MacRasta

Indeed, you told me about the ports. But it's a bit confusing ... nevermind, it's working, or that part at least ... I did advertise the capture sequence, and checked the "make this task sequence available .....". I even deleted it and made a new advertisement, but to no avail. I'll check the log now, and let you know in a while ... Thanks!

Hold yer Horses there! I've just found out that I DO need to configure the WDS server, telling it not to listen to port 67 and use 60 as PXE .... I read that if the WDS-DHCP-SCCM are on the same machine one doesn't need to configure the WDS server ... go figure ... hehehe So finally i got an answer from my machine!! So now I've got a screen (like your middle screen) with a pending request ... So I presume that there is some sort of authentication issue somewhere ... If you could point that out to me, I would be gratefull!! In the mean time I'll google it. Thanks again!

Yes, WAIK is installed, and i filled all info in SCCM as in this guide. It's a bit confusing, I try to capture an XP system, and at the end of part 1 it says to do steps 3 & 4, who are links to capture a Vista machine. But untill where do we have to take these steps? Untill part 5 of Deploying Vista?? As for the screenshots; I don't get an address from my DHCP server, then it exits the PXE-boot saying : PXE E53: No Boot Name received ... As for the port options for DHCP; I would like to check them but where do I find them? Thanks

Hi Kingskawn, So if I understand correctly, SCCM will sysprep my XP-machine, instead of sysprepping it myself. Please correct me if I'm wrong. * DHCP-server : up and running. The IP-range is defenitely within the boundaries. I've made 15 reservations for DHCP to use in case of a PXE-request. I do need to put the MAC-address of that machine in the DHCP-server as all our computers have fixed IP-addresses and some people here have a laptop that they take home. So those machines have an alternative IP-configuration, what makes that I need to put invalid MAC-Addresses for the 15 addresses I've reserved in DHCP, if not they'll get an IP-address from the DHCP... I'll have to check the port-settings, but as I understood there is no configuration of ports needed if the DHCP server is on the same machine as the SCCM server... *WDS started on the server *Correct drivers for the xp-machine. The XP-machine is a functional XP Pro SP3 machine. It has all the drivers it needs to connect to our network (it is running in our network as we speek). So I presume that there is a correct NIC, right? Cuz I need SCCM to capture this machine and sysprep it so I can deploy it afterwards. And eventually add some drivers so I can use this image on other HAL's. Or if someone could point me to a log I should check? (PS : FYI. In the past I used the same IP-addresses in DHCP for my WDS-Server, and there was no problem PXE-booting any client in our network. That's why I'm a bit lost here. I'm sure it will be something simple, a stupid setting or a mark I didn't put somewhere ...) I hope it's a bit clear to you, English is not my native language, I do my best. Thanks again!

Hy Any, So I followed All steps,from the beginning until this point without getting any errors whatsoever. When I PXE-boot the client, it doesn't seem to be able to contact SCCM or the DHCP server. WDS installed and running, DHCP up and running on the SCCM server (So I presume I don't have to configure any ports). It's probably a simple setting somewhere but I can't seem to find info on that ... Or could you tell me what log-file I should be lokking at? Thanks a lot!

Thanks for the quick reply! I think I've got it now; if I already have a syspredded image, I don't need to sysprep a physical machine, I just need to have that image somewhere on a share ... Thanks again for helping us out!

Hello, I wanted to thank you for this great manual. As so far everything is working perfect, even though I didn't extend the AD schema. I added the sites name in our WINS server. But I'm a bit stuck now. Regarding this OSD, do we need to complete these 2 steps (steps 3 - 4) before going to part 2? And if I understand correctly, I'll have to sysprep an XP-machine to capture the sysprepped OS? Or will our SCCM create a sysprepped OS itself (with the UNC path to the OS-cd we've entered)? And if we need to sysprep a physical machine to capture the OS, how did you manage to take screenshots of a machine installing itself?? I hope my questions are a bit clear to you... Many Thanks and keep up the good work!!