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The word on the street is that Microsoft is going to be showing off some gear in both London and New York City on October 11th. So far we’ve been able to confirm that it’s a bunch of products, and while the company isn’t specifically confirming that it’s going to show off Windows Phone 7, it does list Windows Phone 7 along with a bunch of other products, when talking about how the company is releasing a bunch of gear this holiday season. Earlier this month I wrote about my experience with Windows Phone 7. In short, it’s a nice interface but I’m still not sure why someone would switch to Windows Phone 7 or even choose it over iPhone, Android or BlackBerry at this stage. Also, it appears that even though Microsoft is launching Windows Phone 7 in Europe first, the company is already set to launch with AT&T, according to the video below that SlashGear dug up. If you haven’t seen it, it’s definitely worth watching since it shows you how your current phone requires you to miss life’s moments–in a very comical way. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvV6_t3crlk via > http://www.zdnet.com/blog/mobile-gadgeteer/windows-phone-7-to-be-unleashed-october-11th/3924?tag=mantle_skin;content

It’s been rumored for a while now that Microsoft was going to pull the plug on the blogging platform component of Windows Live (known as Windows Live Spaces). On September 27, company officials made that decision official and public. Microsoft officials announced that Microsoft is partnering with Wordpress to try to help users who’ve set up Windows Live blogs using Spaces to move to the Wordpress platform. At the TechCrunch Disrupt conference, Microsoft and WordPress announced that WordPress is becoming “the default blogging platform of choice for all new and existing Windows Live customers.” Microsoft officials promised the Windows Live Spaces migration to WordPress.com — which will be available as of today, September 27, will be “automated and easy, ensuring the movement of blog content, integrated media, comments and links is simple.” The actual mechanism for moving Spaces blogs over to WordPress blogs is an importer created by WordPress. Going forward, new Windows Live users also will be offered a WordPress.com blog if/when they choose to create a new blog. Windows Live Spaces users will have six months to move off the Spaces platform to WordPress or some other alternative. I’ve asked Microsoft what will happen to their blogs if they don’t do so. No word back so far. Update: Here are a couple of answers from a Microsoft spokesperson to my “what if” questions: Q: What if user doesn’t make the six-month transition cutoff? Is his/her Spaces blog automatically turned into a Wordpress blog? A: There will be several communications to Spaces users in the six months to prompt them to migrate their content to Wordpress or save their content to their PC. If they don’t take either action during the six months, their content will be removed when Spaces is decommissioned. Q: What if a user wants to use something other than WordPress. Will he/she have an option and any kind of migration tools from Microsoft? A: If Spaces users chose not to migrate to WordPress.com, they can save their content and then post to the blogging platform of their choice. WordPress officials noted that they’ve added support for Messenger Connect as a Publicize option on WordPress, “which enables you to automatically share updates to your WordPress.com blog with your friends who use Windows Live Messenger.” Slowly, but surely, the family of the many services offered under the “Windows Live” banner is getting smaller and more definable. Update 2: For those worried about the future of Microsoft’s Windows Live Writer blogging tool/app, Microsoft officials say there is no plan to phase it out and it will remain part of the Windows Live family. via > http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsoft-makes-it-official-windows-live-is-no-longer-a-blogging-platform/7487?tag=mantle_skin;content

if you disable firewalls on both boxes does it help ? as a test

good question, how about this http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/126348-something-to-ask/

is your dhcp server on a different server to the wds server ? if so have you configured any dhcp server scope options ? 66/67 ?

i would be using the Enterprise version in that case, pls test it and confirm

well as you can see from the log, that is exactly what it's complaining about so you need to find out why, if you repeat the process and at the time of the failure bring up a command prompt, does ipconfig show you an ip address ?

ok then, is there any particular reason you are using Windows 7 professional ? i would rather see you test this on Windows 7 Enterprise, I think you'll see the desired result with that version

if you download a free tool called tsenv2 you can see all the variables that SCCM uses in WinPE http://www.1e.com/downloads/freetools/index.aspx what are you planning on doing exactly ? some type of frontend for your deployments ? you can do that using variables and a frontend HTA

here's your error so is the boot image assigned to your task sequence distributed to dps ?

are you deploying win7 using SCCM ?? did you configure the timezone value in your task sequence ?

i think the built in help explains it quite well: so based on the above, did you browse for any folder on the dp package or locally ? and if local, did it exist on the target computer ?

does this give you any ideas (scroll to bottom of thread) http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/configmgrosd/thread/14e7ec38-5354-4108-91a9-cfa12c3e21d7

yikes that sucks.... and yes it's sounds like you need a db restored unless someone else has some bright ideas (back it the current one first), i haven't come across that specific problem before so please research further before taking that drastic action

Step 2. Configure SQL Server Reporting Services User permissions Now that we've installed the new Roles we need to configure security settings in SQL Server Reporting Services User permissions in order to see the reports in vNext otherwise we will be presented with No Items Found. Click on the start menu and right click on Internet Explorer, choose Run As Administrator, answer Yes to the UAC prompt. when Internet Explorer loads, browse to http://vnext/reports and when the Reports Manager window appears click on the Properties link Click on New Role Assignment to add some users Enter ReportsUser in the Group or UserName field and select All Roles and click OK repeat the above for the SMSadmin user go back into the vNext Console, and refresh the Reports node, you should now see all the reports available. don't forget to add the ReportsUser to your security login for the ReportServer and SMS_V01 databases and Once done, verify the reports work by running a report, such as All Collections, right click on the Report, choose Run the report should look similar to this, if you don't see the report verify you added ReportsUser to the database login/security in SQL.

yes it's possible and here's one way of doing it(there are more, just up to you to get creative with how to accomplish it, but you could use registry settings and active directory checks to accomplish it)

yes no problem, just direct the drivers to the right hardware manufacturer via wmi queries like so

i didn't do that part yet, due to lack of time, but i'll try and re-focus...

sccm can do it sure, just integrate mdt into configmgr and utilise mdt's features from within SCCM, you can create a frontend HTA which can ask this and set corresponding variables, these variables will be checked for in your dynamic task sequence which will or will not install software depending on those variables. and yes you can reimage a computer that is already in sccm by advertising the task sequence to whatever collection you wish (be careful in testing this !) for example All Systems or another collection where you know the computers are in eg: All Windows XP systems however you must get clever with it and change the task sequence properties such that it will only run on an OS that is NOT PRESENT in your organisation, that way it will never appear in RAP but will be available via cd/dvd/usb or PXE boot. I explain this concept here > http://www.windows-noob.com/forums/index.php?/topic/2336-password-protect-a-task-sequence/

MDT is not needed but is a nice add-on in terms of additional functionality within your task sequences for OSD in SCCM, the WAIK is builtin to SCCM 2007 SP2 and it contains tools such as Microsoft Windows SIM for editing unattend.xml files etc, but not needed for general OSD usage, the sccm guides here on windows-noob will show you when and how to use the features good luck, and welcome ! cheers niall

have you checked your firewall settings ? and your boundaries ?

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thanks for the kind words the wds service has a cache which tends to 'store' things related to pxe boots, this can be set via the registry, so restarting the WDS service is a test to see if it's worth setting this value, so please test it

it wouldn't hurt to try, what values have you configured so far ? have you configured any dhcp server options ?

do you mean your Network Access Account as provided in the computer client agent ? or ?