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In this guide I assume that you have installed and configured SCCM and have it all working ok. This guide assumes that you have installed another Server running Windows Server 2008 and that it is joined to the same domain that SCCM is joined to. Note: The Remote SUP can handle connections from up to 25,000 client computers. If there are more client computers you can configure the active SUP to use an NLB cluster which can handle connections up to 100,000 computers. Step 1. install IIS 7.0 on your WSUS server Start the Server Manager (click Start, click Run, and then type CompMgmtLauncher). In the tree view, select Roles, then in the Roles pane click Add Roles. In the Add Roles Wizard, click Select Server Roles, select the Web Service (IIS) check box, click Next, and then click Next again. You may see a message box Add features required for Web Server (IIS)? Click Add Required Features. In the Select Role Services window, make sure that the following services are selected: * Common HTTP Features (including Static Content) * ASP.NET, ISAPI Extensions, and ISAPI Features (under Application Development) * Windows Authentication (under Security) * IIS Metabase Compatibility (under Management Tools, expand IIS 6 Management Compatibility) Click Next, and then review your selections. Click Install, and finally click Close when done. Note: you can also review Technets Page on configuring IIS for WSUS.

Choose a Deployment Template In the Deployment Management Node, Right click on the Deployment Template we created earlier (All Microsoft Approved Patches) and choose properties Click on the Collections Tab and browse to Test Group make sure Include Members of Sub Collections is selected and click apply to start the Patch deployment to your Test Group click on the Schedule tab and select As Soon as Possible, include the Set a Deadline option and Ignore Maintenance options as below Note: If you are using or have configured Maintenance Windows then do not select Ignore Maintenance Windows unless you really want to ignore those maintenance windows, this remember, is just a LAB. sit back and wait, the Servers listed in your Test Group will now be targetted with the selected patches

Create some Patch Deployment Collections How you want to deploy your patches is up to you and your organisation, below is only a suggestion, use at your own risk ! Create some new Blank collections with no membership rules with each collection having a new sub-collection so they are like this Deploy Patches/Phase 3/Phase 2/Phase 1/Test Group When Microsoft Release's it's Patches you'll want to get them deployed quickly to a Test Group, to do that do as follows Add some computers to the Test Group collection (or create a link to a collection as described below) If you want to link a collection , then pick a collection from the list *remember this howto is to show you HOW you can do this, you will obviously have to create your own test collections and add computers to them yourself before linking them here*

Optional: Create an Update List Note: Update lists are useful for us as they can be used (after the event) to Report on what patches are deployed to computers and to review their compliance using those reports. If you are not interested in reporting or the compliance status of your machines then Update Lists will probably not matter to you at all and you can deploy patches without using them. If you do decide to utilise SCCM's reporting capabilities in regards to patching, then it would be a good idea to create separate Update Lists on a monthly basis to see what patches go out, and to what computers. If you want to read a guide aimed at using Update Lists for Reporting purposes then please see here. Select a search folder for example Windows Server 2008 Patches and highlight the first Windows update contained and press Shift, scroll down to the last one and press again until all patches are selected. Right click within the selection and choose Update List choose Create New Update List from the options in the wizard When the Deployment Package window appears, click on Browse to select one, or choose to create a new one and give it a descriptive name like All Windows XP Updates or Windows Server 2008 Updates as this is just a lab, we will pick the one we made earlier.. The Deployment Package is selected... choose the Internet as the download location *even if the WSUS server is on another Site Server* choose a language *english* click next to Security and Summary, the updates will be provisioned review the Confirmation, if there are any errors at this point then verify that you have correctly specified the WSUS site server Hit refresh in the Configmgr console to see your Update List.

