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June 2008 - Posts - sccm

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June 2008 - Posts

PXE in SCCM : Issues & Bugs

And the story continues around the famous OSD Deployment . It worked flawless after I strugled the last time @ the test lab at the customers , now we moved it to production and gues what happend ...right , it did not work

 After opening the smspxe.log it showed me this error :

 <![LOG[Closing image file C:\RemoteInstall\SMSImages\SMSPKG\PGN00028\boot.PGN00028.wim]LOG]!><time="15:15:09.963+300" date="03-18-2008" component="smspxe" context="" type="1" thread="860" file="wimfile.cpp:291">
<![LOG[Mutex was not owned. Now have ownership.]LOG]!><time="15:15:09.963+300" date="03-18-2008" component="smspxe" context="" type="0" thread="860" file="TSBoot.h:671">
<![LOG[Unable to delete directory C:\WINDOWS\TEMP\PXEBootFiles\Windows\Boot\PXE (0x80070005).  Continuing.]LOG]!><time="15:15:13.176+300" date="03-18-2008" component="smspxe" context="" type="1" thread="860" file="ccmfile.cpp:992">
<![LOG[Unable to delete directory C:\WINDOWS\TEMP\PXEBootFiles\Windows\Boot (0x80070005).  Continuing.]LOG]!><time="15:15:13.176+300" date="03-18-2008" component="smspxe" context="" type="1" thread="860" file="ccmfile.cpp:992">
<![LOG[Unable to delete directory C:\WINDOWS\TEMP\PXEBootFiles\Windows (0x80070091).  Continuing.]LOG]!><time="15:15:13.176+300" date="03-18-2008" component="smspxe" context="" type="1" thread="860" file="ccmfile.cpp:992">
<![LOG[Warning: Failed to copy the needed boot binaries from the boot image C:\RemoteInstall\SMSImages\SMSPKG\PGN00028\boot.PGN00028.wim.
Cannot create a file when that file already exists. (Error: 800700B7; Source: Windows)]LOG]!><time="15:15:13.176+300" date="03-18-2008" component="smspxe" context="" type="3" thread="860" file="bootimagemgr.cpp:1060">

I looked into the c:\windows\temp folder  but no PXEBootfiles folder to see...The Windows\Temp\pxebootfiles does not exist. Should it? Or is this a red herring? I looked it up under a command promt with Attrib command and yes a hidden folder where nobody had access to ..

The problem was goofy ACLs on the c:Windows\temp\pxebootfiles. When I attempted to revised security, I got an Access is Denied message. Once the above directory was deleted, the SMSBoot folder would populate when the bootimage was refreshed on the PXE point.

 I reported it as a bug @ the SCCM product team ...

 Kenny

 

The Virtual Data Center: VMM will manage VI3 infrastructure
In het first key note of MMS 2008, VP Bob Muglia talked about  Dynamic IT: Transforming Management and the Data Center. He confirmed that most of us already understood: Virtualization is the way to go, especially for Data Center environments. The announcement of the VM Manager Beta 2 release was followed by a short demo that showed SCVMM managing a heterogenous VM environment of Windows Hyper-V and ESX servers.  For ESX, VM Man drills into the VM tools installed on the VM machine so you are actually able to perform a guest-OS migration between ESX host servers.
 
Kenny