marsdenprimary Posted January 9, 2013 Posted January 9, 2013 Hi, I've successfully managed to image some of our machines but they're getting stuck as they are not applying the Computer Config settings. Checked in gpupdate and they're getting the user settings but not the computer ones from AD. Why? Checked DNS and the forward addresses are there but nothing in reverse lookup. Could this be it? What can i do? Do i need to re-join them to the domain?
marsdenprimary Posted January 9, 2013 Author Posted January 9, 2013 Have they been sysprepped correctly? Now then. I don't know what that means. :/ I did do the sysprep thing on the pc getting imaged... did i need to sysprep all the others too that were having the image applied??
Guest Guest Posted January 9, 2013 Posted January 9, 2013 Network not coming up in time? Search this forum for mediasense It's a reg key
marsdenprimary Posted January 9, 2013 Author Posted January 9, 2013 Getting this from gpupdate /r: The processing of Group Policy failed. Windows could not resolve the computer na me. This could be caused by one of more of the following: a) Name Resolution failure on the current domain controller. b) Active Directory Replication Latency (an account created on another domain co ntroller has not replicated to the current domain controller).
m25man Posted January 9, 2013 Posted January 9, 2013 Check your DNS/DHCP and clean it up. Depending how you have it setup machines can register themselves with DHCP/DNS with random-minint names. Your reverse DNS becomes polluted with ambiguous IP/NetBios names then GPs all go pear shaped until the DNS gets scavenged. Check this 1st clean up the DNS reboot the PC see what happens. 1
marsdenprimary Posted January 9, 2013 Author Posted January 9, 2013 Check your DNS/DHCP and clean it up. Depending how you have it setup machines can register themselves with DHCP/DNS with random-minint names. Your reverse DNS becomes polluted with ambiguous IP/NetBios names then GPs all go pear shaped until the DNS gets scavenged. Check this 1st clean up the DNS reboot the PC see what happens. Giving it a go now...
marsdenprimary Posted January 9, 2013 Author Posted January 9, 2013 ...didn't seem to work. Still getting the same message. How frustrating! So close but no cigar!! Any other ideas?
marsdenprimary Posted January 9, 2013 Author Posted January 9, 2013 These are Windows 7 machines by the way with a 2008 server
Ergo Posted January 9, 2013 Posted January 9, 2013 Daft question maybe, but is the client machine being given the IP address' of your internal DNS servers for name resolution? Have you tested that your AD domain name, and DC server names resolve correctly using these DNS servers? nslookup domainname.tld nslookup DCname.domainname.tld Should both resolve correctly, almost instantly and with no errors Dave
marsdenprimary Posted January 9, 2013 Author Posted January 9, 2013 Daft question maybe, but is the client machine being given the IP address' of your internal DNS servers for name resolution? Have you tested that your AD domain name, and DC server names resolve correctly using these DNS servers? nslookup domainname.tld nslookup DCname.domainname.tld Should both resolve correctly, almost instantly and with no errors Dave Yep resolving no problem... I have a sneaking suspicion it is something to do with the way the PC has joined to the domain... Just checking it now. Removed / rejoined to see if that sorts it.
marsdenprimary Posted January 9, 2013 Author Posted January 9, 2013 Okay. Removed and rejoined- STILL NO JOY!? This makes me sad. I thought it would be much less time consuming and simpler than this to deploy an image... Do you recommend changing the computer name?
Ergo Posted January 9, 2013 Posted January 9, 2013 That would be a good investigative approach. Before you do, is there anything in the event log relating to authentication errors on the domain before the error about accessing the DC for GP refresh? Dave
marsdenprimary Posted January 9, 2013 Author Posted January 9, 2013 That would be a good investigative approach. Before you do, is there anything in the event log relating to authentication errors on the domain before the error about accessing the DC for GP refresh? Dave nothing I can see What do you suggest now? Total rebuild??
Ergo Posted January 9, 2013 Posted January 9, 2013 I would; remove the machine from the domain, reboot, rename it, reboot, add to the domain, reboot, test for problem. Yes that is tedious but the reboots will make sure nothing strange is going on. If after the above it works, the problem probably relates to a computer account already in the domain of the original name, or part of the process of renaming and adding to the domain you have configured in WDS. If after the above it does not work you probably have a slightly more complicated problem with your image which is preventing networking or domain operations from working correctly. I would go back to your image and see if that works. Hope that helps. Dave 1
marsdenprimary Posted January 9, 2013 Author Posted January 9, 2013 I would; remove the machine from the domain, reboot, rename it, reboot, add to the domain, reboot, test for problem. Yes that is tedious but the reboots will make sure nothing strange is going on. If after the above it works, the problem probably relates to a computer account already in the domain of the original name, or part of the process of renaming and adding to the domain you have configured in WDS. If after the above it does not work you probably have a slightly more complicated problem with your image which is preventing networking or domain operations from working correctly. I would go back to your image and see if that works. Hope that helps. Dave Sadly- the above doesn't work so it must be the image. Harumph! Thankyou for your help on this. It's the first time i've ever used WDS to capture / deploy an image so i must have mucked it up somewhere.
marsdenprimary Posted January 10, 2013 Author Posted January 10, 2013 What OS is this as it doesn't say. See post #9
sonic1485 Posted January 10, 2013 Posted January 10, 2013 When the imaged machines were rejoined to the network were they put in the correct OU in AD?
Tsonga Posted January 10, 2013 Posted January 10, 2013 If you have time, add MDT 2012 to the server for deployment. Best deployment/capture tool on the planet, plenty of documentation, from Microsoft and free 2
ricki Posted January 10, 2013 Posted January 10, 2013 (edited) Hi Is the nic card in the client a 1 gig card. see http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2421599 create a notepad doc and put this in it Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon] "GpNetworkStartTimeoutPolicyValue"=dword:0000003c save it a gpodelay.reg log onto the client as administrator and double click the file and insert it into the registry. then reboot and see if that fixes the error, If this does not work it might be a corrupt image. When you installed this machine you did wipe it and all the partitions before you started and installed from original disk and not the manufactures install. Some companies like dell put extra partitions on the machine for restore and I have had problems either taking an image or group policies not applying. Richard Edited January 10, 2013 by ricki 1
marsdenprimary Posted January 10, 2013 Author Posted January 10, 2013 CRACKED IT!!! Turns out the original image I captured must have been corrupt or something. I decided to follow these guides again: SYSPREP: how can I sysprep Windows Vista ? - Deploying Windows XP, Vista, Server and more... - www.windows-noob.com CAPTURE: how can I CAPTURE an Image using WDS - Windows Deployment Services (WDS) - www.windows-noob.com DEPLOY: how can I DEPLOY an image captured using WDS ? - Windows Deployment Services (WDS) - www.windows-noob.com It feels like such a faff doing all this, many, many forums and technical tips for this and that and at the end of the day- it was just a corrupt image. Thanks for all your help everyone. Not sure why the image was corrupt or not working properly as i've been round the houses and back on this one and can't tell my backside from my elbow now. If only there were some script or ANYTHING that did all this for you... You put in everything you want installing, domain joining, where etc... (in really basic, simple language) into a visual display and then press GO. x
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