steves85

Thankyou for your responses. I eventually went with vmware just for testing purposes. The reason I could not boot to pe was the startup screen was so fast I was unable to press ESC to bring up the boot menu. I edited the vmx file to make the bios boot delay longer.

Hi, I am trying to create a wim file using sysprep and imagex. However when it comes time to boot into windows pe on my virtual machine, i cannot do this. I have tried buring the pe file to an ISO and booting the vm from this, but no joy. What is the best way to do this? Thanks

Hi Peter, Like I said im not much of a SQL person, but I believe I do have rights. Its a test environment so I just use the domain admin account of "Administrator". I added the SCCM2012 machine account to the SQL local admins. I did use an alternate method to get SCCM 2012 going, and that was to have SQL and SCCM 2012 on the same machine. After a few tweaks with SQL Server service this started working.

Hi, Having just downloaded the 2012 RC I was keen to get stuck into having a poke around. I am getting stuck during installation however. I get this error message during the Database Information stage. "Setup is unable to connect to SQL Server with the connection information provided. Verify the following: - The SQL Server and instance names are entered correctly - The specified SQL Server instance is not configured to use dynamic ports - If a firewall is enabled on the SQL server, inbound rules exist to allow connections to correct ports - The account used to run Setup has Permissions to connect to the specified SQL Server Instance" My setup is SCCM 2012 and SQL 2008 SP2 on seperate computers. I have entered the correct FQDN to the SQL server. I left default instance blank. My DB name will be CM_101. I have turned off my firewalls on both computers. I can ping the computers successfully. Im not much of a SQL gooroo so not sure why its not working with the default settings. I have a separate server running SCCM 2007 fine. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Steve