Create a Windows Update Share In Windows Explorer, create a share that Everyone can access called Windows Updates Create a Deployment Management Task select a Search Folder that contains the patches you want to apply eg: select Windows Server 2008 Patches in the right you'll see the list of patches available (if not, you need to Synchronise WSUS with Microsoft) to do that click on Update Repository and choose Run Synchronisation. Select all and right click and choose Deploy Software Updates Enter a name for the new deployment, be descriptive eg: Windows Server 2008 Patches, the screenshot below is generic so refers to all updates..and click next .. Select the Deployment Template you created earlier and click next.. choose to Create a Package, be descriptive eg: Windows Server 2008 Patches, the screenshot below is generic so refers to all updates (All Microsoft Approved patches), point it to the Windows Updates share you created and give it a description, select Binary Replication for distribution points, click browse and selct your distribution point Choose download software updates from the internet select your language choose As soon as possible and Do not set a deadline for software update installation (keeps the updates OPTIONAL)... Note: You can change this later to force the deployment of the updates but this is fine for our LAB, in other words if you do NOT set a deadline then the updates will not be forcefully installed (they are Optional), if you want them to install (mandatory/forced) then SET A DEADLINE clicking next will start the Provisioning update progress....... *can take time...* once done you should see this and you can browse the Windows Updates share and it should be full of packages

Create a Deployment Template In Computer Management, right click on Collections and choose New Collection, create a new collection called Blank For Staging with no membership rules or advertisements. right click on Deployment Templates and choose New Deployment Template give the template a name like All Microsoft Approved Patches for Collection, point it to the Blank For Staging one we created above, and make sure sub collections are selected. Set the Display/Time settings to suppress display notification on clients, client local time for deployment schedules and duration of 1 day for Restart Setttings set them accordingly leave Event Generation as it is unless you are using Operations Manager servers and want the reporting.,... for download Settings, make sure to select download in both choices leave SMS 2003 blank and next... and next to the summary and close. your finished Deployment Template will appear

This guide assumes you have SCCM 2007 setup as described here. This guide was based upon a document entitled Patch Management directions for SCCM by Christopher Stauffer which you can find here. Please note that this guide is designed to help you get a working SUP in SCCM in a LAB Environment as quickly as possible. This guide is provided as is, if you find any errors please report them in the forums. In a production environment please consult Technet for best practise, see below links: Superflow: Software Update Deployment SuperFlow About Software Update Point: About Software Update Point Planning: Planning for Software Updates Client Settings Configuration: Configuring Software Updates How to Configure the Software Updates Client Agent How to Create and Configure an Active Internet-Based Software Update Point Best Practices: Configuring Configuration Manager Sites for Best Performance Checklist for Security Best Practices Best Practices for Central and Primary Site Hardware and Software Configuration Best Practices for Operating System Deployment Software Update Point process Flowcharts: Software Updates Synchronization Process Flowchart Software Update Deployment Process Flowchart Deployment Package Process Flowchart Related: How to obtain the latest version of the Windows Update Agent 1. Install WSUS Install WSUS but do not configure it. Once done, make sure the Software Update Point Role is installed on the SCCM Server. Once you've added the Software Update Point role, verify that it is installed by checking the SUPSetup.log, it should have a line which reads Installation was successful 2. Create some Search Folders In the Software Updates section, right click on Search Folders and choose New Folder, give the new folder a name like Enterprise Searches (we willl store our yearly searches here) Right click on our new folder and choose New Search Folder, select the following options from step 1 (in the screenshot), BulletinID, Expired and Superseded in step 2, Set the BulleinID to MS plus the last two digits of the year eg: MS08 Set Expired to No Set Superseded to No Make sure that Search All folders under this feature is selected and give the search a name, eg: 2008 patches Now that you know how to make a Search Folder, let's make one for Monthly searches, so right click on Enterprise Patches and choose New Search Folder Fill it in as follows and now make one for Windows Server 2008, we do this by adding Product as a search criteria and typing in the search phrase to look for, naturally you can customise it to suit your needs.

