Deploying a Custom Windows 8 Build with MDT 2012 Beta 1
Many of you would have recently downloaded and installed the Windows 8 Developer Preview over the past week or two. While deploying from the source...
A couple of times now, I’ve had trouble getting a Hyper-V 2008 R2 guest to PXE boot. Even if I move the network adapter to the top of the list, the boot process still skips straight back the network boot. So I was having a bit of a poke around in the VM settings, when I noticed and option to add either a ‘network adapter’ or a ‘legacy network adapter’.
So I deleted the existing ‘network adapter’ and created a new ‘legacy network adapter’.
Sure enough, my virtual machine successfully PXE booted right away.
Later, I created a new virtual machine and noticed the option to ‘install an operating system from a network-based installation server’. I selected this option, completed the wizard, opened the VM’s settings and wouldn’t you know it, the wizard had created a VM with a ‘legacy network adapter’ this time.
Unable to Parse Unattend.xml
If you use the same MDT Deployment Share to deliver LiteTouch builds to both physical and virtual machines, then you may have come across this one...
Odd Behaviour from Hyper-V Virtual Networks
I recently found myself scratching my head trying to resolve an issue with one of our Hyper-V 2008 R2 host. The network in question had a number of...