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We are starting to deploy the new Quad-Quad Dell R900 servers here (16 cores) via BDD 2007. We have had great success with the Dell PowerEdge 2950, which uses a similar Braodcom dual-driver NetXtreme II...
Many of you folks probably attended the session at TechEd on building a single master image. There was a sample script in there about replacing the HAL. Based on that script and other knowledge gleened...
Microsoft Windows PE 2.0 is an improvement over the previous versions of Windows PE. This new version is built on the Vista kernel and has updated components. But with this upgrade come a couple of caveats...
Interesting title. I guess you can see my frustration with task sequences as they are used in BDD 2007. The Deployment Workbench is where the problem lies, especially in how it lets you screw up task sequences...
Okay, on with the continuing saga. So far, I've managed to get Windows PE 2.0 to recognize my "unique" network card. Now, when it boots into Windows Server 2003 after completing setup, I discover that...
While using BDD 2007, which uses WinPE 2.0, I had a strange issue. BDD 2007 would call the DISKPART.EXE and FORMAT.COM commands to partition and format a RAID-1 volume and install an OS onto it. This seems...
Okay, last time I discussed how to get plug and play enumeration to fully discover all resources. That's just fine. One of those resources, however, is a serial-attached-SCSI (SAS) RAID card that has the...
As I indicated before, I'm going to include some of the information that I've learned about adapting BDD 2007 for server operating system deployment (specifically Windows Server 2003). The first trial...
For the past year or more, we have been using the automation in BDD 2.5 to deploy our server operating systems. This has been a great deployment tool for us and I'm looking forward to adapting BDD 2007...