Posts Tagged WDS
Windows could not parse or process unattend answer file (c:\windows\panther\unattend.xml) for pass [specialize]
Posted by Terje Skulstad in Software, Windows on July 28th, 2010
Got this error during setup of Windows Deployment Services on Windows 2008 R2. I used a standard boot.wim and install.wim file for the install. After doing som backtracking I found out that I had misconfigured a setting for the automatic naming of the machine name in the domain. I had used NN-%username-%# in the WDS properties, and that caused the machines to all trying to use the same name (NN-administrator-1).
After changing to NN-%username-%03# the problem was solved.
Move the Remoteinstall folder in Windows 2008
Posted by Terje Skulstad in Software, Windows on July 14th, 2009
When I set up my testserver I only had one disk available. Afte a while it started filling up, so I added a second disk to it. To move the RemoteInstall folder from the Windows Deployment Services in 2008 while keeping all the settings I followed this procedure:
Using elevated privileges Start –> Run –> cmd
Run WDSUTIL /uninitialize-server
The copy the RemoteInstall folder to the new location (in my case D:\)
Run WDSUTIL /Initialize-Server /RemInst:C:\RemoteInstall
That’s it!
Your WDS storage is now moved to the new location. Needless to say, but you should now check to see that your still able to PXE boot and install images.