OSD Questions

[mib147]

I am running SMS 2003 SP1 on Windows 2003 SP1 servers. I have two OSD questions.

When I watched the web cast on the OSD, under the properties of a program, there was a state capture tab. This tab allowed you to sepecify a network location and supply credentials to store the state capture. I just downloaded and installed the OSD in December. I do not have this tab. Does anyone know if they removed this tab in the second release? Is anyone else experiencing this?

During the post install procedure, I am trying to overwrite the existing sysprep.inf. I have tried using both VBscript and a SMS installer script with no luck. The reason I am trying to do this is so I don't have to create a different image for a system that supports hyperthreading. This sysprep.inf is exactly the same as the one on the image except I add this line to the unattend section:

UpdateHAL=ACPIAPIC_MP, c:\windows\inf\hal.inf

Does anyone know if this is possible? If it is possible will it overwrite what the OSD has added to the sysprep.inf?

 

[tbrennans]

there are some MS guys (and other very bright individuals) that know osd inside and out at this mail list... Be ready for 40+ emails a day from that list though :-D

http://lists.listleague.com/mailman/listinfo/mssms/

 

[mib147]

Thanks tbrennans. I got the answer to one of my questions from my Microsoft TAM.

When I watched the web cast on the OSD, under the properties of a program, there was a state capture tab. This tab allowed you to sepecify a network location and supply credentials to store the state capture. I just downloaded and installed the OSD in December. I do not have this tab. Does anyone know if they removed this tab in the second release? Is anyone else experiencing this?

"That feature was in the OSD Beta and later removed due to security concerns with saving state to a network location. These issues are discussed in the OSD User's Guide. SMSv4 will provide full support for securely storing state to a network location.

 

[tbrennans]

Thanks for the answer!