This guide assumes you have installed SCCM 2007 SP1 and then configured it as outlined here in Part 1 you must then do the additional configuration outlined in Part 2, and you must have completed the final configuration tasks in Part 3. Lastly you must be able to deploy an application using SCCM 2007 In addition to the above you must have completed Part 1 of this guide Create the Task Sequence right click on Task Sequences and choose New Task Sequence choose the second option (Build and Capture a reference operating system image) fill in your Task Sequence Information click browse and select our X86 boot image Note: if you don't see the x86 windows PE boot enviroment for SCCM 1.0 EN-US image listed then follow these steps first. On the Install Windows screen click on Browse and select the XP SP3 operating system install package we created in Part 1. Input your product key and make sure to enable the local Administrator account, Configure Network Here we need to enter our network configuration and click next, choose Join Workgroup (recommended best practise). Although joining the domain will work just fine you may have GPO's in place, or startup scripts (login scripts) etc which may taint your master image, keeping it off the domain will keep it clean. on the Install ConfigMgr screen, browse to the Predefined ConfigMgr Client Package we created earlier for the Updates and Software screens choose don't install any (ie: next, next) for the System Preparation screen click on browse and choose the sysprep package we created earlier fill in the image properties On the Capture image screen, browse to a share on your network for copying the image to, and give the file a name eg: \\WIN-AE2V1IRN067\captures\xpsp3r.wim fill in your user account for capturing the image with, I use SMSadmin click next, next and close at the confirmation screen

Please note that this guide is designed to get you Deploying Windows XP with SCCM in a LAB Environment as quickly as possible. This guide is provided as is, if you find any errors please report them in the forums. In a production environment please consult Technet for best practise, see below links: Operating System Deployment: Operating System Deployment in Configuration Manager Overview of Operating System Deployment Configuration: System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Best Practices: Configuring Configuration Manager Sites for Best Performance Checklist for Security Best Practices Best Practices for Central and Primary Site Hardware and Software Configuration Best Practices for Operating System Deployment This guide assumes you have installed SCCM 2007 SP1 and then configured it as outlined here in Part 1 you must then do the additional configuration outlined in Part 2, and you must have completed the final configuration tasks in Part 3. Lastly you must be able to deploy an application using SCCM 2007 and you should have reviewed part one and part two of Deploying Windows Vista, which covers setting up the PXE Service point. Note: In this guide I've used the en_windows_xp_professional_with_service_pack_3_x86_cd_x14-80428.iso available on MSDN, this is the Retail version of XP, you should really use the VL (Volume License edition) in conjunction with your VL key to deploy XP. Note: This Deploy XP guide will create a build image of Windows XP using the XP cd mentioned above. Once the image is created we will Capture the image. This whole process is known as 'Build and Capture'. The captured image can then be used in a separate task sequence to Deploy XP. Import XP SP3 as an Operating System Install Package In the Operating System Deployment node of ConfigMgr, right click on Operating System Install Packages and choose Add Operating System Install Package. click on browse and browse to the network share where you have previously copied the XP SP3 CD contents to... (in my case that's \\WIN-AE2V1IRN067\iso\Xp sp3 retail) once you have the Data Source correctly specified, click next on the General Page fill in some details about this XP SP3 image... review the summary, click next and click close at the confirmation screen.

