This is one that you'll deal with sooner or later, Windows XP Service Pack 3 is a valid example (requires a reboot after install and therefore produces an exit code of 3010 or 0x80070bc2 Your task sequence will interpret the return code and act upon it by restarting your install before continuing but this may not be your desired result. To get around this you need to wrap the original program in...

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Ever wanted to prompt a user for a password prior to the Task Sequence doing it's job, well you can and this is how I do it [ in WinPE ] create a blank text file in notepad called promptforpassword.wsf paste the following into it <job id = "PromptForPassword" > <script language = "VBScript" > Dim env , oTSProgressUI , MyPass Set env = CreateObject ( "Microsoft...

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I saw this today on Technet and wanted to share it, blog it, long story short a guy was having problems joining his Windows 7 computer to the domain, he was specifying an OU and we later found out, his domain level was Windows 2000 native. After requesting to see his netsetup.log file (which logs domain join failures into c:\windows\debug\) the following was observed 07/21/2010 08:30:58:226 NetpMapGetLdapExtendedError...

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