How to Know You are Using Scripts from MDT 2010 November 17, 2009
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We’ve had a few emails over the last few weeks where certain variables or actions in the task sequence in MDT 2010 were either not functioning at all or were not behaving as expected. After looking at the log files, it was pretty clear that a mixture of MDT 2008 boot images were being used with MDT 2010. So how can you tell if you are using a MDT 2010 boot image? The easiest way to tell is to look in the bdd.log file. IN MDT 2010 we added a version line to each of the scripts that are run so if in the first 15 or so lines of the BDD.LOG you do not see this: Microsoft Deployment Toolkit version: 5.0.1641.0 , then your boot images are probably running scripts from MDT 2008.
To fix this you would, right click on the DeploymentShare and choose Update. Then you would choose Completely regenerate the boot images as shown below:
Now that your boot images are updated you will either need to burn new CDs or re-import the boot images into WDS
- Tim Mintner
Solving an Intermittent Format Problem November 17, 2009
Posted by tmintner in MDT 2010, Troubleshooting.Tags: Disks, Format, MDT, Troubleshooting
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I received and interesting email yesterday from someone who was performing Lite Touch deployments and it seemed that randomly his deployments would fail at the Format and Partition Disk step in the task sequence. Examining his BDD.LOG showed this error:
FAILURE ( 7705 ): command: FORMAT.COM C: /FS:NTFS /V:OSDisk /Y /Q FAILED with error = 4
The first step I had him do was reboot the computer and run through the steps that the script ztidiskpart runs manually. Those steps are:
- Boot in Windows PE
- Press F8
- Run diskpart
- select disk 0
- clean
- create partition primary
- assign letter=c:
- active
- exit
- format c: /fs:ntfs /v:OSDisk /Y /Q
Again the format command failed. He then immediately tried the format again and it worked. So this was truly an intermittent problem. My suspicions went up that this was driver related and had him check what kind of storage controller is in the laptop and it was the lovely Intel Matrix Storage Driver. I checked Intel’s web site and had him download the new driver from here: http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?agr=Y&DwnldID=17882&lang=eng
After removing the old Intel Matrix Driver from his Deployment Workbench, adding this one back in, and regenerating his boot images it worked!
It was a great lesson for both of us and now hopefully you won’t have to go through as many steps. If you ever run into any intermittent format or partitioning problems start investigating the storage driver!
- Tim Mintner
