Hey,

Encountered a new problem. To fix the BDD login page where you are prompted for credentials to the share, I added the pingback solution to give it a little more time to connect to the share. That part works great btw.
In an attempt to also streamline the deployment more, I unchecked a bunch of TS from the "deployment" deployment point so that only a few would populate the list.

Problem: I updated both deployment points and rebuilt the PE images and now when I boot to a deployment no task sequences appear and it gives me the error that none are present, or that the Tasksequences.xml is empty/unvailable. Even though I only edited one of the bootPE's no task sequences appear when I boot to _either_ deployment point! PANIC

Troubleshooting:
- The file (tasksequences.xml) is present and it does reflect the changes I made in selecting which TS's to appear.
- File permissions are normal, and those have not been changed.
- In the deployment point, all the TS's are present with a few of them checked off to be visible.
- updated all deployment points (full update)
- rebooted the server (desparation)

any ideas?

Morning,

Update: After much hair loss, a couple bottles of booze and some tears I have fixed the issue -- sorta.

Based on my understanding, there was/is a time lag between Workbench updating the changes I had made -- even though I had updated both deployment points (full). This morning I created a test TS under my "build" DP just to see if it updated TaskSeqeunces.xml for that DP. I updated that DP (files only) and updated my second "Deployment" DP (files only).

I loaded up a machine, PXE boot, and chose the "Deployment" DP and the list was still empty with the same error.
I went back to the workbench and opened up the deployment DP, and all of the TS's were _unchecked_ even though last night I had about 3 of them checked off.
I updated Files only again on both DP (probably just needed to do one of them) and re-ran wpeinit.exe and shazam! The TS's I checked off appeared in the list. Success!

Summary: I apologize for the convoluted response here but I am still not entirely sure what went wrong or how it was fixed. Needless to say it was either
1) a time lag for workbench to sift through the updated TaskSequences.xml
2) the creation of a new TS to toggle the update of the TaskSequences.xml
3) a combination of both.

If anyone else encounters a similar problem let me know as I did a lot of digging last night between my glasses of whiskey.

Joel

Update: Fixed it.
After all the testing and retrying, I found out that one of my TS was the problem, so anytime it was added to a DP it would cause the listing to fail completely.
The TS which was a custom XP image I had made was using was using a Vista Install as it's OS. Not sure how that got in there, but once I changed that out and updated the DP's it worked.

moral of the story, make sure your TS's are good, and add the TS's to your DP one at a time until you find one that's the problem.

Joel

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