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More news from this issue - we thought it was sussed but seems it wasn't. I deleted some machines from the AD last night and set about rebuilding the 32bit installs to 64 bit - came in this morning and our of 7 machines, only one had succeeded. The rest were all showing 4 attempts at joining the domain. A quick test of rebuilding with our 32 bit image worked straight away. Really, really strange. What is funny is that during the build when updates from WSUS are being applied I can manually join the domain to the network using the same credentials as MDT. It then proceeds to build as normal. Gareth

Whoops. I knew I'd see it somewhere. Gareth

Cheers everyone. Appreciated as always. Gareth

Evening All, Anyone know of a UK supplier of these devices?: http://www.oberonwireless.com/hard-lid_wall-mounte​d-access-point-enclosures.php#model1032 I need to put an Aruba 105 Access Point in our school gym and need a protective case for it. Cannot find a UK supplier - thought I'd ask here before spending hours searching. Cheers Gareth

Thanks for this. We're just starting our on our HyperV journey so interesting to read. Gareth

Thanks everyone for their advice and notes on here. We've ordered two HP servers today and due to budget cuts will have to create our VMs on these as the SAN purchase is a no go at the moment. There may be more funds in the next couple of weeks as we reach the end of the school year but I cannot guarantee it. I am holding out for an HP SAN but if the full budget doesn't get released then I will get a cheaper one - maybe a QNAP. I think the plan will be to run HyperV12 on the physical machines with our servers running 2008R2 - which is what our LEA is just reaching :-) Thanks again, Gareth

I wasn't sure. Can you export your Task Sequence? I'll post my error log here tomorrow. Gareth

Good shout - I'll try this tomorrow with a machine that has finished rebuilding. Thank you Gareth

Anyone got one or is going to get one? Rather sad - but I want one. Gareth

Seems we've sorted it. When re-imaging the machine using MDT I have to remove the previous instance from the OU/AD otherwise it cannot re-join or re-claim the name. This is odd as I don't have to do it when re-imaging with our 32 bit image. Only the 64bit image. There must be a way to get the machine to force itself back on. Oh well. Gareth

Morning All, Last week I started experimenting with 64bit Win7Ent and MDT. We have it working fine with our 32bit image and it's great. We are now in a position to take the 64 bit version across our site. However - for some strange reason the 64bit image will not join the domain. It makes 4 attempts before stopping. The machine then proceeds to build without any issues. It is picking up network drivers without issues just not joining the domain. I've basically copied the same Task Sequences as the 32 bit install. The machine is picking up the correct name from the MDT database, installing all the drivers as well. Got me stumped. So any advice is appreciated. Gareth

How about this? MDT 2012 and Custom Partition Formatting Gareth

Morning, I updated the firmware and noticed no change on my desktop admin machine. I had to go and teach for the rest of the day. I'll start again later today. Cheers Gareth

We haven't joined it to the domain. Don't really need to from what I can tell. 1.64 nearly downloaded. I'll let you know how it goes. Gareth

Are you on the 1.64 firmware? Gareth

That is interesting. We too use an image from MDT which I build in July. Yet 64 bit DVD works fine. However - some machines get the drive without any issue. Gareth

Ahaaaaa - a firmware upgrade from 1.62 to 1.64 - let's see what that does. Gareth

Interesting. I'll check to see if there is a firmware update. I can browse to the Buffalo webserver/admin panel through my browser. Gareth

No - we have sync turned off by GPO across the site. Gareth

Sync? Sorry - don't get you. This was a freshly build 32 bit Windows7 Ent machine. Re-build two weeks ago. Weirdly enough when I was testing 64bit Windows on my machine it could seen the IP. Tell me more about sync? Am I being a bit thick here? Gareth

Yip. Tried that. Pings fine. IN addition other machines are seeing the drive. We have a GPO that maps certain directories to certain drives. For example one GPO maps our Media drive to Z:\ for every member of staff and admin. It's a weird issue. We thought maybe one of the other GPOs was cutting it off - but I cannot even browse to the drive through the Start Menu and \\ GJE

We have an odd issue here with a few Windows 7 machines. Hopefully someone can help. We have a Buffalo drive on the network and have given it an ip address. On the drive are 3 shared folders - all standard stuff. Now some machines can see the drive via IP address but some cannot. My machine - I enter the IP \\10.180.8.18\ and expect three directories to be listed (I am domain admin) - but my machine cannot even see the drive. Any help appreciated. We thought it could be a GPO but then this would affect every machine. Gareth

Anyone fancy creating me a cartoon logo that represents a running geek? Cartoony - someone running whilst using a laptop or ipad etc etc For my new personal blog. Cheers Gar

Many schools are using Kodu as part of their Gifted and Talented provision. Anything which provides some sort of computational thinking. Small Basic is another one. Microsoft Research TouchDevelop is now being seen in some schools - https://www.touchdevelop.com Regards Gareth

Hi there - my good friend Edward O'Reagan has done this and provides excellent notes about it here: yfory.cc weather Regards Gareth