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Passing a value from one Task Sequence Variable to another during OSD
We are playing around with Task Sequence variables in SCCM 2012 Sp1. We are reimaging Operating systems wirelessly and one of the problems we've run into is that when assigning the computer name the ...
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Image Issues and Activation
Okay, so I've been working on an image to use with sysprep. We have a downgrade license and all Lenovo computers. Because I've had so many issues with sysprepping OOB computers, I installed win7 pro ...
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Generalize an image without using Sysprep?
Without using sysprep, is there another way to generalize an image for use with Clonezilla?
I created a sysprep image and forgot to add a few things. So when I tried to redo it, I get the failed to ...
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Windows System Image Manager - Extended Attributes Error
I'm trying to create a basic answer file for an image I'm working on to get the computer to automatically join the domain upon reimage. I've got the Win7 Pro 64 bit install.wim file extracted from the ...
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How to Shift Domain Controller without Imaging or Cloning
I have "Machine A" which is Server Running Windows Server 2008 with AD. Almost 65 xp clients are connected to this server.
I have another "Machine B" which has good hardware configuration, I want to ...
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Cloning software RAID 1
I got any order for seven Linux-HA NFS clusters, which consist of two nodes a piece. Each node has a software RAID 1 configuration. I'm trying to speed up the process here.
How could I go about ...
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Put files on deployed PC's HDD during SCCM2012 OSD
We are deploying Windows 7 using an OSD in SCCM 2012 SP1. We are doing this wirelessly. One of the things we are struggling on is automatically connecting to the Wireless.
A solution is to use NETSH ...
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What directories absolutely need to be in a full system backup? [closed]
I'm currently configuring an Ubuntu Server system and would like to perform routine backups using rsync. The goal is to have the right files backed up so that I can use the backup to create an ...
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WDS custom capture image does not complete
I recently set up a WDS server and added the boot and image files, then finally created a captured image. I successfully PXE boot and choose my custome image. I go through the windows deployment ...
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Best way to replicate servers
I currently have two servers both with linux software RAID1 configurations. They use heartbeat and DRBD to create a shared DRBD device that hosts a a exported NFS directory. The servers run Ubuntu ...
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Clonezilla - restore to different partitiion size?
I am using PartedMagic on a liveCD, and specifically am using Clonezilla to mirror a partition so that it can be restored to another drive.
However, the drive I am attempting to restore to is smaller ...
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Why do I have to restore a ghost image twice?
We have several older Lenovo laptops, a mixture of X60 & x61 types and we're extending their useful working life by adding more memory and switching the hard drive to a Crucial M4 SSD for ...
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Get hardware serial number by MAC address?
Is there a command like the following:
wmic /node:"COMPUTERNAME" bios get serialnumber
But by MAC address instead of computer name?
A solution to that would be appreciated, although if you have ...
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Imaging OS X installations
We have about 20 Macs in our shop, all of which have been setup and configured as they were purchased. We have a mix of computers and years (some Mac Minis, some iMacs, some MacBook Pros). They're not ...
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systemimager and sun grid engine queuing system
I'm about to install our new cluster. I've installed the first node and used it for golden-image. As a queuing software we use SGE (Sun Grid Engine).
After installing of the first node I tested ...
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WDS Driver Installs Cause Error After Imaging
We use Windows Deployment Services on Server 2008 R2 to deploy images to all of our computers. To simplify the process, I put driver packages for display & network in WDS so our techs don't have ...
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Hardware independent computer imaging
Where I work we deploy a lot of computers to staff and we try to keep them all roughly the same.
Presently we take each new machine type we get, configure it the way we want, and then take an image ...
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Software solution for duplicating files to multiple USB flash drives simultaneously [closed]
We are distributing data to hundreds of customers using USB flash drives.
There are expensive hardware solutions to duplicate USB flash drives.
Is there any cheap software alternative using a ...
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How can I retrieve statistics from my ghost cast server?
I have a GhostCast server running for deploying images. I would like to have each ghost cast session to write to a file ( can be multiple text files or append to one file already there ) statistics. ...
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How to prepare computers for donation
We are decommissioning around 40 Dell desktops. We would like to donate them but drives need to be wiped. What's the best approach to wipe them all as efficiently as possible?
Is it standard practice ...
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Booting to non-default NetBoot? [closed]
Is is possible to script the bless command to have the computer boot to a specific Netboot set that is not the default?
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How to fix 7B stop errors when cloning Windows images to different HBA types
When Windows is installed it searches it's driver database and installs the appropriate HBA driver so the boot loader can access the drive and boot the system. When an image is taken and cloned to a ...
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Is Imaging over wireless possible and/or feasible? PXE boot over Wireless?
I am looking to implement (if possible/feasible) the ability to image a PC and Mac via our wireless network. Is this actually possible? I have read multiple documents that newer Macbook Airs can do ...
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Workstation is not accepting image
I am in the process of a Win 7 migration using MDT and the last workstation is having a problem reimaging. I am getting an error message saying the installation was canceled windows cannot not ...
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Wyse Z Class Thin Client (WES7) Image Deployment
We are currently working on deploying a few Wyse WES7 thin clients (Z Class, exact model escapes me at the moment).
We have WDM setup, and are able to see new clients show up, interact with them, ...
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Write an image to an external hard disk in Windows 7
As you may already know, Windows Vista SP2 and up (includes Windows 7) block raw disk write access. Is there a way, short of patching the kernel, to override that block? So in cygwin I can do e.g. cat ...
