ADS image capturing issue
got an error capturing an remote image using microsoft automated deploument service (ADS):
the capture job failed with the error message:
“Device or service connection does not exist”…
Here is the sequence what I did:
(1) on the reference win2003 system (remote target), installed ADS admin agent and started it
(2) on the remote target, create a directory C:\sysprep, and c:\sysprep\i386. copied sysprep.exe and other sysprep binary files to the i386 directory; copied a sysprep.inf file to c:\sysprep directory
(3) on the ADS controller, using ADS managemnt tool, added a device for the remote target, by manually entered the MAC address and ip of the remote target .
(4) took control of the device, then run job with a “image-capture-win2k” template created with the sample job sequence:
<sequence version=”1″ description=”capture image” command=”capture-image-w2k.xml” xmlns=”http://schemas.microsoft.com/ads/2003/sequence“>
< !– STEP 1 sysprep step –>
<task description=”sysprep target” doesReboot=”true”>
<command>c:\sysprep\i386\sysprep.exe</command>
<parameters>
<parameter>-quiet</parameter>
<parameter>-reboot</parameter>
</parameters>
</task>
< !– STEP 2 boot to deployment agent –>
<task description=”Boot to deployment agent” doesReboot=”false”>
<command>/PXE/boot-da</command>
</task>
< !– STEP 3 capture image –>
<task description=”Capture image” doesReboot=”false”>
<command>/IMAGING/imgbmdeploy.exe</command>
<parameters>
<parameter>”hat”</parameter>
<parameter>\device\harddisk0\partition1</parameter>
<parameter>”image description”</parameter>
<parameter>-c</parameter>
<parameter>-client</parameter>
</parameters>
</task>
</sequence>
and the error occured at the first step: the sysprep step..
followed MS instructions, searched from googles, tried various ways but still no luck….Headache 🙁
