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On March 21, the first day of MMS 2011, I announced the immediate availability of the Deployment Research blog and Deployment Research Facebook page. Sites filled with video-tutorials on how to deploy operating systems. Information about this new site, as well a bunch of other deployment related community sites was by the way also printed (thank you FedEx) and put in the attendee-bag (Thank you Microsoft) for every MMS 2011 attendee, about 4000 people.
This also means that the deployvista.com blog will not be much active anymore. It will still exist, but the content will gradually be migrated over to the new site, cleaned-up and converted into the new format…
Happy deployment, and I hope to see you online in the forums…
Regards / Johan Arwidmark
Microsoft MVP – Setup & Deployment
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Network Timeout bug in Windows PE 2.1 causes MDT 2008 Lite Touch to fail
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Location: Blogs Johan Arwidmark |
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| Posted by: johan |
4/14/2008 |
Network Timeout bug in Windows PE 2.1 causes MDT 2008 Lite Touch to fail.
Symptoms:
You get the following error message in MDT 2008 Lite Touch Deployment even though you have the correct nic drivers in Windows PE and the correct bootstrap.ini settings. "A connection to the deployment share \\Server\Distribution$ could not be made. The Deployment will not proceed"
Cause:
A network initializion timeout issue in wpeinit.exe in Windows PE 2.1 causes MDT 2008 Lite Touch Deployments to fail.
Workaround:
Give WIndows PE 2.1 a few more seconds by editing startnet.cmd on your LiteTouch_x86.wim (or iso) to look like below
startnet.cmd
wpeutil InitializeNetwork
ping localhost
wpeinit
If you want the Deployment Workbench to include the updated startnet.cmd every time you update the Deployment Point just follow the below steps
Configure MDT to use the updated startnet.cmd
- Create a folder named D:\ExtraFiles\Windows\System32 and copy the updated startnet.cmd to it.
- In the Deployment Workbench, right-click the Deployment Point and select Properties.
- In the Windows PE Tab, in the Extra directory to add textbox, type in D:\ExtraFiles
- Click OK
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Re: Network Timeout bug in Windows PE 2.1 causes MDT 2008 Lite Touch to fail |
By johan on
4/29/2008 |
| Hi Josh, just added instructions on how to do that... |
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Re: Network Timeout bug in Windows PE 2.1 causes MDT 2008 Lite Touch to fail |
By camelspiders on
3/11/2009 |
| Hi Johan. Hate to dig up an old issue but this is closely related. I receive this exact message AFTER the operating system has been deployed. A reboot is performed, the automatic login occurs, and then right before it installs applications is when this happens. NIC drivers are loaded. I can map to my distribution share. I can browse the share and list it's contents. I'm stuck! |
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Re: Network Timeout bug in Windows PE 2.1 causes MDT 2008 Lite Touch to fail |
By redhdkat on
6/3/2009 |
| I don't see where to find the startnet.cmd in the MDt2008. |
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Re: Network Timeout bug in Windows PE 2.1 causes MDT 2008 Lite Touch to fail |
By raja on
3/22/2011 |
"A connection to the deployment share \\Server\Distribution$ could not be made. The Deployment will not proceed".it say's the error : the following Intel 82577LM Gigabit LAN Driver driver is not installed. i have actually imported that driver into the workbench and updated. i am facing this problem with hp elitebook 8440p
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Re: Network Timeout bug in Windows PE 2.1 causes MDT 2008 Lite Touch to fail |
By johan on
3/28/2011 |
| You need to try another driver... If the one from HP doesn't work, get the Windows 7 driver from Intel |
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