Deploy Windows 7

[ChandanOmkar]

Hi Niall, Have you checked the log.

[matty3021]

Hi,

 

Your post is very helpful and im so close to getting this working, i know have my PC booteing to PXE but it seems to display the following every time

 

:angry:TFTP Download: smsboot\x64\abortpxe.com

 

And then aborts the pxe bootup. I have tried editing the registry key as described in other posts, cleared the last PXE advertisement and adding a membership rule to the collection. I have also restarted the WDS service. None of these are working and i'm getting very very annoyed by it all now :angry:

 

Any help would be massively appreciated.

 

Thanks

[qaisar]

Hi

I just setup my lab environment as follows;

 

Windows 2008 Server SP2 (domain controller, isolated network...not connected to the internet)

SCCM 2007 SP2, SQL 2005 SP3, WSUS 3.0 SP2 (also on the same server)

Windows XP Pro SP2

Windows Vista Bus SP2

 

As far as I can tell, it is a fully functional SCCM environment.

 

I am going through the "Build and Capture" part of Windows 7 deployment and I am stuck at the "Browse and pick your Config Client Installation from definition"....when I click "browse" I do not see and "Client Installation" package.

What am I missing, any help is appreciated......

 

regards

[anyweb]

select Microsoft as the manufacturer, do you see it then ?

 

if not post a screenshot of what you see

[qaisar]

select Microsoft as the manufacturer, do you see it then ?

 

if not post a screenshot of what you see

 

 

I see an empty box....attached is the screenshot....thanks

[Eswar Koneti]

Do you have config mgr client package ? if not ,please create new package.

[Eswar Koneti]

Hi,

 

Your post is very helpful and im so close to getting this working, i know have my PC booteing to PXE but it seems to display the following every time

 

:angry:TFTP Download: smsboot\x64\abortpxe.com

 

And then aborts the pxe bootup. I have tried editing the registry key as described in other posts, cleared the last PXE advertisement and adding a membership rule to the collection. I have also restarted the WDS service. None of these are working and i'm getting very very annoyed by it all now

 

Any help would be massively appreciated.

 

Thanks

 

I have seen this error when i work in my LAb with Virtual PC's .when My VPC bootsup ,i get pxeboot aborted error.I go to SCCM console and clear the last PXe,tried booting again ,it works.But sometimes it annoyes,so what i did was,taken a new VPC and boot up,it work Great actually! Btw ,are you trying in virtual or Physical machine?

[Eswar Koneti]

Hi Niall, Have you checked the log.

 

hi,

could not find sufficient information from the log file ? is this issue is resolved now ? if not ,could you please send the TS?

[qaisar]

Do you have config mgr client package ? if not ,please create new package.

 

That was it...thanks Eswar

Now I am at the PXE boot step.

My Server is not DHCP....all the clients and server have static IP addresses. I have added the "ConfigMgr PXE service point" role on the SCCM server but when I reboot a client PC to PXE boot I get the following at DOS prompt

 

"Client MAC Address xx xx xx xx xx xx"

"DHCP .......|"

 

then after 15-20 seconds I get this

 

"PXE-E51: No DHCP or proxyDHCP offers were received"

"PXE-M0F: Exiting Intel Boot Agent"

 

thanks

[qaisar]

Well, I did not want to setup DHCP on my Server 2008 but I guess there is no other option. I just configured the 66 and 67 Scope option and client is at least getting the IP address (at PXE boot).....now it is at the "TFTP...." prompt....lets see how that goes

 

thanks

[qaisar]

Well, I did not want to setup DHCP on my Server 2008 but I guess there is no other option. I just configured the 66 and 67 Scope option and client is at least getting the IP address (at PXE boot).....now it is at the "TFTP...." prompt....lets see how that goes

 

thanks

 

Hi

 

I was able to fix the PXE issue (I needed to add/configure the WDS role on server 2008 and couple of other things like add the computer account to the collection, update the distribution point etc)

 

Now I am stuck at the "Running action: Setup Windows and ConfigMgr..." (which is right after the C: drive gets formatted). I am getting the following error:

 

Task Sequence: Build and Capture Win 7 has failed with the error code 0x80004005........

