Dos_Box Posted March 19, 2007 Posted March 19, 2007 Please note that SP2 installs WDS by default and breaks RIS. If you are running RIS do NOT deploy SP2 to these servers just yet until you are familier with WDS. There is more info an a fix (which didn't work for me) here. Nothing on TechNet yet. http://forums.techarena.in/showthread.php?t=706832
woody Posted March 19, 2007 Posted March 19, 2007 'Win 2K3 SP3 Breaks RIS' Nice subject heading Dos_Box! I know Microsoft have to bring out service packs as a matter of course, but 2 in just over a week!!!! I am not surprised!!!
Ric_ Posted March 19, 2007 Posted March 19, 2007 'Win 2K3 SP3 Breaks RIS' Nice subject heading Dos_Box! I know Microsoft have to bring out service packs as a matter of course, but 2 in just over a week!!!! I am not surprised!!! The almighty Dos_Box has too many more important matters on his mind to check for typos!
Geoff Posted March 19, 2007 Posted March 19, 2007 If only there was a grammar checker extension for Firefox...
ChrisH Posted March 19, 2007 Posted March 19, 2007 It did a peculiar thing to my DHCP as well where it seemed to awake dormant setting from when I was using boot images for thin client tests ages ago. I ahd to go in and disable those options properly.
tosca925 Posted March 19, 2007 Posted March 19, 2007 We had this problem the first day SP2 was installed. I found a fix on the net, (will dig it out later) Can't get to your article DOS as our LEA has banned it... lol
john Posted March 19, 2007 Posted March 19, 2007 It has been well documented that SP2 automatically replaces RIS with WDS, all you need to do is activate WDS on your box and away you go (on a very simple level!) Going to take the plunge tomorrow once my RIS box has finished backing up.
NetworkGeezer Posted March 19, 2007 Posted March 19, 2007 If only there was a grammar checker extension for Firefox... How would that help? A grammar checker wouldn't know about Microsoft's service pack release schedule.
contink Posted March 19, 2007 Posted March 19, 2007 It has been well documented that SP2 automatically replaces RIS with WDS, all you need to do is activate WDS on your box and away you go (on a very simple level!) Going to take the plunge tomorrow once my RIS box has finished backing up. Erm... Going to go out on a limb here and ask "where" this "well documented" upgrade is erm... "well documented"... If I hadn't heard about it on here I'd be finding out the hard way after applying it and breaking stuff.. :?
Gatt Posted March 19, 2007 Posted March 19, 2007 Erm... SP2/WDS fubar's RIS when first installed What you also need (and aren't told about before hand) are: WAIK (At 1GB!!) BDD 2007 Vista Install DVD Google Patience! (Plenty of it!!!) It took me ages to find out how to get the PXE client working, in the end i found that you need the boot.wim file from a Vista DVD - that at least got Legacy RIS working Then took me ages to realise that you need BDD to create a Boot image to install Vanilla Windows XP!! Still working out the right way to create (Capture) a new Image from a machine (know it involves Sysprep) Overall though, I'm rather impressed with WDS ...
tosca925 Posted March 19, 2007 Posted March 19, 2007 We never went through all that to get it working, i'l try and find the post on google i used tomorrow.
Gatt Posted March 19, 2007 Posted March 19, 2007 Cheers - only porblem with WDS at moment is in converting someof my legacy images fails with an error stating that an "error has occured" error and a error number of 80360051 - again nothing on the 'net or docs to imply what the error is that has occured :|
Ric_ Posted March 19, 2007 Posted March 19, 2007 I just ran the RIS validation check which then upgraded and activated the WDS stuff - the service start failed but after a manual restart of the Remote Installation Service all was well - it's only in legacy mode but that is all I need for now.
markcuk Posted March 19, 2007 Posted March 19, 2007 if you mean after you press f12 you no longer get the blue logon screen... you have to change the boot images section in wds in the x86 section i changed mine to boot from remoteinstall\oschooser\i386\startrom.com but you play around and choose the other ones and they will get rid of the press f12 part after the workstation has been given and ip address cheers mark
john Posted March 19, 2007 Posted March 19, 2007 It has been well documented that SP2 automatically replaces RIS with WDS, all you need to do is activate WDS on your box and away you go (on a very simple level!) Going to take the plunge tomorrow once my RIS box has finished backing up. Erm... Going to go out on a limb here and ask "where" this "well documented" upgrade is erm... "well documented"... If I hadn't heard about it on here I'd be finding out the hard way after applying it and breaking stuff.. :? I should have been more acurate with that statement, I appologise, but if you have read anything in advance on SP2 you would have seen that for a long while they have been saying that RIS is discontinued and WDS will take over from it and SP2 will auto upgrade your RIS install to WDS etc. I saw that at least 6 months ago on the MS website, but if you don't read up loads on these things before they happen and just put it on you will get the problem, although it is listed in the top 10 reasons to put SP2 on your box.
ajbritton Posted March 19, 2007 Posted March 19, 2007 It has been well documented that SP2 automatically replaces RIS with WDS, all you need to do is activate WDS on your box and away you go (on a very simple level!) Going to take the plunge tomorrow once my RIS box has finished backing up. Erm... Going to go out on a limb here and ask "where" this "well documented" upgrade is erm... "well documented"... If I hadn't heard about it on here I'd be finding out the hard way after applying it and breaking stuff.. :? It's mentioned in the 'What's new in SP2' blurb on the MS website.
Dos_Box Posted March 20, 2007 Author Posted March 20, 2007 Considering they hardly fanfared SP2s' arrival and it was awkward to find for a while it is lucky we even found the download, let alone the main page for it. It may be visible now, but on release day there was little or no info available.
srochford Posted March 20, 2007 Posted March 20, 2007 I think that Microsoft have found in the past that the world goes mad when a new service pack etc is made available and if they make a big fuss about the launch then all the servers collapse under the strain. By not making a big fuss but just quietly releasing it as part of the normal monthly patch cycle it was picked up in smaller quantities (eg as I understand it the BITS process will not only not saturate your connection when downloading but can be told to hold off downloading particular updates until the server is less busy). The docs were available on the MS website a couple of weeks before the actual SP was available - I'd guess that this is so people have time to read them (what??? You're supposed to RTFM???) before downloading and breaking things :-)
Geoff Posted March 20, 2007 Posted March 20, 2007 Also remember that they were reeling from the backlash from the DST patches they released. http://news.google.com/news?q=DST%20patch%20microsoft
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