We just set it to one hour for testing, that fixed things. We’ll have to lower it, once I have OSD working, we should have a better idea of how long the lease needs to be.

What did they end up changing the lease time to? Is the build subnet a /24? Maybe you could have them expand it to a /23, which would give you 512 IPs? Just a thought ...

-Trevor

Yeah, they had it set that way for when we get  300 new computers in and have to image a bunch at a time. Before, there weren’t enough available DHCP addresses when we would swap them out.

Wow, that really is short.

By the way, this article outlines what I was thinking:

http://www.tcpipguide.com/free/t_DHCPLeaseRenewalandRebindingProcesses-3.htm

-Trevor

It was set to 5 minutes.

Interesting … I thought that DHCP clients would send out a request at intervals, based on the lease time, to ensure that the IP address wasn’t lost. I thought it occurred at like 50% and 85% of the lease time or something. I can’t seem to dig up the info I’m thinking of, but I know I read it somewhere at some point. How short was the lease time?

-Trevor

Turns out our network admins had our DHCP lease time set purposely short on our setup VLAN. We had issues getting addresses a while back when setting up multiple machines at one time. They bumped the lease time up and WinPE maintained the same IP and was able to finish setup. Now I just have to get the drivers working properly.

Thanks all!

Mike

I’ve seen similar problems when the port fast on the switch isn’t set correctly. One way to validate is to plug a small 4/8 port switch into the network and then run from that to your system that you are testing OSD on.

This is an OptiPlex GX280 with a Broadcom 570 NIC. Talked to our network guys and they’ve increased the lease time on our VLAN. I’ll try again shortly.

That sounds possibly like the Unable To Apply error I posted on this morning.  What hardware model and NIC is this happening on for you?

I just found when this is happening. About 2/3 of the way through the OS image being applied (the screen has 2 progress bars during this step, the bottom one lists the filename.wim), it goes from having a valid IP to the auto IPv4 address, which is wrong. So it seems to be dropping it during the OS apply process. I’m going to run it again and look at the log.

ok let me see if I understand you Mike.

So you are saying that the image applies (which implies that you DO have a network connection) then when the drivers task fires it fails because it doesn't have a connection?

If that is the case then it doesn't make much sense since (unless you reboot immediately after applying the image) you should still be in WINPE and should still have a connection to the network.

I would suggest that you add the command prompt to your boot image and when it gets to that point you hit f8 and run an IPconfig and see what you have then run notepad and look at your logs.

The DHCP address should not be dropping just because you applied an image unless you reboot immediately after applying the image then booting to the loaded image.

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From: "Murray, Mike" <MMurray@csuchico.edu>
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Subject: RE: [mssms] RE: OSD - 0x80072ee7 error applying drivers

Right, and when it tries to apply the drivers, it cannot. So, is there anything I can do to fix this?

" If your local IP address is returned as 169.254.y.z with a subnet mask of 255.255.0.0, the IP address was assigned by the Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA) feature of Windows XP Professional. This assignment means that TCP/IP is configured for automatic configuration, that no DHCP server was found, and that no alternative configuration is specified. This configuration has no default gateway for the interface. "

Anyway my guess is that the nic drivers for the WinPE are good since you are using the Dell pack (Vista Drivers),
but you dont have the correct XP drivers after the image is applied so DHCP cant connect after the reboot.


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From: "Murray, Mike" <MMurray@csuchico.edu>
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Subject: [mssms] RE: OSD - 0x80072ee7 error applying drivers

Also, I've applied the entire Dell WinPE driver catalog to my WinPE image.

I've gotten to the point where my PXE boot installation is firing off the TS. When it gets done applying the OS image, it attempts to apply the drivers but cannot connect to the server. I checked the IP address, and it's getting a 169.254.xxx.xxx address, which isn't part of our network. The gateway is correct, though.

This page suggests that it might be a setting on our switch, but we checked the settings and this is not the case:

http://blogs.technet.com/configurationmgr/archive/2008/12/09/configmgr-2007-task-sequence-may-fail-to-run-with-error-code-0x80072ee7.aspx

Since I can't get a good IP address I can't upload the log to a file server for review. Any ideas?

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