 

I looked at the task sequence (in the Config Mgr Console) and did not see anything that could cause this. However I do not have any drivers added in the "Drivers" and "Driver Packages" nodes in SCCM. I am not sure if that is what is causing the error or not. The reference computer is IBM Lenovo ThinkCentre m55p.

 

Any help is appreciated...

[Eswar Koneti]

Hi

 

I was able to fix the PXE issue (I needed to add/configure the WDS role on server 2008 and couple of other things like add the computer account to the collection, update the distribution point etc)

 

Now I am stuck at the "Running action: Setup Windows and ConfigMgr..." (which is right after the C: drive gets formatted). I am getting the following error:

 

Task Sequence: Build and Capture Win 7 has failed with the error code 0x80004005........

 

I looked at the task sequence (in the Config Mgr Console) and did not see anything that could cause this. However I do not have any drivers added in the "Drivers" and "Driver Packages" nodes in SCCM. I am not sure if that is what is causing the error or not. The reference computer is IBM Lenovo ThinkCentre m55p.

 

Any help is appreciated...

 

Are you running the TS on a virtual MAchine or Physical machine? if it is on physical machine,make sure you have NIC drivers avilable.please Post the smsts.log to to get more information.Also,you can monitor the status of the particular TS advertisement with report ID :144 (i.e http://prodscm/SMSRe...vertID=KBS20007) You need to replace the ADV ID (KBS20007) here.

[qaisar]

Are you running the TS on a virtual MAchine or Physical machine? if it is on physical machine,make sure you have NIC drivers avilable.please Post the smsts.log to to get more information.Also,you can monitor the status of the particular TS advertisement with report ID :144 (i.e http://prodscm/SMSRe...vertID=KBS20007) You need to replace the ADV ID (KBS20007) here.

 

Hi

It is a physical machine.....and I just added the NIC drivers in "Drivers" node of SCCM and have not tried the Image capture yet. I am assuming that smsts.log file is going to be on the client PC. If correct then I will have to use some utility like BartPE to access the C: drive since the there is no OS on the PC.

 

I am getting "Server error in application Default Website/SMSReporting_SiteCode) so that is why I cannot look at the reports but I did find some errors (posted below) in the Advertisement Status:

 

 

Msg ID: 11170

Source: SMS Client

Comp: Task Sequence Manager

 

The task sequence manager could not successfully complete execution of the task sequence. A failure exit code of 16389 was returned.

 

Package ID : CLM00005

Advertisement ID : CLM20000

Client SMS Unique ID : GUID:761D1683-AB2C-4A0D-B87E-BCF0FE7392DF

 

Msg ID: 11141

Comp: Task Sequence Engine

 

 

The task sequence execution engine failed execution of a task sequence. The operating system reported error 2147500037: Unspecified error

 

Package ID : CLM00005

Advertisement ID : CLM20000

Client SMS Unique ID : GUID:761D1683-AB2C-4A0D-B87E-BCF0FE7392DF

Unknown Machine : 0

MAC Addresses : 00:1F:D0:48:13:59

SMBIOS ID : 2A6B3632-42EF-CC3D-8BB8-CB13DB6E2795

 

Msg ID: 11135

Comp: Task Sequence Engine

 

The task sequence execution engine failed executing the action (Setup windows and ConfigMgr) in the group (Build the Reference Machine) with the error code 2147500037

Action output: ly saved configuration information to C:\_SMSTaskSequence\unattend.xml

