Deployment Solution

Hey guys - anyone seen this:  

Upon trying to restore a disk image to a PC, when I manually use rdeploy, the restore notes as successful, but upon reboot the machine is BSOD'd.

Using the same disk image, however, with the Deployment Console and a preset job, which uses rdeployT when it runs, the job completes fine and the PC is just fine as well.

I tried this on the same, known good, PC - obviously the DC job first, successfully, because upon manually running rdeploy I got the BSOD yet again.

This, of course, is problematic because if I can't get to the PC via the deployment console, then that means I can't restore it? Yikes.

Anyway, ever seen that happen before? 

I'm using Altiris version 6.8

Hi,

Have you checked which parameters are different between your manual deployment and the Sample job? There are multiple switches you can / should be using if you want to run RDeploy thru either a script from the DS console or a DeployImage job.

When checking default settings against the jobs (predefined and manually created), I think you will find that the sample job has some settings different to the one you manually create...

-BBC

Thanks for the note...I was probably vague when I said "preset" job - it wasn't a sample one, but one that I've created and used many times before (actually, I've manually used rdeploy many times before as well; this is a new wrinkle that's just cropped up).

HOWEVER - it did get me thinking, and I took a note of the specific switches/flags used in redeployT during the automatic jobs and tried running rdeployT manually with the identical (well, similar at least) switches -- and so far (in 2 attempts) this has been successful.

So it DOES look like something changed somewhere in the graphical rdeploy.  Hrm.  At least now I can restore all the PCs I bricked during my experimentation :) and then dig a little deeper once I get some breathing room.