Creating Job to winpe and exit
Updated: 23 May 2010 | 2 comments
How can I go about creating a Deployment job that will boot machines into a custom Winpe, then tell the DS server that it was successful so it will complete the job.
I want to be able to use Altiris DS server to boot several machines into a custom winpe that I created, the problem I am having is finding a task or something to run that will DS that the job is done and successful.
Once these systems boot into the custom winpe and run some actions it will completed be disconnected from Altiris altogether.
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It sound like you need anothe task.
James,
If booting into the Custom WinPE disconnects the client from DS, then maybe adding a followup task in the job is what you need.
Your first task in the job would not be considered done until the client reconnects to DS by exiting your Custom WinPE. At that point a simple script or a reboot call could be the last task in the job that would be executed. After it was done, then the job would be considered complete and successful.
Hope that helps,
Shansen
Shansen
RE: Creating Job to winpe and exit
There are two ways u could your own WinPE ( i am assuming WinPe 2.1)
1. Create your own PXE boot configuration. Then via the PXE configuration utility create a "User supplied" PXE boot files.
2. Create a new PXE WInPE 2.1 boot configuration. Note the MenuoptionNumber. Something like Menuoption161. Find the boot.wim and replace it with your own.
Create a job and assig the winpe boot option to the one u created above.
Nelson
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