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	Replies: 4 - Pages: 1 - Last Post: Nov 5, 2009 2:33 PM Last Post By: tonyxu

tonyxu

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Registered: Oct 29, 2009 08:55:05 PM

Sysprep and TPMfOSd
Posted: Nov 02, 2009 07:33:08 PM

I tried TPMfOSd, it seems without doing sysprep, we couldn't take the image.

For the old rembo, we take the image without doing sysprep, and it will have all the information. Later we have some script to customize the individual PC later. So after remboing, the user can have a system just work without doing any configuration job.

Right now, everytime after sysprep, when we start a new deployment, once the system starts, it will always ask for Product Key. This is very annoying.

Is there a way to automate this procedure?

Martin Carnegie

Posts: 625
Registered: Nov 06, 2006 01:15:07 PM

Re: Sysprep and TPMfOSd
Posted: Nov 02, 2009 10:41:24 PM

in response to: tonyxu's post

It is possible to capture an image without running sysprep (at least up to 7.1.0, have not tried in 7.1.1), but this is not the recommended way of doing it.

When you run sysprep and then capture the image, it should populate the system profile with the product key automatically. This can be set in the system profile also in the Windows tab.

I have not had an issue with the capture of a system and the product key not being populated yet, so not sure how you are getting this issue.

Martin Carnegie
Gulf Breeze Software
http://www.gulfsoft.com

tonyxu

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Registered: Oct 29, 2009 08:55:05 PM

Re: Sysprep and TPMfOSd
Posted: Nov 03, 2009 03:09:56 PM

in response to: Martin Carnegie's post

Hi Martin,

Thanks for your quick response. Here is the procedure I use.

1) On the template machine A, I run sysprep with mini-set and reseal it, (per user guide), the machine will be shut down.

2) At TPMfOSd console,
- Target Monitor, highlight the template machine A
- Start Admin Toolkit

3) power on the template machine A, it will enter the admin screen.
- click the "Create New Image"
- Follow the on screen instructions to take the image.
- Save the system profile, I call it "profile1"

4) Back to the TPMfOSd console I click through the System profile and select "profile1"

5) Configure "Microsoft Windows XP" (that's the OS from the template machine)
- It shows OS configuration Details screen
- I am able to put Windows Product Key, user name, time zone all those information.

6) Now I go to the "Target Monitor" Screen, and select target machine B, right click and select "Deploy Now"
- It prompted me two profile configuratons
- Configure OS configuration (I assume I shall select this one)
- Profile
Actually I tried both configuration, the result is same.

At first, there is dialogbox showing on target machine B, complaining missing agt0407.hlp and ask for XP install disk. I clicked cancel, then it brings up the Windows Product Key page, asks me to input Product key.

Did I do anything wrong, or missed any steps?

Thanks a lot,
Tony

Martin Carnegie

Posts: 625
Registered: Nov 06, 2006 01:15:07 PM

Re: Sysprep and TPMfOSd
Posted: Nov 05, 2009 11:44:52 AM

in response to: tonyxu's post

Ok first step I would change is 2. The current method of doing this is the following (from http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/tivihelp/v3r1/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.tivoli.tpm.osd.doc/deploy/tosd_cloneimage.html)

1 Open the Web interface, go to the menu and select Profiles. go to Server > OS deployment > System Profiles.
2 Click New Profile. This opens a system profile wizard that guides you through the steps of creating a profile.
3 Select Cloning from a reference image file and click Next.
4 Select the corresponding image format and click Next.
5 Follow the instruction of the profile wizard. If you have a volume license, select Volume licensing, no product key required on the product key screen of the wizard

At step 5, I am not sure if you are saying that the key dialog is not populated and you enter a key, or if there is an existing key and you modify it. If you are modifying it, then I wonder if the key you set is valid for the install of XP, or at least the XP you are trying to install.

For that agt0407.hlp, I have not seen that specific file, but I have seen others that will report as missing at install. This was usually because some default option may not have been selected. I did not see this on full XP, but on WePOS (POS version of XP). What you can do is manually add this file to the system profile by uploading it to the image. The only problem is that there will most likely be other files. A weird thing XP does is that when you press cancel it seems to ignore other files that do not exist. You then end up distributing the image again and you will see another file missing. I had this happen with a bunch of .fon and .nls files.

Anyway, see if using the other capture method works for you and post the results.

Martin Carnegie
Gulf Breeze Software
http://www.gulfsoft.com

tonyxu

Posts: 8
Registered: Oct 29, 2009 08:55:05 PM

Re: Sysprep and TPMfOSd
Posted: Nov 05, 2009 02:33:42 PM

in response to: Martin Carnegie's post

Thanks Martin,

What I tried first is exactly what you mentioned below. That's on the user guide.

Unfortunately it doesn't work at all.

I followed the instructions to create a new profile form System Profile at the console. The console is in the state of waiting for the target machine response, then eventually timed out.

So, next thing I tried is while the console waiting for the target machine, I rebooted target machine. This time I got the splash screen of TPMfOSd, then enter a state that the splash screen said it is an unknown OS, with 2 buttons "reboot" and "shutdown", reboot will bring back to the same state, and shutdown will shutdown the machine.

I at least tried more than 10 times, same result. That's why I tried "Launch Admin toolkit", at this stage, I will get the Admin Screen on the target machine, then I am at least able to create the image. There is no error showing through the image creation stage.

Thanks,
Tony

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