first, thanks for this excellent forum, it helped me a lot !
So now to my problem. 1 week ago I got the task to deploy 6 WinXP machines on some new Dell PCs. Due to a new hardware, installation from cd ended with BSOD.
So i had 3 options 1) to load the driver from a floppy (and install manually) 2) to modify the installation cd (not easy to do in our company) 3) to use sccm which was installed but not configured
I decided to use sccm. I could successfully capture a reference PC with WinXP and to apply the WIM image to a test PC which booted over PXE. I played about a week (with 2 dell PCs, one played the role of a reference pc and another booted over PXE and applied the wim image) to get familiar with OSD.
Yesterday we decided to apply the final WIM-image to our Dell PCs, so we added all our Dell machines via OSD -> Computer Association -> Import Single Computer. There we entered MAC addresses and names of our 6 dell machines and added them all to a new "Capture and Deploy WinXP" Collection. All 6 Dell machines booted over PXE and applied successfully my WIM-image. Everything went well, at the end we had 6 Dell machines with a desired configuration. No problems here
After maybe 1 hour a user came to me and asked when the "process" will complete, I could not understand what he means, and what process (nobody knew about our Dell installations). The user asked me to take a look on his workstations. After I entered his office my hair stood on end. I sow a workstation with and SCCM error and WinXP installation in the background, asking to enter product key. Under panic I rebooted this workstation to see if PXE-Boot is enabled, but it was not. I asked the user what happened before, he told me that some window popped up (of course he did not remember what kind of window), after that he leaved his office for 5 min. As he was back, he sow like his workstation reboots. After that WinXP installation begun.
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Hello everyone !
first, thanks for this excellent forum, it helped me a lot !
So now to my problem. 1 week ago I got the task to deploy 6 WinXP machines on some new Dell PCs. Due to a new hardware, installation from cd ended with BSOD.
So i had 3 options 1) to load the driver from a floppy (and install manually) 2) to modify the installation cd (not easy to do in our company) 3) to use sccm which was installed but not configured
I decided to use sccm. I could successfully capture a reference PC with WinXP and to apply the WIM image to a test PC which booted over PXE. I played about a week (with 2 dell PCs, one played the role of a reference pc and another booted over PXE and applied the wim image) to get familiar with OSD.
Yesterday we decided to apply the final WIM-image to our Dell PCs, so we added all our Dell machines via OSD -> Computer Association -> Import Single Computer. There we entered MAC addresses and names of our 6 dell machines and added them all to a new "Capture and Deploy WinXP" Collection. All 6 Dell machines booted over PXE and applied successfully my WIM-image. Everything went well, at the end we had 6 Dell machines with a desired configuration. No problems here
After maybe 1 hour a user came to me and asked when the "process" will complete, I could not understand what he means, and what process (nobody knew about our Dell installations). The user asked me to take a look on his workstations. After I entered his office my hair stood on end. I sow a workstation with and SCCM error and WinXP installation in the background, asking to enter product key. Under panic I rebooted this workstation to see if PXE-Boot is enabled, but it was not. I asked the user what happened before, he told me that some window popped up (of course he did not remember what kind of window), after that he leaved his office for 5 min. As he was back, he sow like his workstation reboots. After that WinXP installation begun.
now is the question HOW COULD THIS HAPPEN ?
Thx everybody
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