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The IE team seems to be gearing up for presenting their next generation web browser and they seem to be doing it in style. Veteran Microsoft observer, Ed Bott shared on twitter that he got a bunch of crayons with some indication that it came from the IE team. A few days back, they sent an IE3 t-shirt to a commenter. They’ve been sporting enough to send flowers for the IE6 funeral as well. Here are the contents of the package sent: In a blog post, the IE team has announced that they will be releasing IE9 beta on the 15th of September at Beauty of the Web event in San Fransico. The event is a closed event for hand picked developers, designers, bloggers and press. According to Ed Bott, Microsoft has registered beautyoftheweb.com which currently shows nothing. A new UI is expected, whether it’ll be Metro inspired or build on the Ribbon interface is anyone’s guess. via > http://thenextweb.com/microsoft/2010/08/12/ie9-beta-coming-on-september-15th/

hi Chris and welcome once you create a package and distribute it to a distribution point (dp) configmgr will create a 'copy' of that package in it's own special folders such as smspkgd$ and so on (changes name depending on the drive) if it's not even getting that far then nothing else will work so you need to fix it, does your computer account (machine account) have administrative access of your configmgr server ? check this snippet from your posted log try doing that and see do things change

assuming the Reporting Role is installed on your site server, go into the Reporting node, click on Reports and locate the following report All advertisements you can run that report by right clicking on it, choose Run, then when the results appear select the advertisement in question and drill further into it

have you tried drilling into the reports for the package in question it should reveal the details of why it's waiting dfs shares are not used by configmgr, if you want to replicate data you'll need to use configmgr to do it or manually do it using the preloadpkgonsite.exe program for that particular package.

thanks for posting the info so others may learn ! cheers niall

how are you trying to install the client exactly ? and did you create a Package from definition package for that client ? what version of the client is it ?

what dvd are you using for the image source ?

is UAC disabled ? why are you still using SMS 2003 ?

so do you want to emulate this only using mdt 2010 update 1 ? if so it shouldnt be that hard to do as the steps are mostly workarounds anyway, have you tried to duplicate it and what problems are you seeing, post log files if necessary

I wouldnt advertise to the all systems collection unless you REALLY know what you are doing, there's a great risk of installing your servers with XP or something odd if you make a mistake, so don't do it unless you are absolutely sure of what you are doing. in addition, you can hide advertisements from RAP, simply target them to a different os in your organisation, see the how can I password protect a TS post here and scroll down for details of that

you don't need it, it's nothing more than a customised unattend.xml file which you can Deploy 7 without,

if you restart the Windows Deployment Services service what happens ?

are you loading the mdt files package in a previous step, it contains that vbs file...

did you configure your boundaries, and did you check firewall settings ?

