Vista - Naming a computer in Windows Deployment Services...

Hi Everyone,

Is there anyway to make Windows Deployment Services prompt you for a
machine name when adding it to the domain? I have an unattend file that will
install Vista silently on the network but it gives a random name. I want to
be able to type in the computer name. Is that possible? I looked at the xml
example
<ComputerName>MyComputer</ComputerName> but I need it to prompt.


Thanks,
Ross

Hi,
We have exactly the same problem on our site. There's no dilog presented by
the wds-client-setup procedure within the Installationimage of PE. There
should be the same options like in OSChooser.

The next problem is, that existing AD Computeraccounts with an existing
netbootGUID attribut will not be used when installing with wds-client. A new
account will be created.
The logfile in %windir%\panther tells, that there is an ldap request to get
information about an existing AD Computeraccount. But this information will
not been used by the following setup-stages.
The new AD computeraccount doesn't habe a netbootGUID attribute set by WDS.
Obviously their is no BINL-Service in use by PE/Vista.
So how will existing AD Comuteraccounts be used by WDS?

"Ross" wrote:

> Hi Everyone,
>
> Is there anyway to make Windows Deployment Services prompt you for a
> machine name when adding it to the domain? I have an unattend file that will
> install Vista silently on the network but it gives a random name. I want to
> be able to type in the computer name. Is that possible? I looked at the xml
> example
> <ComputerName>MyComputer</ComputerName> but I need it to prompt.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Ross

I am having the same issue. I want to specify the computer name prior to
joining the domain.

Currently it joins the domain with a random name the the Windows welcome
prompts me for a name and then the trust relationship is lost due to the name
change.

Any assistance would be appreciated.

"Carsten" wrote:

> Hi,
> We have exactly the same problem on our site. There's no dilog presented by
> the wds-client-setup procedure within the Installationimage of PE. There
> should be the same options like in OSChooser.
>
> The next problem is, that existing AD Computeraccounts with an existing
> netbootGUID attribut will not be used when installing with wds-client. A new
> account will be created.
> The logfile in %windir%\panther tells, that there is an ldap request to get
> information about an existing AD Computeraccount. But this information will
> not been used by the following setup-stages.
> The new AD computeraccount doesn't habe a netbootGUID attribute set by WDS.
> Obviously their is no BINL-Service in use by PE/Vista.
> So how will existing AD Comuteraccounts be used by WDS?
>
> "Ross" wrote:
>
> > Hi Everyone,
> >
> > Is there anyway to make Windows Deployment Services prompt you for a
> > machine name when adding it to the domain? I have an unattend file that will
> > install Vista silently on the network but it gives a random name. I want to
> > be able to type in the computer name. Is that possible? I looked at the xml
> > example
> > <ComputerName>MyComputer</ComputerName> but I need it to prompt.
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Ross

I totally agree... Making machine prestage seems painful in my environment,
to much time would be invested in finding typing then retyping the long
GUIDs. I would also like to have the machine to be placed in different OUs
in Active Directory.


Ross

"John N" wrote:

> I am having the same issue. I want to specify the computer name prior to
> joining the domain.
>
> Currently it joins the domain with a random name the the Windows welcome
> prompts me for a name and then the trust relationship is lost due to the name
> change.
>
> Any assistance would be appreciated.
>
> "Carsten" wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > We have exactly the same problem on our site. There's no dilog presented by
> > the wds-client-setup procedure within the Installationimage of PE. There
> > should be the same options like in OSChooser.
> >
> > The next problem is, that existing AD Computeraccounts with an existing
> > netbootGUID attribut will not be used when installing with wds-client. A new
> > account will be created.
> > The logfile in %windir%\panther tells, that there is an ldap request to get
> > information about an existing AD Computeraccount. But this information will
> > not been used by the following setup-stages.
> > The new AD computeraccount doesn't habe a netbootGUID attribute set by WDS.
> > Obviously their is no BINL-Service in use by PE/Vista.
> > So how will existing AD Comuteraccounts be used by WDS?
> >
> > "Ross" wrote:
> >
> > > Hi Everyone,
> > >
> > > Is there anyway to make Windows Deployment Services prompt you for a
> > > machine name when adding it to the domain? I have an unattend file that will
> > > install Vista silently on the network but it gives a random name. I want to
> > > be able to type in the computer name. Is that possible? I looked at the xml
> > > example
> > > <ComputerName>MyComputer</ComputerName> but I need it to prompt.
> > >
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Ross

Hi,
another strange thing why I believe that the PE-bootimage integrated WDS-Client
is only in an early beta stage is, that there is a naming policy which can be
configured as wds server option (Directory-Tab). The default systemvariable is
set to '%61Username%H'. Why isn't the variable used by the wds-client to set the
computername? The wds client asks for the credentials to logon to the wds-server
so that an installation image can be interactively chosen.

Ross wrote:
> I totally agree... Making machine prestage seems painful in my environment,
> to much time would be invested in finding typing then retyping the long
> GUIDs. I would also like to have the machine to be placed in different OUs
> in Active Directory.
>
>
> Ross
>
> "John N" wrote:
>
>> I am having the same issue. I want to specify the computer name prior to
>> joining the domain.
>>
>> Currently it joins the domain with a random name the the Windows welcome
>> prompts me for a name and then the trust relationship is lost due to the name
>> change.
>>
>> Any assistance would be appreciated.
>>
>> "Carsten" wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>> We have exactly the same problem on our site. There's no dilog presented by
>>> the wds-client-setup procedure within the Installationimage of PE. There
>>> should be the same options like in OSChooser.
>>>
>>> The next problem is, that existing AD Computeraccounts with an existing
>>> netbootGUID attribut will not be used when installing with wds-client. A new
>>> account will be created.
>>> The logfile in %windir%\panther tells, that there is an ldap request to get
>>> information about an existing AD Computeraccount. But this information will
>>> not been used by the following setup-stages.
>>> The new AD computeraccount doesn't habe a netbootGUID attribute set by WDS.
>>> Obviously their is no BINL-Service in use by PE/Vista.
>>> So how will existing AD Comuteraccounts be used by WDS?
>>>
>>> "Ross" wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Everyone,
>>>>
>>>> Is there anyway to make Windows Deployment Services prompt you for a
>>>> machine name when adding it to the domain? I have an unattend file that will
>>>> install Vista silently on the network but it gives a random name. I want to
>>>> be able to type in the computer name. Is that possible? I looked at the xml
>>>> example
>>>> <ComputerName>MyComputer</ComputerName> but I need it to prompt.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Ross

Ross, did you find answer for this question, I need to configure my
server to the same...Can you help me?


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