed... that might explain what you are seeing... what version of XP is it ? you could try pushing the client out using Software Update Point see here for details of that

no to your first question and yes to the second cheers anyweb

TechARP had been providing giving updates on the Windows 7 Downgrade Rights Program. Now Microsoft has confirmed the same in a blog post, regarding the Windows 7 Downgrade rights program. Users can downgrade to Windows XP and Windows Vista from Windows 7 via OEMs for 6 months after Windows 7 General Availability. For customers and businesses running Windows XP, Microsoft still recommends an upgrade to Windows Vista before moving onto upgrading Windows 7. If the user needs to run Windows XP Professional on new PCs and if they are running Windows Vista Business or Windows Vista Ultimate already, they have the automatic right to downgrade to a previous version of Windows for the life of that PC and the downgrade media may be obtained by an OEM for Windows XP for the service life of that PC (OEMs can choose to provide downgrade media). more > http://www.neowin.net/news/main/09/04/15/m...owngrade-rights

yes its possible, but you'll have to modify some DHCP scope options if its on a different server to WDS cheers anyweb

thanks for posting this, I came across this exact problem recently when deploying Server 2008 x64, topic pinned

are the three clients showing up correctly in the All Systems Collection with Client=Yes and Approved=Yes ? was any firewall GPO changed ? any networking changed ?

you dont need to recapture it, you could just edit the wim directly using imagex from the WAIK tools...

dude this info is good because it will help people who have this problem, (I like the fact that you show screenshots of SCCM in it's error state and include the actual errors) but I'm guessing that you didn't see this yet ? cheers anyweb