Symantec Management Platform (Notification Server)

Need a solution as to why diskpart clean is not running via a task.  This prevents us from deploying Windows 7 properly with Altiris 7.1. We are able to successfully deploy Windows 7 via Altiris 6.9 using the same script.  

In altiris 6.9 we are calling on a .txt file named "dpclean.txt".  Here are the contents of the file:

Select disk 0

clean

In Altiris 6.9, the .txt file is located in .\Libarary\dpclean.txt.  This is the command that we run to call on the file:

diskpart /s ".\Library\dpclean.txt"

In Altiris 7.1, we've created the same file and placed it in the same directory our image files are located on a 2008 site server.  The directory is: \\site server\deployment\task handler\image

I've created a run script task with the following command:

REM DISKPART CLEAN

diskpart /s "\\site server\deployment\task handler\image\dpclean.txt"

PAUSE

The "PAUSE" command is for troubleshooting purposes and to see what errors appear.  

This is what appears "diskpart was unable to open or read the script file".  

Any ideas or suggestions is appreciated as I'm fairly new to the Altiris 7.1 world.  

I think your problem is that the PECTAgent running the diskpart command can't access the \\site server unless you completely relax share and folder permissions on it.

You could have your Run Task make a local dpclean.txt file.

Make the task contain this:

REM DISKPART CLEAN

echo Select Disk 0 > dpclean.txt

echo clean >> dpclean.txt

diskpart /s dpclean.txt

pause

This would make a file called dpclean.txt in the root of the automation partition disk.

This way you could still maintain what is in the dpclean.txt file in one place instead of having to replace files.

Thanks for the replies all!  It looks creating the script locally did the trick.  The permissions were going to be my last resort as we would have had to clear that with our security folks.  Again,  thanks for the help!