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1 gig. Well if they did test it correctly then I wouldn't have this problem. I have tried integrating SP2 into Server 2003 but when I use it with the Dell OpenManage Server Assistant installation it doesn't work. Says the CD is damaged. Is there any way I can get a hold of a Server 2003 with SP2 CD? Our LEA says they only have pre-sp2 official VLM CDs. I am deperate! Can anyone ISO theirs for me or something? If I can't source a CD or integrate SP2 properly then I'll have to try a manual install using the SP2 integrated W2k3 CD that won't work in the Dell software.

Dell probably only test their servers with integrated SP2 so when s Server 2003 gold user comes along all hell breaks loose!

ah it's ok bud, I didnt have much installed plus I'd like to start from scratch so I know it's fresh. Think I got the integration right, I'll post my results incase anyone else has a similar issue. If this doesn't work then a Dell enginner is going to come out and slap me.

Have started fresh twice and it made no difference. I tried different variables each time but no luck. Rang Dell today about the issue as I have set up 2 other server identical to this using identical settings and CDs and had no problems. The guy at Dell said he has only ever had one other person with this issue and they got around it by using a Server 2003 CD with SP2 integrated as it is something with the Windows RAID drivers. Apparently if I set up the server manually rather than using the Dell server installation CD again using an integrated sp2 server 2003 CD it will fix the issue too. So I am busy now trying to figure out how to slipstream SP2 into my Server 2003 CD. I have done this with XP including all updates but finding it more difficult than XP.

but it be cleaner to wipe and start again or should i use a system restore. I have never restored server 2003, what's the procedure.... don't understand how this has happened it is bizarre, never seen this happen before on any computer ever! The computer management console says 30gb clear as day yet windows sees the 4.7gb grrrrrr arrrrghhhhhhhhh

The strangest thing happened today and has me completely stumped... I set up the 3rd new Dell Poweredge this month today. All of them installed great using the Dell installation CD and I set the C: partition to 30gig and the D: partition to over 200gb. Anyway. I use C for system and some system software. I had the whole server setup and went to install .net 2.0 and it said only 266mb of drive space on C: was available! So I went to my computer and sure enough, the C: drive is only a total of 5gb! How can this be when I set it in the dell utility before I installed windows to 30gb? So then I right clicked My computer and manage and then disks and in there it shows the C: partition as 30gb??? What has happened here and how can I get my fill 30gb without formatting the partition as I will lose 4 hours work. Anyone seen this before? Fingers crossed it is a simple fix!

I am wanting to install Knowledge box and it's dependencies (Acrobat, quicktime etc) quickly onto all our machines. Knowledgebox comes with an installation batch file that uses hot keys to automate the installation of the programs etc.. I believe this means that I can't simply run the .bat file on each client from a pre log on. I think I need to have every machine logged on and then run this batch file. Is there a way to mass log on every computer in school with say a manager username and password so that I can run this batch file?

you mean it can't do that automatically? heh

When I link a GPO to an OU at which point will it be applied? When the computer starts up or when a user logs on? I am deploying software while no one is in school so no one will be logged on. Now I linked a GPO to an OU for a classroom and I rebooted the machines several times but it did not apply. Then I logged onto 2 machines in that room and the software and gpo settings were applied. I then rebooted those machines and the other 2 in that room and the 2 I logged onto previously seem to have applied the GPO and the two I did not log onto have not applied it. Is there a way to have the GPO apply before machine is logged on?

looks like the time is wrong though.

sounds like fun! Congratulations on getting it back up!

Ok... I have created a Capture Boot Image using the right click and named it XP Pro but when I boot a client from the network is does not have the option to capture an image?

Wow, I will try that, didn't realise there was a context menu there, I thought I had right clicked everything! I will try that but it says x64 architecture all the time, I think our machines are x64 but the Windows XP I am using is 32bit, hope that still works! I'll try it and report back!

I am totally lost on how to do this. I can install windows via WDS but I have no idea how to set this up (server side or client side) to create an XP image to be deployed. I understand that you must sysprep the machine of course like with any imaging software and then boot to network and create the image however when I boot a client machine on the network I get two options. 1. To install Longhorn x64 2. RIS I was expecting an extra option here, is this correct? If this is not correct can someone please explain to me what images to use for boot to get this option to create an image. Well I select the longhorn one it wants to install longhorn, when I select the RIS one it wants to install XP but all I want to do is create an image not install either of them. My guess is that I have the wrong boot images, I did have to playa round with them before I got any clients to boot via the network, I just set the WIM files on the Vista x64 DVD as the boot images as the ones listed initially didnt correspond to anything. Please can someone explain what i am doing wrong and how to fix it. I really want to use WDS but I feel myself going back to Acronis Cheers in advance guys! John

See it deploys the packages itself too. I will have to have a dig about. If it does create MSIs then I'm laughing. If not then I need another solution to create them.