Please note that this guide is designed to get you up and running with SCCM in a LAB Environment as quickly as possible, so server roles are not going to be separated unless otherwise stated. This guide is provided as is, if you find any errors please report them in the forums. This guide refers to Service Pack 1 but you should use the latest version available currently which is Configuration Manager 2007 Service Pack 2. The latest version of this guide can always be found at http://www.windows-n...ws-server-2008/ In a production environment please consult Technet for best practise, see below links: Prerequisites: Prerequisites for Installing Configuration Manager Configuration: System Center Configuration Manager 2007 How to Configure Windows Server 2008 for Site Systems Best Practices: Configuring Configuration Manager Sites for Best Performance Checklist for Security Best Practices Best Practices for Central and Primary Site Hardware and Software Configuration Best Practices for Operating System Deployment Checklists: Example Configuration Manager Installation Checklist Example Configuration Manager Upgrade Checklist This guide assumes that you have first setup Windows Server 2008 and configured it for Active Directory, with DHCP (you only need steps 1 and 2 this guide). If you want to deploy operating systems within SCCM you will then also need the Windows Deployment Services installed, and that is covered in steps 3 and 4 of this guide). You must have installed and configured IIS (for SCCM) and installed SQL Server 2005 SP2 (or SQL Server 2008 with this hotfix) and WSUS (you can install WSUS later if you want, it's only required for the SUP role). Please note: WSUS SP2 is a role within Server 2008 R2 so if you are using Server 2008 R2 you can install WSUS Sp2 by adding the role. If you are thinking about hosting SQL Server on another server than the SCCM server then please read this post. You should also read the SCCM prerequisites on Technet. We will be using the MSDN version of SCCM 2007 Sp1 namely en_system_center_configuration_manager_2007_with_service_pack_1_x86_dvd_x14-66461.iso so burn it to DVD or mount it in Daemon tools (or similar). Part 1. Run the prerequisite checker and fix the warnings/errors. When the menu appears, click on Run the prerequisite checker, we'll do this to see if our Windows Server 2008 needs any additional tasks performed prior to installing SCCM 2007 sp1. enter your servername as below (leave OUT the instance name or you may get errors explained in the Final Note) this gave me two prerequisites which needed looking at, the AD Schema extensions, Microsoft Remote Differential compression. If you want to get more details of the problems identified, then check c:\ConfigMgrPrereq.log (and c:\ConfigMgrSetup.log) or double click each warning/error in turn to get a short description (scrollable) of the problem. My first problem was that I needed to extend the Active directory schema, to do so I followed this guide. Once I had extended the active directory schema, I ran the prerequisite checker again, That left me with the RDC error, That led me here and that in turn had this info To add Remote Differential Compression to site servers and branch distribution points In Server Manager, on the Features node, start the Add Features Wizard. On the Select Features page, select Remote Differential Compression, and then click Next. Complete the rest of the wizard by clicking install then close. Now run the prerequisite checker again and the RDC error should be gone Once you have no warnings or errors, please proceed to Part 2. Final Note: if you entered the instance name at the start of this guide, you may get an error which states The Technet page for Setup Prerequisite checks states:-

Before starting this, make sure to backup all your SQL databases, any problems arising from doing this are your own responsibility, always test this on a test lab computer scenario before doing it in your business environment. Download the following from Microsoft connect or your MSDN downloads area. en_sql_2005_std_x86_dvd.iso and en_sql_server_2005_sp2_x86_cd.iso burn them to DVD/CD or mount them using tools such as Daemon tools. Step 1. Run the upgrade advisor to see what issues may need to be resolved Start the SQL Server 2005 Standard edition DVD and select Install SQL upgrade Advisor from the list of options. When the wizard appears click next accept the license aggreement enter/verify your registration information click next when asked what features to install (go with the default) choose install to install the SQL Upgrade Advisor once done click on Finish Now that it's installed, let's run it, so click on Start, All Programs, Microsoft SQL Server 2005, SQL Server 2005 Upgrade Advisor When the Upgrade Advisor splashscreen opens, click on Launch Upgrade Advisor Analysis Wizard. This will launch another wizard click next to continue choose the components you want to analyze (i selected all) when asked how the Upgrade Advisor should connect go with the default settings unless you have changed them previously when installing SQL click next when prompted for what databases to analyze if you get an error about not finding the notification services hit the back button three times and remove the checkmark from 'notification services' and continue again. click next for the DTS parameters view the confirmation and click Run to start... once done you can click on Launch Reprt to see the details viewing the report will allow you to see what components to change before attempting the actual SQL upgrade.

