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if you've just installed Windows Server 2008, and are trying to get connected to the internet via wireless you'll have no end of problems as it just will not see any wireless networks no matter what driver you install for your wireless card. The reason is because Wireless is disabled by default in Windows Server 2008. To resolve it, do as follows in Server manager scroll down to Features Summary and click on Add Features. When the Select Features window appears, scroll down to Wireless LAN Service, and place a checkmark in there. you'll be informed that the server may need a restart... click install to continue the wireless lan installation service will be initialized and hopefully will succeed click close to continue and then browse your wireless networks as normal choose one to connect to and then you are done ! that's it, cheers niall

ok first of all lets rule out storage as the issue:- have you tried changing the AHCI/SATA mode in bios ? if changing that doesnt help your problem then we need to know exactly how you created your Windows PE image (what boot.wim file did you use and from what DVD (msdn/dell oem vista dvd) please specify cheers anyweb

hi and welcome to the forums are you trying to use WDS to load your optiplex 755's with vista or xp or are you doing something else (capturing/deploying wds images...) on the front of your dell optiplex, does it say VPRO anywhere ?

After being released to manufacturing last week, SP3 for XP is now available as either a standalone installer (direct download link) or at Windows Update. PC Magazine has coverage of the new service pack, including launch details, a hands-on review, slideshows, and expert tips. via osnews.com

Despite Microsoft's obvious focus on selling Windows Vista to its customers, it hasn't yet forgotten about all those people out there that still use Windows XP (personally, I use Windows XP MCE 2005). The company has confirmed it has finally 'released to manufacturing' the third service pack to Windows XP - 7 years after the operating system's original release. via osnews.com microsoft > http://forums.microsoft.com/TechNet/ShowPo...3&SiteID=17

hi Mike, so it's all working now ? this is excellent ! did you use my new WIM file at all ? i'd like to know if you tested it and if it worked. the reason we used the vista drivers was because WDS used the Windows Vista DVD to create the boot.wim file (which gives us windows PE....) and that needed the vista driver not the XP driver. i actually live in Sweden, Europe and i'm happy to talk about this on the phone if you want or on MSN either way i'm glad things are working for you now, spread the word ! cheers anyweb

no that's not enough, you must import the wim into WDS by choosing 'add boot image' in the WDS gui in addition i think we've been using the wrong INF's all along, instead of using the windows xp ones we should be using the vista ones for windows PE.... so i've updated the WIM one last time to include the correct infs (i hope) sorry about this, but as I don't have an Optiplex 755 it's hard for me to test the theory please download this new WIM and test it, i'm very hopeful that it'll work here's what I did to put it together, C:\>"c:\Program Files\Windows AIK\Tools\PETools\copype.cmd" x86 c:\windowspe-x86 C:\windowspe-x86>Imagex /info "D:\remoteinstall\boot\x86\images\windows-noob_capture-(2).WIM" C:\windowspe-x86>Imagex /mountrw D:\remoteinstall\boot\x86\images\windows-noob_c apture-(2).WIM 1 c:\mount C:\windowspe-x86>peimg /inf="C:\dell\drivers\R162323\Vista32\*.inf" c:\mount C:\windowspe-x86>imagex /unmount /commit c:\mount the most important line above is this one C:\windowspe-x86>peimg /inf="C:\dell\drivers\R162323\Vista32\*.inf" c:\mount ok ? cheers anyweb

ok can you confirm thhat you disabled the wim in wds, then imported mine, then re-enabled it then pxe booted the optiplex 755 what happened then ?

Microsoft has finally pumped out Vista service pack one (SP1) in the remaining 31 languages as a manual download via its Windows Update site. Swedish download > http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details...;displaylang=sv Bulgarian download > http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details...4a-09146a0ba746 Danish download > http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details...4a-09146a0ba746

hi Mike, did you get a chance to test it yet ? cheers anyweb

ok i've added the other inf to the wim, and here it is again to test please test it and let me know are we getting anywhere... cheers anyweb

no problem, at least we know which inf doesnt work now, i'll add the other inf and re upload the wim for you to test ok ?

have you tried to import the image into WDS boot images ? (hint, right click and choose add boot image)

hi Mike i've now updated my wim file (the capture wim) with the driver for Dell Optiplex 755, please download it, add it into your WDS boot images and then tell me does it work for you, if it does work, then I will also make these changes to the deploy wim file. Please download the updated WIM from here (121mb in size) For your reference here are the commands I used to add the driver after disabling the WIM in WDS.

hi Mike the driver is correct, please let me try to update my boot.wim with the driver and supply you with that boot.wim file, i'd be very interested to see if that works as soon as i get the time to do this i will (soon) cheers anyweb

does your optiplex have a vpro sticker on the chassis ? if not maybe you need to be using the broadcom driver s can you check that please.. or verify what the nic is called in device manager cheers

the optiplex 755 came in a few different versions (vpro or not) so it could have an intel or broadcom nic, is yours an Optiplex 755 vpro ? what is the nic listed as in the device manager ? what driver did you attempt to update windows PE with ? the vista or xp version ? if i had one i'd test it here but i dont sorry.

ok mike i'll try and do a howto on adding drivers to a wds boot.wim used for DEPLOYING images, as i think this is where you have made a mistake if you can capture the image but cannot deploy the same image then we must update boot.wim for the DEPLOYMENT boot.wim if you are willing I can do a remote desktop session with you (time willing) if you want to try this then let me know cheers anyweb

Microsoft plans to make a key Internet Explorer default change to thwart attackers trying to hack into its Web browser. The software maker will enable DEP/NX by default in IE 8 when the browser is running on Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008, a major tweak aimed at mitigating browser-based vulnerabilities. DEP/NX (Data Execution Prevention/No Execute) is already available in IE 7, but it's turned off by default because of compatibility issues. via osnews.com

hi Mike i've tested capturing an XP pro sp2 image using WDS and in the process completely re-read (and slightly edited) the WDS capture guide I wrote. It successfully captures the image and stores it on my WDS server, I can then PXE boot the client back to the server and I can see the windows PE menu with options that are as follows:- if i then choose to deploy the image it will list the XP image I captured earlier, is this where your's fails, if not please specify... cheers anyweb

hi Ben i've tested this and it works fine for me (both XP images and Vista) cheers anyweb

ok you are obviously not injecting the network drivers properly do you have a link to a howto somewhere that you followed ?

hi Mike I wonder could this be related to your issue > http://forums.microsoft.com/TechNet/ShowPo...2&SiteID=17

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if you have just installed WDS via the WAIK then you will need to configure the WDS server. To do so you can click on Start/All Programs/Administrative Tools/Windows Deployment Services. You will most likely see the following screen To configure it using the wizard select your server in the left pane and right click it, choose configure server. a wizard will appear it may ask for the path of your RemoteInstall (previous RIS installation) The next screen is typically confusing, it says 'Windows Deployment Services must be configured to not listen on port 67 and DHCP option tag 60 (i've added bold)., so select the two unselected options before clicking next. Select your response type (I went with the default) and then click Finish. I then deselected 'add images' and clicked on finish again. once complete it should look like this (this is a mixed mode WDS server, running Windows 2003 sp1)