The System Center Configuration Manager team would like to announce that the following has been released and available for immediate download: Configuration Manager 2007 R3 Release Candidate (RC) The official Release Candidate for Configuration Manager 2007 R3 can be downloaded by navigating to http://connect.microsoft.com downloads section of the Configuration Manager 2007 Open Beta program. Please read the release notes, they are separate from the build and also located in the download section. Support and Feedback: - All registered Open Beta users can submit bugs and make product suggestions using the Feedback tools provided on Microsoft Connect. This feedback is triaged daily by members of the Product Group. It is your feedback that helps drive feature changes and improvements. See the help link on the ConfigMgr MSConnect homepage for more instructions. - Newsgroups for ConfigMgr07 R3 can be accessed on Microsoft Connect, they are a great way to post questions and receive general support for specific R3 related questions and answers. ConfigMgr07 R3 was announced at the 2010 Microsoft Management Summit by Brad Anderson during his keynote. Power management is at the core of the R3 release, it addresses the need that many organizations have to monitor and reduce the power consumption of their computers. ConfigMgr07 R3 Power Management leverages the power management features built into Windows to apply relevant and consistent settings to computers in the organization. There are three major components to power management in ConfigMgr07 R3: 1. Monitoring and Planning: Power Management collects information about computer usage and power settings for computers in the origination. Reports are provided to allow the administrator to analyze this data and determine optimal power management settings for computers. 2. Enforcement: Power management allows the administrator to create power plans which can be applied to collections of computers. These power plans configure Windows power management settings on computers, and different power plans can be configured for peak and non-peak working hours. 3. Compliance: After applying power plans to computers in the organization, the administrator can run reports to validate that power settings were correctly applied and to calculate power and carbon footprint savings across collections of computers. In addition to power management, ConfigMgr07 R3 will provide customers with enhanced scale and performance support (scale to 300K managed clients per hierarchy, Active Directory delta discovery, dynamic collection updates), as well as enablement of further capabilities for operating system deployment. A full list of the R3 features can be found on Microsoft Connect at the “What’s new in R3” post. Navigate to Microsoft Connect today and download the ConfigMgr07 R3 Release Candidate (RC) product. Please review the Release Notes before performing any installation and the help (chm) file for specific deployment and supportability guidance. If you experience any issues with the download or the ConfigMgr Microsoft Connect site please contact, sccmtap@microsoft.com Regards, The Configuration Manager Customer Team ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Microsoft respects your privacy. Please read our online Privacy Statement. You are receiving this email because you are a participant in a Microsoft Connect beta program. You can end your participation in a program at any time by visiting Your Dashboard (http://connect.microsoft.com/dashboard/) page and choosing 'quit' for that program. If you have signed up to be contacted about participating in new Microsoft Connect programs, surveys, and events, you will continue to receive those communications unless you unsubscribe by going to Your Profile (http://connect.microsoft.com/profile.aspx). To set your contact preferences for other Microsoft communications, see the communications preferences section of the Microsoft Privacy Statement. Alternatively, if you would prefer to no longer to be contacted by Microsoft Connect, send an email to mchelp@microsoft.com with 'UNSUBSCRIBE' in the subject line and we will unregister from Microsoft Connect all up. This is an unmonitored e-mail address, so do not reply to this message. Microsoft Corporation One Microsoft Way Redmond, WA 98052

did you remember to add the computername step to your new deploy task sequence did you check for spelling mistakes ?

yup it's possible in one task sequence, all you need is a nice HTA frontend and you are good to go, as regards computer association, you don't have to create an association, you can capture the state, and save it to a usb media and then using scripts offer the technician the option of restoring that later (in a refresh scenario) lots of ways of doing it, it's up to you to implement it, and once you have something that works please share

what you need then is hardlinking about there are guides here for that (and a webcast) good luck

the Deployment Guru Johan has done it with Ubuntu 8, see here > http://www.deployvista.com/Blog/JohanArwidmark/tabid/78/EntryID/65/language/en-US/Default.aspx

The Microsoft® Application Compatibility Toolkit (ACT) 5.6 enables software developers, independent software vendors (ISVs), and IT professionals who work in a corporate environment to determine, before deployment within the organization, whether their applications are compatible with a new version of the Windows® operating system. ACT also enables such individuals to determine how an update to the new version will affect their applications. You can use the ACT features to: * Verify your application's, device's, and computer's compatibility with a new version of the Windows operating system, including determining your risk assessment. * Verify a Windows update's compatibility, including determining your risk assessment. * Become involved in the ACT Community, including sharing your application assessment with other ACT users. * Test your applications for issues related to User Account Control (UAC) by using the Standard User Analyzer (SUA) tool. * Test your Web applications and Web sites for compatibility with new releases and security updates to Internet Explorer®, by using the Internet Explorer Compatibility Test Tool. In This Release Topic Name Description Using the Application Compatibility Toolkit (ACT) Includes in-depth information and procedures for use with the ACT, including configuring the ACT, collecting your data, analyzing your data, and testing and mitigating your compatibility issues. This section also includes walkthrough topics that provide step-by-step guidance for the top three ACT scenarios. These scenarios show you how to deploy a new operating system, apply a Windows update, and test and mitigate your issues by using the included development tools. Application Compatibility Toolkit Technical Reference Includes in-depth technical reference topics, written for the compatibility evaluators, the Microsoft® Application Compatibility Toolkit Data Collector (ACT-DC), the Microsoft Compatibility Exchange, the ACT Community, the Internet Explorer Compatibility Test Tool (IECTT), the Standard User Analyzer (SUA) tool, and the Setup Analysis Tool (SAT). Customer Support and Documentation Resources Includes references to additional product and documentation resources, such as applicable Web sites and product pages. It also includes customer support information, including Web sites and phone numbers for assistance. Troubleshooting ACT Includes topics that can help you solve issues that occur during ACT setup, and to help you solve possible issues due to running the User Account Control Compatibility Evaluator (UACCE), the Windows Compatibility Evaluator (WCE), and the Update Compatibility Evaluator (UCE). Software and Hardware Requirements for ACT 5.6 Includes information about the supported software and hardware required to run the Application Compatibility Toolkit (ACT) in your environment. This also includes special considerations that are required if you intend to use the UCE, the SAT, or the Compatibility Administrator tools. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc722367%28WS.10%29.aspx

