Deployment Solution

Altiris 6.9 SP3 upgraded from 6.9 SP2

First off I have everything working on XP machines but when I try to boot to the automated partition on a windows 7 machine, Winpe2.1 will get bypassed and the machine reboots about three time trying to completed the job and ends up at the login screen. I thought it may have been the hidden partition causing the issue so I tried the following script.

I tried variation of this script as well with no luck.
bcdedit /store c:\boot\BCD /set {bootmgr} device boot
bcdedit /store c:\boot\BCD /set {default} device PARTITION=D:
bcdedit /store c:\boot\BCD /set {default} osdevice PARTITION=D:


working with that for a bit but then decided to just romove the hidden partition. I still have the same issue. I thought it could have been a permission issue so even though the Altiris account has domain admin privilages I put the Altiris domain account in the administrator group on the local machine.

I am out of iedeas her and would apreciate any assistance.

Thanks


Update = My buddy figured out that installing the WinPe2.1 environment manually works. after installing automated partition manually the Win7 machine boots into the partition just fine. Any suggestions? We have tried putting the Altiris domain admin account in the local admin group but still does not work.



Thanks

- Haller

You need to do this via Copy File\ Run script task

1. copy your automation partition executable to the client computer via copy file job
2. Run script :
REM installing Automation Partition
CD %SystemDrive%\TEMP
Start %SystemDrive%\TEMP\<name of .exe>

--- This needs to be executed using :specified user i.e. account that has admin rights on the local machine


Hope this helps!

Thanks for your reply i apreciate it. Does it have to be in the C Drive or can we run it from a tools folder from within the "Windows" folder?

Our first attempt faild. We are going to try the TEMP folder in the C drive to see if it makes a difference.






Thanks,

After a bit more testing we discovered that you have to be logged in as a console user to execute the exe as console user. I dont know why this is. Once the Auotomated partition has been installed the the above script works. It seems that the first time you isntall it you have to run it wile the console user is logged in or manually then everything works after that.

All I know is dagentui.exe only runs when you're logged in, and as the current user.