Please note, this is for lab testing purposes, use it at your own risk, always backup your SMS database and site before attempting any radical changes such as an upgrade. If you break your production setup by doing anything here I am not responsible, use at your own risk. Test always in a LAB first. Before performing the steps below you should perform a test DB (database) upgrade as detailed below.WARNING: the following can corrupt the database if used on a production database. It cannot be used more than once on the same database copy. Step 1. Test the DataBase upgrade Note you should have backed up your SMS database using SMS database backup prior to running this. In addition, copy your SCCM 2007 SP2 media to a local folder for the DB upgrade process. On your SMS 2003 Server:- Open SQL Server Management Studio. Right click Databases select Restore Database. For Database (type in): CopyofServerName (replace ServerName with your SMS server name) Select From Device, use ellipses button to browse. Click the Add button. in Files of Type, use drop down to select all Files(*) Expand the location where your SMS database is backed up to, for example C:\SMS_BACKUP\SiteDBServer select the SMSbkSQLDBsite.dat file. Click Ok, and Ok again. Select Restore Box to check. Ok, and Ok to Restore was successful Open Command prompt and Browse to your SCCM Sources Media folder. SCCM 2007 with SP2\SMSSETUP\BIN\I386 setup.exe /testdbupgrade CopyofServerName Answer YES, Click Begin Upgrade Open log files: C:\ConfigMgrPrereq.log, C:\ConfigMgrSetup.log A window should appear and say successful If unsuccessful stop here, if successful, move forward. Clean up CopyofServerName Database. Right click CopyofServerName database, select Delete, leave defaults, click ok. Step 2. Start the Upgrade First of all download the iso from your MSDN account or Microsoft Connect. once done, burn it to DVD or mount the ISO using Daemon tools or similar. Before starting the process you'll need to know the prerequisites, and thankfully there is a prerequisite checker included on the DVD. Next you should run the prerequisite checker so let's run that and see what it says If like me you already have an SMS 2003 server setup then it will automatically choose the upgrade option, as this server is the only SMS site we will click ok to continue. After some scanning it will present you with a results page, double clicking on a result will tell you what you have to do to fix the problem. As I was running SQL 2000 sp4, it correctly flagged that I needed to upgrade that to SQL 2005, at this point I exited the SMS>SCCM process (click on cancel) and got my SQL 2005 iso (en_sql_2005_std_x86_dvd.iso).

Step 4. Configure the Windows Deployment Services gui (mmc snap in) Click on Start/All Programs/Administrative tools/Windows Deployment Services. at this point we can see that WDS is not configured yet, so let's do that now. right click on the server name in the left pane and choose Configure Server at the welcome page click next change the remoteinstall path from the default C:\RemoteInstall to D:\RemoteInstall I put a checkmark in each of the DHCP options then clicked next I then chose to respond to all known and unknown computers (by default it's set to Do not respond to any) Please note, if you want to set this option to only respond to known computers, then you can do so, but you will have to prestage your computers in Active Directory to do so clicking on Finish applies these settings when done, you'll be told that the configuration is complete and that you can now add images to the WDS server, click on Finish (again). Step 5. Adding boot.wim and install.wim Note: You should use only the boot.wim file from the Windows Server 2008 DVD. If you use the boot.wim file from the Windows Vista DVD, you will not be able to use the full functionality of Windows Deployment Services for example, multicasting. If you have the Windows Vista SP1 dvd, you can safely use that for the boot.wim. The Windows Deployment Add image wizard will appear, insert your Windows 2008 Server DVD and click Browse, select the sources folder on the Windows 2008 DVD and then click next you'll be prompted to create a new image group, lets call it ImageGroup1 (the default name, you can change it later to Windows Server 2008 or Windows Vista Sp1 or whatever...). review your settings and click next when ready After a long while, the selected images will be added to the WDS server click finish and review the WDS server as it is now in the Boot Images pane, you should see Microsoft Windows Longhorn Setup (x86) and this is the original boot.wim file from the Windows 2008 Server DVD, please note that this is the default description name of the image, you could change it when addint the boot.wim image to something more descriptive as in this example In the Install Images pane, we can see the six available images from the Windows 2008 Server DVD, these are based upon the install.wim file on the DVD. you can now PXE boot your client computers to the Windows 2008 WDS server. troubleshooting note: if you add a new image to WDS and attempt to pxe boot and then install the image but get an error saying something like 'could not display the list of' then make sure you have used BOOT.WIM from a Windows Server 2008 DVD or Windows Vista sp1.