can you describe the steps you are taking? any errors that are obvious in your site status component logs ?

no need for any hyperv files, just make sure your hyperv VM has the network card set as 'legacy network card' cheers

are you doing this in SCCM or purely in MDT 2010 ? sounds like you need network drivers in boot.wim, did you add any ? enable F8 command prompt support in your boot wim to find out

Microsoft's business strategies were described at the company's Financial Analyst Meeting on Thursday. The talks by five Microsoft executives, including Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer, came on the heels of the company's positive fourth-quarter earnings. Last week, Microsoft announced revenue of $16 billion for the quarter. Peter Klein, Microsoft's chief financial officer, said at the time that all of Microsoft's business segments showed "double-digit growth," quarter over quarter. The number-crunching crowd of financial analysts attending Microsoft's annual event may have preferred seeing spreadsheets and graphs. Instead, they got PowerPoint slides illustrating Microsoft's general vision in the enterprise and consumer markets. That vision encompassed Microsoft's Windows Azure cloud computing platform, Windows operating system success and consumer products. Ballmer Lays Out Consumer Strategy During Ballmer's talk, the Windows Phone 7 operating system was demonstrated running on an unidentified prototype device by Augusto Valdez, senior product manager for Windows Phone 7. Valdez showed off the mobile integration of the Microsoft Bing search engine, which provides search and mapping services based on the user's location. He said that the device was capable of running multiple Microsoft Exchange accounts on one phone. Brad Brooks, CVP for Windows consumer marketing, showed how Windows 7-based PCs and Windows Phone 7 smartphones will be able to tap into a "personal cloud." Data can be shared across those devices using Windows Sync technology and the Windows Live SkyDrive cloud-based storage space. This data-sharing capability will be available "starting this fall," Brooks said. "And by Q3 a vast majority of all PCs that ship to consumers will have this pre-installed so people will have this personal cloud experience as part of their Windows 7 experience right out of the box, and of course that will come with every Windows Phone 7 as well," Brooks said, according to a transcript. Ballmer focused his talk on the consumer side of Microsoft's business since it is "very much on the minds of [Microsoft's] shareholders." The company's consumer products include Xbox gaming consoles, Bing search, Microsoft Office, the Windows operating system and Windows Phone. Microsoft's mobile strategy has received much criticism over the years, particularly with regard to meeting the competition in the smartphone and tablet markets. However, Ballmer said that Microsoft has had Windows 7 on tablets and slate devices "for a number of years." He noted Apple's progress in putting out popular products and suggested that Microsoft would rise to the challenge. "Just like we had to make things happen on netbooks, we've got to make things happen with Windows 7 on slates," Ballmer said. "And we are in the process of doing that as we speak. We're working with our hardware partners; we're tuning Windows 7 to new slate hardware designs that they're bringing them to market." He later referred to devices from Samsung, HTC and LG that are expected to "come to market this fall," but it wasn't clear whether he was talking about tablets or smartphones (or both). Microsoft expects to get "a boost" in 2011 when Intel rolls out a low-power processor to market code-named "Oak Trail," Ballmer said. Oak Trail is an Intel Atom-based processor for tablets that's expected to use half the power of an Atom chip. It's designed to work with Windows 7, MeeGo and Google operating systems, according to Intel. In a Q&A session with the financial analysts, Ballmer would not be pinned down on when Windows phones or tablets would hit the market. "We'll be in the market as soon as we can," he said. He did reveal a bit about Microsoft's thinking on executing its product plans, noting that "there is no way we will let hardware be an impediment." Ballmer revealed that Microsoft had actually designed the hardware for Windows phones for its partners. Turner Extols Microsoft's Enterprise Strengths Kevin Turner, Microsoft's chief operating officer, described the company's advantages in the enterprise space. He said that 70 percent of Microsoft's cloud platform wins in its fourth quarter represented new business, with Microsoft gaining customers from IBM (Lotus Notes) and Novell (e-mail). He cited "limitations" to Amazon's cloud service in that it requires the customer to maintain virtual machines. He touted Windows Azure, saying that the capabilities of Google's and Salesforce.com's cloud platforms fall short by comparison. Microsoft has an edge over VMware because "they don't run their own datacenters," Turner said. The introduction of Windows 7 to the market gave Microsoft a 2.7-point advantage over Apple in terms of laptop attachments in the U.S. market, Turner claimed. Microsoft sells "just under eight copies per second [of Windows 7] since we launched this product in October 22," he said. Turner also claimed that Windows Server has been showing its highest gains over Linux in the last three years. Microsoft hopes to grab database market share when Oracle launches its Fusion product, which is rumored to happen this fall, Turner said. He touted the "self-service" business intelligence capabilities of SQL Server 2008 R2. In 2011, Microsoft expects to launch the Parallel Data Warehouse version of that product, which will enable "100-terabyte" data warehouses. On the enterprise collaboration front, Microsoft is challenging Cisco Systems with the Microsoft Office Communications Server product. Turner said that Microsoft's Live Meeting service is offered for "a third of the price of [Cisco's] WebEx" videoconferencing solution. In addition to Turner and Ballmer's talks, the event featured presentations by Bill Koefoed, general manager of investor relations, Craig Mundie, chief research strategy officer, and Peter Klein, chief financial officer. Recorded video and print transcripts are available at the Microsoft investor relations Web page here. via > http://mcpmag.com/articles/2010/07/29/ballmer-outlines-mobile-strategy-at-microsoft-event.aspx?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=windows-noob.com