Successfully initialized driver information

Command line for extension .EXE is "%1" %*

Set command line: "\\SCCMTEST1.TEST.COM\SMSPKGD$\CLM00003\SOURCES\SETUP.EXE" "/unattend:C:\_SMSTaskSequence\unattend.xml" /noreboot

Executing command line: "\\SCCMTEST1.TEST.COM\SMSPKGD$\CLM00003\SOURCES\SETUP.EXE" "/unattend:C:\_SMSTaskSequence\unattend.xml" /noreboot

Process completed with exit code 31

Windows Setup completed with exit code 31

Entering ReleaseSource() for \\SCCMTEST1.TEST.COM\SMSPKGD$\CLM00003reference count 1 for the source \\SCCMTEST1.TEST.COM\SMSPKGD$\CLM00003\ before releasing

Released the resolved source \\SCCMTEST1.TEST.COM\SMSPKGD$\CLM00003exitCode == 0, HRESULT=80004005 (e:\nts_sms_fre\sms\client\osdeployment\setupwindows\setupwindows.cpp,440)

setup.run(), HRESULT=80004005 (e:\nts_sms_fre\sms\client\osdeployment\setupwindows\setupwindows.cpp,1707)

Exiting with code 0x80004005

Windows setup failed, code 31. The operating system reported error 2147500037: Unspecified error

 

Package ID : CLM00005

Advertisement ID : CLM20000

Client SMS Unique ID : GUID:761D1683-AB2C-4A0D-B87E-BCF0FE7392DF

Unknown Machine : 0

MAC Addresses : 00:1F:D0:48:13:59

SMBIOS ID : 2A6B3632-42EF-CC3D-8BB8-CB13DB6E2795

[anyweb]

if you leave the Product key blank in the Task Sequence does it work then ?

[qaisar]

if you leave the Product key blank in the Task Sequence does it work then ?

 

Thanks anyweb

By removing the product key I was able get as far as "Capture the reference computer" and then I got ".....unable to capture 0x8007000g error....more detail is below....

 

I rebooted the computer thinking it would try the capture again but it did not, I got the "Windows 7 Professional" window with "Country or region, Time and currency....." window. The \\sccmtest1\pkgs share has full share permissions (and Security Permissions) for the domain\administrator account and Everyone Read. I added domain\administrator account when I setup the Capture and Deploy TS.

 

So, question is at this point how do i capture the WIM file......thanks

 

BTW, from which error code (from my previous post) did you find out that I was using a product key?

 

********************************************************************************************************

Msg ID: 11141

 

The task sequence execution engine failed execution of a task sequence. The operating system reported error 2147942405: Access is denied.

 

 

Msg ID: 11135

 

The task sequence execution engine failed executing the action (Capture the Reference Machine) in the group (Capture the Reference Machine) with the error code 2147942405

Action output: sprep state set to IMAGE_STATE_GENERALIZE_RESEAL_TO_OOBE

Sysprep.exe has marked the OS as generalized for deployment.

Boot volume is C:Volume D:\ will not be captured: not a fixed hard drive

Volume X:\ will not be captured: not a fixed hard drive

Preparing system for capture...

Successfully loaded the BCD boot system

Connection request for "\\sccmtest1\pkgs"

Connecting to "\\sccmtest1\pkgs"

Successfully connected to "\\sccmtest1\pkgs"

Creating image file \\sccmtest1\pkgs\capture

m_hImageFile= WIMCreateFile( const_cast<LPWSTR>(m_sImageFileName.c_str()), WIM_GENERIC_WRITE, WIM_CREATE_ALWAYS, 0, WIM_COMPRESS_LZX, NULL), HRESULT=80070005 (e:\nts_sms_fre\sms\framework\tscore\wimfile.cpp,244)

ImageFile.Create(sCaptureDestination), HRESULT=80070005 (e:\nts_sms_fre\sms\client\osdeployment\capturesystemimage\capturesystemimage.cpp,883)

Finished with error code 0x80070005

Unloading offline SOFTWARE registry hive

Unloading offline SYSTEM registry hive

Unable to create the image file (0x80070005). The operating system reported error 2147942405: Access is denied.

