Yesterday we set up an Windows Server 2008 R2 on a HP DL380 G7 to run Symantec Altiris for deployment. However, whatever we did, it just didn't work! The computers couldn't PXE-boot. After a lot of googling and testing, we finally found the problem: On the physical NICs, you need to turn of Checksum Offload, Large Send Offload and TCP Connection Offload. It's possible that you don't need to turn off all of these services, I didn't have the time [...]
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Java has become a little bit of a nightmare to deploy and looking for answers on Google doesn’t make you much wiser since people states all kinds of things in different forums. Therefore, I’m going to make my best to clarify how it works in Java 6 (1.6.0). Previous versions (1.5.0) supported silent install switches like JAVAUPDATE=0. However I've been reading through the silent switches documentation for Java 1.6.0 and have been unable to find anything equivalent at all to [...]
Categories: Deployment
On my thread about deployment on virtual hosts, someone wondered if it works on the Xen Hypervisor, the answer is... no. MDT is not able to detect XenServer as an Hypervisor. However... there's another way get it work: Execute the following command on a server installed on a XenServer: wmic csproduct get name You will hopefully get this output on a XenServer 5.6: HVM domU If you get something else, that’s fine, just write it down, exactly as its spelled. [...]
Categories: Deployment