here's a sample Task Sequence to see it in action, simply import the XML file into SCCM 2007 sp2 (with MDT 2010 integrated) and you are nearly ready to go, you will have to edit the task sequence to point to your packages, one package is the prompt for password containing the original wsf file, the second package is your mdt files package (which contains a subfolder in scripts called TS Password, which in turn contains the shutdown.wsf script) Prompt For Password.xml In my example task sequence I install an application (microsoft security essentials) after successful password completion, however you could install an entire OS or more as you would with any task sequence, it's up to you. Here's a description of the Task Sequence Steps:- Restart to Windows PE This does a check in the options tab to see if we are in WinPE, if not, it restarts the computer into WinPE so you will need to attach a boot image to this Task Sequence. The reason for this check is that we cannot interact with the user on the desktop in Windows itself, only in WinPE. The options we set are: This group/step will run if the following conditions are met: If All the conditions are true: Task Sequence Variable _SMSTSinWInPE equals False Prompt For Password This step runs the actual promptforpassword.wsf script directly from the package we put it in, you could clean this up even more by placing the script in the mdtfiles/scripts/ts password folder (more on that later). I've also got yet another check in here (not needed if you include the previous step) to see that we are in WinPE (see the options tab). This script returns a value for the AllowOSDBuild variable, either YES or NO depending on whether you enter the password correctly or not. Use Toolkit Package This step loads the MDT Files package (needed for the next step) and you should know by now that we have copied the TS Password folder containing shutdown.wsf to the scripts sub directory of the MDT Files package. Shutdown This step executes the script called shutdown.wsf contained in the TS Password subfolder (in the scripts directory of MDT Files package). This script will shutdown the computer if: * AllowOSDBuild=NO or * If you click on Cancel at the password prompt screen. Below is a copy of the Shutdown Step options Rest of Task Sequence If the user enters the correct password the the Rest of the Task sequence steps will be ran as normal, in this example I install an application after rebooting back into Windows, (you can put whatever you want here, like installing an OS or migrating from XP to 7 or whatever !).