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what you are seeing is a 'normal' Optional PXE boot menu, if you press F12 (as you see at the bottom of the screen) when it appears, do you then see Windows PE loading and a task sequence (or task sequences menu) kick off ?

Microsoft has revealed its new social media tool called Spindex. The idea is that the new tool will be able to take all of your social media connections and display them on one page from popular services like Twitter, Facebook, Bing, and soon to be many more services. From Spindex’s landing page, “Spindex allows you to access and interact with your social networks, see trends from your friends, and see related info from Bing on literally everything you click on. Spindex proactively finds useful articles and information based on your interest in your friends’ messages and comments. It lets you find out more about the topics that your friends and feeds are talking about in one click - so you can jump into the conversation. Make sense of your social overload, open your personalized Spindex page, and find out at a glance what topics are hot in your social world. You can also keep track of the things you are remembering via Evernote - right inside of your Spindex page. Spindex is not just a social reader – as you browse your friends’ updates, Spindex continually suggests related content from Bing – giving you better insight into the topics and trends spinning around you” The idea, in a nut shell, will combine all of your favorite social media websites and display them on a single page. This should save you time and hopefully give you better access to all of your favorite websites. While the service seems promising, implementation will be key to keeping the flood of information organized. The service is being rolled out to only those who attend the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, but will be rolled out later to the general public. via > http://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-unveils-spindex-a-new-social-media-tool

When we started planning IE9, we recognized the need for a better feedback loop with developers. The developer community was clear that they wanted pre-release builds of the browser platform in a consistent rhythm, with a good feedback mechanism. Seven weeks ago at the MIX Conference, we released the first IE9 Platform Preview. We committed to updating the Preview approximately every eight weeks. Today, we’re releasing the second Platform Preview of Internet Explorer 9, available now at www.IETestDrive.com. Today’s release builds on the first Platform Preview, delivering improvements to IE9’s performance, support for standards, and hardware acceleration of HTML5. We’ve also updated the test drive site with a new set of developer samples to show what developers can do with GPU-powered HTML5. As part of our commitment to enabling developers to use the Same Markup – the same HTML, CSS, and script – on the web, we have contributed many new tests to the W3C for HTML5, as well as CSS3 Media Queries and DOM. The Developer Tools in this preview include some new features to make finding and fixing markup issues easier. Developers should expect much more from browsers in order to deliver the graphically rich, interactive applications that HTML5 will enable. In IE9, our goal is to provide professional-grade, modern HTML5 support on top of modern hardware through Windows. The IE9 Platform Preview and the samples at the test drive site show the significant performance gains that web pages enjoy when a browser takes full advantage of the PC’s hardware capabilities through the operating system. Performance and GPU-Powered HTML5 With the second Platform Preview we continue to improve IE9’s performance and maintain our focus on real-world sites and hardware acceleration. We examined the patterns in use across many websites and frameworks to identify which changes in the browser make actual sites faster. The first chart here, for example, shows how different subsystems contribute to the performance of different real-world sites. The JavaScript engine is one of several important subsystems. Here’s a chart of IE9 performance on one particular industry benchmark for JavaScript performance, the Webkit Sunspider test: more > http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2010/05/05/html5-and-same-markup-second-ie9-platform-preview-available-for-developers.aspx

(Pardon the interruption on the Dynamic Memory blogs, but I was busy at MMS 2010 and needed to blog this content. I'll have more on DM soon.) Virtualization Nation, We just wrapped up Microsoft Management Summit 2010 (MMS) in Las Vegas. MMS is the premier event of the year for deep technical information and training on the latest IT Management solutions from Microsoft, Partners, and Industry Experts. MMS 2010 was a huge success from a number of standpoints. Starting with sold out attendance (and attendance was way up from last year), compelling keynotes from Bob Muglia and Brad Anderson to the release of new products including: * System Center Essentials 2010 * System Center Data Protection Manager 2010 * System Center Service Manager 2010 ...there was something for everyone. Furthermore, many folks were very pleased to learn that Opalis (our datacenter orchestration and automation platform) was joining the System Center family. Why is this a big deal? Well, for our customers who have purchased the System Center Datacenter Suite license it means that Opalis is now included in the System Center Suite. That's customer focus. You can find out more about Opalis here. There was a lot to experience at MMS, but I'd like to focus on something you may or may not have heard about... MMS 2010 Labs One of the most popular activities at MMS are the MMS Labs. The MMS Labs are very busy and constantly booked. These advanced, usually multi-server, labs are created and configured to walk IT professionals through a variety of tasks such as: * Introducing new products (Service Manager Labs were very popular this year) * Exploring new product features * Advanced topics, automation, best practices, tips and tricks * and much more... In past MMS events, virtualization has been used throughout in a variety of ways and to varying degrees, but this year the team decided to move to an entirely Hyper-V infrastructure. In short: >> ALL OF THE MMS 2010 LABS WERE VIRTUALIZED USING WINDOWS SERVER 2008 R2 HYPER-V AND MANAGED VIA SYSTEM CENTER << .and the results in terms of manageability, flexibility, power usage, shipping costs and more are staggering. What do I means, let's start with this factoid: >> The MMS 2010 Labs delivered ~40,000 Hyper-V VMs for ~80 different labs in 5 days on just 41 physical servers << No, that's not a typo, that's just the tip of the iceberg. >> In the past for MMS, we shipped 36 RACKS, ~570 servers, to host MMS labs. For MMS 2010, we shipped 3 RACKS. Yes, 3 RACKS with 41 servers. (Ok, technically, 6 half racks because they're easier to ship.) << So, what were these racks filled with? Servers. All servers were configured identically as follows: * 41 HP Proliant DL380G6 servers (Dual socket, quad-core, Nehalem Processors with SMT, 16 LPs per system) each configured with 128 GB of memory and 4 300 GB SAS drive of local storage striped (no SANs were used), These servers were simply incredible. Performance, expandability, performance. * All networking was 1 Gb/E switched (no 10 Gb/E) and demonstrates the efficiency of Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP). Even with hundreds of labs going on simultaneously, network bandwidth was never an issue on 1 Gb/E * Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V and System Center * Virtual machines were configured on average with 3-4 GB of memory each and the majority of labs used multiple VMs per lab. The power draw on each server when fully loaded was about 200 watts. Maximum power draw for the 41 servers was 8,200 watts. If we do a broad comparison against our previous 570 servers (assuming a similar power draw) the comparison looks like this: * 570 servers * 200 watts per server = 114,000 watts * 41 server * 200 watts per server = 8,200 watts >> Power reduction of 13.9x on the servers. << read the rest here > http://blogs.technet.com/virtualization/archive/2010/05/06/mms-2010-labs-powered-by-hyper-v-system-center-hp.aspx