Step 2. Add the DHCP role After completing Step 1, you now should see that Active Directory Domain Services and DNS server are installed (you can verify this in Server Manager, Roles, Roles Summary). Now that we are in server manager lets click on Add roles again followed by next. Select DHCP Server and click next. Review the information about DHCP server... and if you have more than one network card in your Windows 2008 server, select the one which will be handing out ip's (in my case that is 192.168.3.1), I removed the tick from the other network card listed next you will need to clarify which DNS server ip address to listen to, I changed it from my second nic's ip address 192.168.3.1, clicking on Validate will verify that it's ok enter your WINS settings, I went with the default and clicked next, next we have to input our DHCP server scope options, to do this click on Add enter your scope settings (mine are listed below) click ok and your DHCP scope will now be listed click next and you'll get IPV6 options, I chose to disable this as I'm not using IPv6 yet next we are asked about DHCP credentials for the AD DS, I stayed with the default, and then we will see a summary of our actions and choices for the DHCP server role clicking on Install will apply these settings and after some time you should hopefully see the following:- Step 3. Add the WDS role:- In Server Manager, Highlight and select Windows Deployment Services and click next. you will get an information screen which has some info including the following:- Click next and notice the two role services listed, Deployment Server and Transport Server, make sure they are both selected and click next to continue. view the summary and click install to install the WDS role... after some copying you should see this if you check server manager under roles you should now see the WDS role added.

Note: If you already have an Active Directory setup and configured DNS then skip to Step 2 (Setup DHCP). If you have already configured AD, DNS and DHCP then please skip to Step 3 (Add the WDS role). This guide assumes that you have first of all installed Windows 2008 server on your machine and partitioned it as c: (Operating system) and d: (data), note that you can change the partitions after the installation of Windows 2008 server by using disk management and right clicking on a disk and choosing to shrink or extend. This guide is to help you set things up in a LAB. In Production, you have to plan things according to Technet documentation. Step 1. Setup and configure active directory Click on Start and choose Server Manager, scroll down to Roles Summary and choose Add Roles. When the wizard appears click next. As WDS needs the folllowing:- Active Directory Domain Services, DHCP, DNS, we will add the following role first:- Active Directory Domain Services We must install this role first before continuing to add the other roles, so lets select it and click on next. We will then be informed that installing AD requires us to run dcpromo.exe afterwards to make the server a fully functional domain controller. Click install to continue. once done we'll get the success screen click close to continue Once done the server manager will list our ADDS service with a red X beside it, click on it to run Dcpromo.exe. This will open up the Roles section of Server manager, and we'll see a summary which says This server is not yet running as a domain controller. Run the Active Directory Domain Services Installation Wizard (dcpromo.exe). Click on the blue text to continue. This will start the Active Directory Domain Services Installation Wizard. Click on next to continue. Next we will get a screen telling us that older versions of Windows (pre Vista Sp1 ....) may have problems with a bunch of things including Windows Deployment Services (for more info read KB942564) click next to continue Now we get to choose what type of domain we will setup, and for the purpose of this lab, we will select the second option, Create a new domain in a new forest. next we are prompted for the fully qualified domain name of the forest root domain (eg: corp.contoso.com) Note: if you have not already given this server a good computername, then cancel this process and do so now. The computername will be prepended to whatever FQDN you enter, so if you enter corp.contoso.com then the FQDN of this domain controller will be AD1.corp.contoso.com after clicking next the wizard will check the validity of the fqdn, next we get to choose the forest functional level, click the drop down menu and select Windows Server 2008 from the three choices (Windows 2000, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008). As this is only a test lab, we are not concerned that we can only add Windows 2008 or later servers to this forest. Clicking next will give some addtional options, leave them as they are (DNS Server selected) and click on Next again. if you get a warning about dynamically assigned ip addresses ignore it (choose yes), you will most likely get another DNS warning if like me you don't have a Windows DNS server in the forest. Click yes to continue. Next we are asked where to store the AD database, logfiles and sysvol, stay with the defaults and click next. and we are then prompted to set the Directory Services restore mode administrator account password finally we get a summary of our actions click next to get started after a while you should see the AD wizard complete. Click Finish you'll be prompted to restart, so please go ahead and click on Restart Now.

