Archive for April, 2010

How to: MDT 2010 change the “Running: Lite Touch Installation” message

If you want to change the message “Running: Lite Touch Installation” in the progress display when deploying a computer, you’ve to change the file LiteTouch.wsf in the folder E:\DeploymentShare\Scripts (in my environment!)

Search for the text “Lite Touche Installation” and replace this with your own text. For example: “Running: Deploy Microsoft Windows 7″. Save the file and update your deploymentshare. Import the new WIM file into Windows Deployment Services (WDS).

       

   

Exchange 2010, An IIS directory entry couldn’t be created. The error message is Access is denied.

When you receive the following error in Exchange 2010 when opening the Outlook Web App properties in the Exchange Management Console:

An IIS directory entry couldn’t be created. The error message is Access is denied.

Solution: Make sure that the group Exchange Trusted subsystem is member of local administrator group on all the Exchange 2007 servers.

Exchange 2010, cannot remove mailboxdatabase…!?!

Today I’ve migrated my Exchange 2007 environment to Exchange 2010. After installing Exchange 2010, creating some mailboxdatabases, moving the arbitration mailboxes, I wasn’t able to delete the default created mailboxdatabase from the Exchange 2010 environment. The command failed with the following error:

Remove-MailboxDatabase -Identity “Mailbox Database 0075281871″
This mailbox database contains one or more mailboxes or arbitration mailboxes. To get a list of all mailboxes in this databa
se, run the command Get-Mailbox -Database <Database ID>. To get a list of all arbitration mailboxes in this database, run th
e command Get-Mailbox -Database <Database ID> -Arbitration. Before you can remove this mailbox database, you must disable, m
ove, or remove user mailboxes and move arbitration mailboxes.
    + CategoryInfo          : InvalidOperation: (Mailbox Database 0075281871:DatabaseIdParameter) [Remove-MailboxDatabase],
    AssociatedUserMailboxExistException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : 68BDB73C,Microsoft.Exchange.Management.SystemConfigurationTasks.RemoveMailboxDatabase

When I create an overview of all the arbitration mailboxes, they are already succesfully moved to a new created mailboxdatabase. Why I’m getting this error…?? There’s another default created mailbox, called: Discovery Search Mailbox. After moving this mailbox to another mailboxdatabase, I wass able to delete succesfully the default created mailboxdata from my Exchange 2010 environment.

         

         

   

MDT 2010 and user credentials??

When you’re deploying a machine using MDT, every time you run the deployment wizard, you’ve to fill in user credentials fore authentication with the deployment share. You can change this by editing the file bootstrap.ini.

1.) Open the DeploymentWorkbench
2.) Right click the MDT Deployment Share (E:\DeploymentShare in my environment)
3.) Open the second tab Rules
4.) Click Edit Bootstrap.ini
5.) Default the file looks like picture 6
6.) Add the following rules to the textfile:
UserID=Administrator
UserDomain=WIN7.LOCAL (your domain)
UserPassword=Pa$$w0rd (your administrator password)
KeyboardLocale=en-US
SkipBDDWelcome=YES

7.) Don’t forget to update the deployment share
8.) Right click the MDT Deployment Share (E:\DeploymentShare in my environment), and select Update Deployment Share
9.) Assign the boot image (E:\DeploymentShare\Boot\LiteTouchPE_x86.wim) to Windows Deployment Services WDS.