[qaisar]

I gave the "Everyone" group full permissions (Share/NTFS) on the \\sccmtest1\pkgs share and started the Build & Capture process all over but I got the same error

 

Task Sequence: Build and Capture Windows 7 has failed with error code 0x80070005................

 

Help please !!!

[jamitupya]

can you attach your log?

[qaisar]

can you attach your log?

 

Here you go....thanks

smsts-20100226-090711.log

[jamitupya]

If you haven't enabled F8 support do so by ( Clicking here )

 

Then press f8 to bring up your command prompt

see if you can ping your server?

by your logs is is returning a host not found which looks more like a dns issue.

 

CLibSMSMessageWinHttpTransport::Send: URL: SCCMTEST1.TEST.COM:87 CCM_POST /ccm_system/request

Error. Received 0x80072ee7 from WinHttpSendRequest.

unknown host (gethostbyname failed)

 

 

check that is working...

also, i suggest disabling NAP in your lab until you get it working

[qaisar]

I am able to ping the server SCCMTEST1 (when in F8)

When I try to use this command;

net use h: \\sccmtest1\pkgs

it prompts for username and password, I think it should not prompt for credentials (although after I provide the credentials it maps the drive).

I checked my Task Sequence and I have the correct user name (test.com\administrator and I re-typed the password like several times).

So what is confusing to me is that from the start of this Build & Capture process, it connects to the server, gets the Task Sequence, gets boot image, gets Windows 7 OS files, installs the config manager client using the same credentials.....but fails right at "Capture" and the problem seems to be the user credentials. :angry:

[qaisar]

I found what the problem was.

 

In the "Build and Capture Task Sequence" under the "Capture the Reference Machine", the Destinatation had the correct path but I did not include the file name like "capture.wim".....I was under the impression that the file will be created during the Capture process....but I was wrong.....anyhow I have a capture.wim file and now I am moving to the next section "Deploy....."

 

thanks for all your help guys

[ScriptingIT]

I really just signed in to say thanks for sharing all that effort. I've read loads of your posts now and followed various guides. Makes me think I should be contributing more also.

I might give that more of a go here. So thanks again and really well done.

[ChrZZ]

Step 8. PXE boot the newly added Windows 7 client

 

finally it will reboot again and start the computer with your sysprepped settings

 

 

and the Build and Capture is now complete

 

 

Is it possible to add after the image capture that the machine will do a "legal" shutdown? I mean, a run command line with "shutdown -s" will produce an error, since the TS will be aborted by the shutdown. Is it possible to make a shutdown that doesn't produce an error as the last step in the TS?

 

I want this option because we're doing auto-generating images on VMware machines, and want them to power automatically (shutdown) of after a image capture, and not restart into the new windows installation. This is because when we want to auto-generate a new image, we can advertise with wake-on-lan, and run the sequence again with ease.

[Wizard]

its part of the new waik for windows 7

 

that is also part of the RC so if you install sp2 rc youäll have the new WAIK

 

My SCCM doesn't have those boot options either and I integrated MDT 2010 with it. Here is a screenshot of my version. What am I missing?

[MarcoX]

I have started working with SCCM. I am facing a problem. After Starting the Task Sequence (Windows is Starting up) the screen shot is mentioned below, the system gets restarted. It is not moving to formatting disk, as per mentioned in this site.

Hey Niall Please help.

 

 

 

i'm facing exactly same probleme,after "Starting WInPE" , Computer reboot, deployement doesnt start...

I added the good NIC Driver (broadcom)..

 

Anyweb, said to check the SMSTS.log from the clients, but.....my client is..EMPTY ! taht why i want deploy it !! it's an unknow computers, with any OS intalled on it..

 

so which .log i can check on the server to find any clue about this problem ?