Troubleshooting Windows 7 Deployments Michael Niehaus Senior Program

Troubleshooting Windows 7 Deployments Michael Niehaus Senior Program Manager Microsoft Corporation

An introduction

A range of solutions Configuration Manager 2007 SP 2 / 2012

Typical errors

Getting to the root cause

Log Files

Windows 7 and Windows Vista http: //support. microsoft. com/kb/927521

Windows 7 and Windows Vista

Windows PE

Windows Deployment Services http: //support. microsoft. com/kb/936625

Useful logs

Useful logs http: //technet. microsoft. com/en-us/library/bb 932135. aspx

Common Issues: Windows 7

Bad computer name How to shoot yourself in the foot

Mismatched product key

Broken domain join http: //support. microsoft. com/kb/944353 IBM, acronym, “broken as design”

Domain join issues Insanity is doing the same thing over and expecting a different result.

Domain join issues

Crashes http: //support. microsoft. com/kb/307973 http: //support. microsoft. com/kb/324103 http: //support. microsoft. com/kb/2008373 Blue screen pictures

demo Windows Setup Failures

Common Issues: Windows PE

Networking issues

Common Issues: Microsoft Deployment Toolkit

Task sequence doesn’t resume in new OS http: //blogs. technet. com/b/deploymentguys/archive/2009/12/03/sysprep-machine-sidsand-other-myths. aspx

Task sequence failure causes issues for the next task sequence

Unable to find SETUP

Task Sequence Failures Red herring

Catalog generation error http: //technet. microsoft. com/en-us/library/dd 744500(WS. 10). aspx

Common Issues: Config. Mgr OS Deployment

Task Sequence Failures

Windows is running from D: WINDOWS

Hash mismatch

Packages not available

PXE boot issues

PXE boot issues http: //support. microsoft. com/kb/2019640 http: //h 18013. www 1. hp. com/products/servers/management/rdp/knowledgebase/00000138. html http: //blogs. technet. com/smsandmom/archive/2008/09/17/configmgr-2007 -troubleshooting-pxeservice-point-issues-and-wds-service-not-starting. aspx

demo Troubleshooting Config. Mgr PXE Booting

Troubleshooting Techniques

demo Troubleshooting Techniques

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