ok what server OS are you using here ? windows 2003 ? and which service pack ? i'll try and replicate this here cheers anyweb

if you've just installed Windows Server 2008, and are trying to get connected to the internet via wireless you'll have no end of problems as it just will not see any wireless networks no matter what driver you install for your wireless card. The reason is because Wireless is disabled by default in Windows Server 2008. To resolve it, do as follows in Server manager scroll down to Features Summary and click on Add Features. When the Select Features window appears, scroll down to Wireless LAN Service, and place a checkmark in there. you'll be informed that the server may need a restart... click install to continue the wireless lan installation service will be initialized and hopefully will succeed click close to continue and then browse your wireless networks as normal choose one to connect to and then you are done ! that's it, cheers niall

ok first of all lets rule out storage as the issue:- have you tried changing the AHCI/SATA mode in bios ? if changing that doesnt help your problem then we need to know exactly how you created your Windows PE image (what boot.wim file did you use and from what DVD (msdn/dell oem vista dvd) please specify cheers anyweb

hi and welcome to the forums are you trying to use WDS to load your optiplex 755's with vista or xp or are you doing something else (capturing/deploying wds images...) on the front of your dell optiplex, does it say VPRO anywhere ?

After being released to manufacturing last week, SP3 for XP is now available as either a standalone installer (direct download link) or at Windows Update. PC Magazine has coverage of the new service pack, including launch details, a hands-on review, slideshows, and expert tips. via osnews.com

Despite Microsoft's obvious focus on selling Windows Vista to its customers, it hasn't yet forgotten about all those people out there that still use Windows XP (personally, I use Windows XP MCE 2005). The company has confirmed it has finally 'released to manufacturing' the third service pack to Windows XP - 7 years after the operating system's original release. via osnews.com microsoft > http://forums.microsoft.com/TechNet/ShowPo...3&SiteID=17

hi Mike, so it's all working now ? this is excellent ! did you use my new WIM file at all ? i'd like to know if you tested it and if it worked. the reason we used the vista drivers was because WDS used the Windows Vista DVD to create the boot.wim file (which gives us windows PE....) and that needed the vista driver not the XP driver. i actually live in Sweden, Europe and i'm happy to talk about this on the phone if you want or on MSN either way i'm glad things are working for you now, spread the word ! cheers anyweb

no that's not enough, you must import the wim into WDS by choosing 'add boot image' in the WDS gui in addition i think we've been using the wrong INF's all along, instead of using the windows xp ones we should be using the vista ones for windows PE.... so i've updated the WIM one last time to include the correct infs (i hope) sorry about this, but as I don't have an Optiplex 755 it's hard for me to test the theory please download this new WIM and test it, i'm very hopeful that it'll work here's what I did to put it together, C:\>"c:\Program Files\Windows AIK\Tools\PETools\copype.cmd" x86 c:\windowspe-x86 C:\windowspe-x86>Imagex /info "D:\remoteinstall\boot\x86\images\windows-noob_capture-(2).WIM" C:\windowspe-x86>Imagex /mountrw D:\remoteinstall\boot\x86\images\windows-noob_c apture-(2).WIM 1 c:\mount C:\windowspe-x86>peimg /inf="C:\dell\drivers\R162323\Vista32\*.inf" c:\mount C:\windowspe-x86>imagex /unmount /commit c:\mount the most important line above is this one C:\windowspe-x86>peimg /inf="C:\dell\drivers\R162323\Vista32\*.inf" c:\mount ok ? cheers anyweb

ok can you confirm thhat you disabled the wim in wds, then imported mine, then re-enabled it then pxe booted the optiplex 755 what happened then ?

Microsoft has finally pumped out Vista service pack one (SP1) in the remaining 31 languages as a manual download via its Windows Update site. Swedish download > http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details...;displaylang=sv Bulgarian download > http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details...4a-09146a0ba746 Danish download > http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details...4a-09146a0ba746