Viewing 802.1x configurations under Windows Vista

For those of you that looked like mad to find 802.1x configurations in Microsoft Windows Vista…please don’t lose hope. Help is on the way.

This is just a quick tip so you don’t waste more time looking for it.

- Open the services mmc (start -> run -> services.msc)
- Find the Wired AutoConfig service
- Start it and/or change its default start to automatic
- Go to network connections and view your Local Area Connection properties
- A new tab is there, called Authentication.

That’s all!

Best regards!

Deciphering MDT Error/Return Codes

Sometimes it may be difficult to understand the error codes given by the Litetouch deployment during installation.
For example:

Non-zero return code executing command "C:\MININT\Tools\X86\TsmBootstrap.exe" /env:SAContinue, rc = -2147467259

The return code is always in decimal mode, so for an easy “translation” you should convert them to an hexadecimal value and look to the last 8 numbers.

80004xxx - This are generic error and you should look to the installation log files.
80007xxx - This are errors where the explanation can be found using helpmsg.

For example:
8007005 = Access is Denied

This can be very helpful when you have no idea why your litetouch deployment is crashing.

Why some hotfixes aren’t added to OS Packages

This week after downloading a series of hotfixes I realized that there werer 2 hotfixes that I was not be able to publish on the OS Packages section of MDT Workbench.

After some Technet help the problem was that 2 of the 27 hotfixes were not correctly downloaded and no error appear on the Workbench console.

Documentation for Windows Deployment Services in Windows Server 2008

Like always, the need for something shows us various paths…

This week after a lot of WDS issues, like always, because of the lack of knowledge, I needed to find some information about how to install a Windows Vista through WDS and not letting it add the machine to the domain.

After a lot of search and talking with ours Microsoft Technical Account Manager (TAM) he gave me this link with very good information regarding Windows Deployment Services:

WDS Role Overview

Hope you enjoy it too!