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Yes, you can update your virtual reference machine overtime, however you will need to account for product activation. Depending on the licensing model that you company uses the manner in which you accomplish this could vary. I would suggest activating the virtual machine if you intend to use it and update it overtime.

Ok, I'll see what my colleagues say about charging each client for 1 additional license, so their base image has that functionality.

Basically though for me, I was hoping to have 1 base image, that when I then need to build for a new client I can modify that one to suit ; looks like I won't be able to

I've got another 20 machines to deploy tomorrow, so will test and report back!

Ok, it didn't seem to work.

I tried doing it using cmd /n as well (as per ).

The option I choose for it was "After image is applied" rather than before applied, and whatever the other 2 or so options were.

If after the install I try run it manually, it gives an error on Line 14, Char 25.

"Object required: objnode, Code: 800A01A8, Source: Microsoft VBScript runtime error".

When an image has been created ; if you then want to go in 3 months later and apply the latest Windows Updates to it, it doesn't let you as Windows complains about activation.

Is there a way around this, or can you only modify your original image for a small amount of time?

It looks like GPO wasn't deploying properly (even though we ran a manual gpupdate /force) ; it wasn't disabling the built in Windows Firewall etc.

After a bit of mucking around, it looks to be working now.

Assuming it is on the root of the drive you booted to SmartPE with, then yes it should work.

I've got another 20 machines to deploy tomorrow, so will test and report back!

For the phase of the task you will want to specify after image is applied. You can prefix with cscript.exe or wscript.exe, or just put the path to the script, all should work.

When booting %SmartDeploy_Media% is set as an environment variable that points to the boot device, which you can use to specify the path to your script. The [AnswerFolder] variable is essentially the same thing but will not work when calling a task.

Thanks,

Erik

Ok, so essentially I could just put

%SmartDeploy_Media%\uk-localise.vbs and it should work?

Just another question based on:

Should I be using %SmartDeploy_Media% rather than [AnswerFolder]\uk-localise.vbs ?

Thanks!

Hello Daniel,

Currently SmartDeploy only has support for the specific language packs that are included with Windows 7, XP etc... That list should be what is defined at this site: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd744369(WS.10).aspx. The UK localization settings are not included, but they can be set when deploying your image. If you are deploying Windows 7 you can copy the code from below add it to a vbs file and then set it to run as a post image task from the advanced options of the Deploy Wizard. If you are deploying a different operating system or run into any problems please shoot support an email at support@smartdeploy.com and we can answer your questions.

UpdateXML "T:\windows\system32\sysprep\unattend.xml"
UpdateXML "T:\windows\panther\unattend.xml"

Sub UpdateXML(StrFileName)

        Set xmlDoc = CreateObject("Msxml2.DOMDocument.6.0")

        xmlDoc.Async = "False"
        xmlDoc.Load(strFileName)

        xmldoc.setProperty "SelectionNamespaces", "xmlns:bk='urn:schemas-microsoft-com:unattend'"
        set objnode = xmlDoc.selectsingleNode("//bk:InputLocale")

                        objnode.text = "en-GB"

        xmldoc.setProperty "SelectionNamespaces", "xmlns:bk='urn:schemas-microsoft-com:unattend'"
	set objnode = xmlDoc.selectsingleNode("//bk:SystemLocale")

			objnode.text = "en-GB"

        xmldoc.setProperty "SelectionNamespaces", "xmlns:bk='urn:schemas-microsoft-com:unattend'"
	set objnode = xmlDoc.selectsingleNode("//bk:UILanguage")

			objnode.text = "en-GB"

        xmldoc.setProperty "SelectionNamespaces", "xmlns:bk='urn:schemas-microsoft-com:unattend'"
	set objnode = xmlDoc.selectsingleNode("//bk:UserLocale")

			objnode.text = "en-GB"

        xmlDoc.Save(strfilename)

End Sub

Thanks,

Erik

Do I choose "After image is applied" ? Also, do I need to prefix it with cscript.exe ?

Do you receive any specific error? Like unable to locate the network path? I would check that simple file sharing is disabled on the XP machines, and that Windows 7 machines are on a network identified as a domain network. You might also want to check the advanced sharing options in Windows 7, this and the network identification are found in the Network and Sharing Center. Other than that maybe see if there is a firewall blocking anything.

If you are still having problems you can send us over the netsetup.log from c:\windows\debug and we can check to see if there were any problems in the domain join process.

If you need specifics on how to change any of the sharing settings listed above let me know.

Thanks,

Erik

I'll check on Monday which is when I'm next on-site.

Thanks!

That's great, I'll give it a try tomorrow as I move onto my next SmartDeploy rollout!

Just one question ; should I be changing T: at all ?

Hello Daniel,

Currently SmartDeploy only has support for the specific language packs that are included with Windows 7, XP etc... That list should be what is defined at this site: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd744369(WS.10).aspx. The UK localization settings are not included, but they can be set when deploying your image. If you are deploying Windows 7 you can copy the code from below add it to a vbs file and then set it to run as a post image task from the advanced options of the Deploy Wizard. If you are deploying a different operating system or run into any problems please shoot support an email at support@smartdeploy.com and we can answer your questions.

UpdateXML "T:\windows\system32\sysprep\unattend.xml"
UpdateXML "T:\windows\panther\unattend.xml"

Sub UpdateXML(StrFileName)

        Set xmlDoc = CreateObject("Msxml2.DOMDocument.6.0")

        xmlDoc.Async = "False"
        xmlDoc.Load(strFileName)

        xmldoc.setProperty "SelectionNamespaces", "xmlns:bk='urn:schemas-microsoft-com:unattend'"
        set objnode = xmlDoc.selectsingleNode("//bk:InputLocale")

                        objnode.text = "en-GB"

        xmldoc.setProperty "SelectionNamespaces", "xmlns:bk='urn:schemas-microsoft-com:unattend'"
	set objnode = xmlDoc.selectsingleNode("//bk:SystemLocale")

			objnode.text = "en-GB"

        xmldoc.setProperty "SelectionNamespaces", "xmlns:bk='urn:schemas-microsoft-com:unattend'"
	set objnode = xmlDoc.selectsingleNode("//bk:UILanguage")

			objnode.text = "en-GB"

        xmldoc.setProperty "SelectionNamespaces", "xmlns:bk='urn:schemas-microsoft-com:unattend'"
	set objnode = xmlDoc.selectsingleNode("//bk:UserLocale")

			objnode.text = "en-GB"

        xmlDoc.Save(strfilename)

End Sub

Thanks,

Erik

That's great, I'll give it a try tomorrow as I move onto my next SmartDeploy rollout!

I have never come across this before, is the machine being added to the domain and is the domain admin listed as an administrator on the computer you are trying to access?

Thanks,

Erik

Hi Erik,

The machine is manually added to the domain and Domain Admins is listed in the local Administrators group.

All the machines that have been deployed using SmartDeploy no longer work using C$ and a Domain Admin account. If we use a local admin account on the machine, it works fine...... All other Windows 7 and Windows XP machines that were built "the old way" ie. not via SmartDeploy still work as usual.

Has anyone ever come across this before?

Is there a way to set English (United Kingdom) as the Region Language / Locale ? I tried changing (United States) in the smartdeploy.xml (as UK is not an option when running through the wizard) however that doesn't seem to work.

Cheers,

Daniel.