for 1. try maik kosters webservices to import the computer into sccm via a HTA frontend for 2. just make sure the ts's are advertised to computers os that you know you dont have in your organisation, eg: windows 2000, that way the advert will never show up in RAP (windows) but will show up via PXE boot

if you remove the 'use unattended... file' setting in apply operating system image step, what happens ?

ok and when you PXE boot what ip address are you getting, is it within your protected boundary ?

hopefully you'll post how you get on with it after you've got it working i think the /mu switch is one to look at though

post your smsts.log file here, usually 0x00000001 means file not found or similar...

using Multiple Task Sequences via PXE, PXE boot to a task sequence menu choice is sometimes a good thing

also take a look at this post http://www.myitforum.com/forums/DCM-Item-and-Baseline-Settings-Report-m217896.aspx i dont think dcm will read whats in your file, it will jsut tell you if the file exists or not, (compliant or not) but i could be wrong... here are links to the DCM downloads http://pinpoint.microsoft.com/en-US/systemcenter/managementpackcatalog

give me more details of this how is the secondary site setup and what roles are installed on it

post your smsts.log file here and we'll take a look, you'll need to enable f8 support for that

when i get a chance i'll do up some guides for DCM, in the meantime does this help ? http://msmvps.com/blogs/daniel/archive/2008/03/31/using-sccm-dcm-to-verify-the-gpo-compliance.aspx

hi there, yes it does unfortunately the process would be as above, create an association for it, then boot it, let it osd as normal and in the task sequence it'll have the restore user state steps built in and magically restore the data, if its unknown then it won't have an association, you could of course, deploy the os to an unknown computer, then once it's known, create a computer association, then get the data from the source and finally advertise what i'd call a 'loadstate' task sequence to it, which will restore that users data, we are working through how best to do this ourselves, you might want to take a look at webservices to script the computer association via a HTA at boot time for the techs., here's a good link to start with

funny that, i was going to ask you to try another port but you beat me to it, perhaps the port has been blocked/reconfigured/broken by a new firewall gpo, or on the switch side by a port change ?

do you mean that the task sequence is appearing in the Run Advertised programs ? and nothing happens when you click on it or what ?

from Johans blog Some time ago I came across the MigRecover Utility for Microsoft’s Windows Easy Transfer (thanks Calle Malmstrom for the tip!), It works great for extracting data from a standard USMT 4 store as well. There is also a version for USMT 3. The syntax is quite simple: MigRecover.exe [/i:] [/e:] [/v] [password] So for extracting all files in the C:\MigData\PC0003\USMT.MIG store to D:\Tmp you would use the following command: MigRecover.exe /i:*.* C:\MigData\PC0003\USMT.MIG D:\Tmp For download and additional info: http://www.visser.com.au/blog/migrecover-for-microsofts-windows-easy-transfer / Johan

first of all have you defined any active directory discovery methods ? this post will give you some ideas of achieving what you want http://www.windows-noob.com/forums/index.php?/topic/892-deploy-software-through-ad-groups-linked-to-collections-in-sccm/

i tested on windows 7 using ie8 with no problems like you had, can you confirm its not cookie related or something (av software perhaps ?)

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Kinom's example will set the resolution in the OS not in PE, in PE you can use SETRES.exe then copy that file to your MDT scripts folder (in the mdt files package), once done create a step called Use Toolkit package before the set screen resolution step, dont forget to update your Distribution Points with a new copy of the MDT files package after doing this, you could of course create a separate package for the program setres.exe and add a step to use that package prior to the next line... create a run command line task in your task sequence call Set Screen Resolution that has a command line which reads cmd /c "%scriptroot%\SETRES" h1024 v768 b16 done !

ok then what does the distrmgr.log say for that dp ? can you test disabling av on the dp just to see if it IS having an effect on package distribution ?

can you take a look at this page and see did you miss anything ? are you certain that the console you are running from has R2 installed on it ?

is R2 installed ?