Problems with RIS

[Kyle]

I have been to a primary today and have come across a RIS problem. I have only used RIS a few times and it has been normally to image a new room or re-image a room after the machines have been deleted from the domain.

 

This morning i started re-image a suite of 20 PC's I went back lunch time and 3 had failed. I went to re-image them again and when i came to give them the same machine ID it refused to let me. It came up with a error saying that the user account i was using could not or did not have the rights to rename the account.

 

Well first thing , I was logged on as the domain administrator account to use RIS and secondly i was giving the computer the same name again.

 

I googled and read about delegation of control on OU's but i thought as i was using the domain administrator account to add the computers i would not have a problem.

 

Any one else had a problem?

[ChrisH]

I get that sometimes. It is usually because the GUID of the account in AD does not match the GUID of the machine. I usually just delete the account from AD then restart the RIS process.

[Kyle]

I did this today, just seems a pain having to either go back to the server or log onto another pc and remote the server.

[john]

Once for some reason the admin account i was using to run RIS had got locked out, probably a monday morning or friday evening and fat fingers syndrome