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Image a Windows PC using Linux
I want to create a bootable USB disk (like Clonezilla) and create images which are saved as GHO/GHS
I also want to restore images back to the PC and do the following tasks (if possible)
Rename the ...
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Windows 7 install in small office
I have 6 new computer in a primary school that arrived with Win 7 installed. I have to put them on our domain, but I also have to install all sorts of programs on them.
With Win XP I always cloned ...
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Automated Server cloning and deployment
I have an ERP system that requires a local installation on a Windows Terminal Server to operate properly. Right now I pay for each TS that I have the vendor install the software on directly. ...
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Sysprep system started up
We sysprep'd our newest xp install and restarted to image it. Our tech missed getting it to boot into the usb drive for imaging. Is there anyway to leave the install now without it giving a bootup ...
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NT 4 inaccessible boot device
We have two NT4 SP6 machines that are identical. One of them went down and gives a bsod on boot with 'inaccessible boot device'. We assumed the hard drive went bad. So we attempted to take an image of ...
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Taking image of a VPS to run locally
How can i take image of my ubuntu running on a VPS and then make it run on my local machine?
I have access to my VPS via ssh as root user.
Taking an image of it and making it run on local machine ...
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PXE-E32 TFTP Open Timeout While Attempting to PXE Boot from Windows Deployment Services
I'm running Windows Deployment Services on Windows Server 2008 R2 on top of an ESX 4.0 box. This is the only function of this VM instance, although it had previously functioned as an AD Domain ...
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Sysprep rearm set to 1 and shouldn't have been. Any workarounds for automatic activation prior to the 30 day period?
I work for a fairly large school. We are deploying 850 tablet PCs to students starting tomorrow (Windows 7 Enterprise with a MAK). We have imaged all of these machines with our standard student image ...
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disaster recovery plan for server migration
We are migrating from a DC and Exchange 2003 on an old Win 2003 server to Win 2008 R2 and Exchange 2010 in a virtual env.
We are worried hardware failure in our old server when we install adprep and ...
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Windows Deployment Server and Re-Re-Imaging via PXE Boot
I'm just getting the hang of trying to configure/use Windows Deployment Services (WDS) to image Windows 7 workstations on our network.
I have the WDS server configured so any machine can request an ...
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Rebuilding failed WDS & MDT server… Do we need to change DNS, DHCP or AD?
My colleague and I are experimenting with replacing Ghost with WDS (Server 2008 R2 SE) and MDT 2010. I intially built the virtual machine and added the WDS service but at the time I also imported ...
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Proper Imaging Procedures to Restore and Deploy Image with Separate System Reserved Partition
UPDATE: As per my experience here, no one responded. If I do not hear back from TechNet forum members about it, I will post a bounty here, if it makes a difference.
I have banged my head against a ...
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Live updating running linux OS instance by unpacking disk image
I have couple of servers running off of an usb stick each. Servers are basically hypervizors.
What I was thinking of doing is distributing binary updates in form of downloading system image and ...
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make Windows 7 install compatible built-in driver when imaging or with GPO?
I have a device that has had no specific driver released. In Device Manager, if I choose
Update Driver... --> Browse my computer driver software --> Let me pick from a list of device drivers on my ...
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Recommendations for OS management and deployments in a portable lab?
Are there any general recommendations for managing OS's on a portable laptop cart? The cart will be taken to educational labs and used for teaching job skills to prisoners. We want to reset all the ...
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Create an iso file of EC2 backup on s3?
I just create an AMI instance of EC2 and than upload it S3 using following command:
1.ec2-bundle-vol -d /mnt -k /root/PrivateKey.pem --cert /root/Certificate.pem -u 012345678901
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Open Source Live Migration (Clone/Imaging)
I want to do a live migration of my Fedora and Windows Server 2003 into raw disk image without restart the server or shut it down. (disk image is for virtualization purpose) Is there any open source ...
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IDE compatability with SATA image
We had an old CNC machine's hard-drive fail recently. The hard-drive is an old 1275MB IDE (Seagate) and there were defiantly bad sectors on it. I was able to image the contents of the drive onto a ...
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Windows Server 2008 - Disk Imaging program wanted [closed]
Can anybody please suggest a good disk imaging solutions for Windows 2008 Server? The software should be capable of incremental backups, FTP storage and handling the Windows Server 2008 default ...
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Can you use the Windows 7 WAIK and procedure to image Vista?
Can you use the Windows 7 WAIK and procedure to image Vista?
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How do I restore a .nbi NetRestore image to a Mac?
I need to image a set of Mac machines with the same image of Mac OS plus some pre-installed and configured software.
I created a base installation on a USB disk and imaged it as a NetRestore image ...
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Remotely Managing Windows Machines
So I'm curious about managing remote windows xp/or windows 7 boxes. Basically, I want to be able to lock the computers down so that junk doesn't get installed and disk space wasted (restart should ...
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RPCSS kerberos issues on imaged Windows workstations
While doing some unrelated troubleshooting (at least I think so, shared-printer issues) I came across a set of Event Log entries that have me concerned.
Machine Name: labcomputer82
Source: ...
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What's the best way to store an image?
I am attempting to create my own one-off imaging utility based on fedora and I have one main question. The utility (well, in theory) will save a raw image of the machine to a network storage ...
