Anyone want to take a crack at this? __________________ Todd Povilaitis LAN Administrator Huntington Hospital [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: (626) 397-3392 Fax: (626) 397-2901
-----Original Message----- From: Todd Povilaitis Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2004 12:23 To: ActiveDir (E-mail) Subject: [ActiveDir] netbootGUIDs and Remote Installation Services I need the advice of the experts! I have an issue that occurs infrequently but is something I would like to understand and solve once and for all. [The scenario] Our technicians use RIS to generate new OSes. The vast majority or our machines have PXE compliant ROMs, but a few require the "RISDISK" generated with rbfg.exe. We have encountered what appears to be a quality control problem originating with the OEMs (Compaq/HP, Toshiba, NEC), where the UUID is occasionally duplicated in the ROM among a batch of like computers. RIS flags the new machine with a Duplicate GUID message the process cannot proceed. This is desired RIS behavior and the source of the offending duplicate can be identified. The computer is exchanged for an alternate. [The problem] It appears that from time to time our technicians halt, kill or otherwise interupt RIS. The result is that a computer object is not created and subsequent attempts to "re-RIS" the same machine result in a Duplicate GUID message. Installation cannot proceed. [The question(s)] * If the netbootGUID is a property of the computer object, and there is no computer object, how am I supposed to find the duplicate netbootGUID value? I've searched all over AD with ldp, adfind, & ADSI/COM based scripts looking at existing and tombstoned objects. I've come up empty handed. * Will allowing the Restart option via group policy alleviate this problem? If so, why? How is RIS obtaining it's information? __________________ Todd Povilaitis LAN Administrator Huntington Hospital [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: (626) 397-3392 Fax: (626) 397-2901 List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
