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scaniafreak User is Offline

Posts:35

12/05/2007 7:31 AM
hi everyone, i have a kind of special request in wich i use BDD2007: i use BDD to install/reinstall computers of customers. my primairy BDD server is located in a virtual machine on my desktop. a second BDD server is located in a virtual machine on my laptop. i want to use the second BDD server as "mobïle" BDD server, as i have to go to the customers place. i have setup my lab as follows: one domain (forest root) 2 computers in the domain which function as: DC, WDS, DFS, DNS, DHCP, BDD, Global Catalog, etc. the OS is w2k3 R2 enterprise i use DFS to replicate between the 2 servers. the primairy server (VM on desktop) is also the replication master. the replication works as it should. But when i shutdown the primairy bdd server, and try to deploy pc's with the mobile bdd server, i get serveral errors: when booting w2k3 R2 i get an error: one or more services failed to start, or something like that. most of the time it refers to WDS. when i load the BDD wizard on a client, i get the error, build.xml is empy, not accessible, or damaged. when i load the WDS MMC, the WDS server couldn't be contacted, which is on the same server. but when i bring the primairy server up, everything works fine. one of the causes of the errors i think belongs to the FSMO roles. Because on one of the servers the GC and the infrastructure master resides on the same server. and that is not recommended MS said. second i think that if i bring the primairy server down, not all FSMO roles are availeble. My solution of this is the following: make two completely serperate BDD servers, in two seperate forests. (BTW, each BDD server is also DC, WDS, DNS, and so on. a BDD server completely on its own) use DFS to replicate between the forest by way of a trust. my question is: is it possible with DFS to replicate cross forest? (i only replicate the distribution-share folder) contains BDD forest/domain specific information which shouldn't be overwrited? i plan to upgrade to MS Deployment. should it also work with MS Deployment, or is it BDD version specific? i know it's maybe an unusual lab enviroment, but i also see it as a challenge for my own. I hope that there is a solution for this situation. Thanks in advance, Scaniafreak

Simon Hardy User is Offline

Posts:20

12/05/2007 2:17 PM
I can't comment on your plans, but both servers will neen to be global catalogue servers. If WDS cannot locate a GC then the service fails to start and you will be unable to manage WDS.... Not sure about your Build.xml issue..

FarmerPete User is Offline

Posts:168

01/02/2008 4:39 PM
Do you really NEED to use WDS? You could have gotten this done in about 3 minutes with out using Windows 2003 server. Just create a 2nd deployment point in BDD and then create a CD or two fromt he ISO file and you're off and going. Then you can use WDS when you are at your home location and boot CDs to connect to the secondary share while at remote locations.

scaniafreak User is Offline

Posts:35

01/03/2008 2:24 PM
Posted By FarmerPete on 01/02/2008 4:39 PM Do you really NEED to use WDS? You could have gotten this done in about 3 minutes with out using Windows 2003 server. Just create a 2nd deployment point in BDD and then create a CD or two fromt he ISO file and you're off and going. Then you can use WDS when you are at your home location and boot CDs to connect to the secondary share while at remote locations. but if i'm @ a remote location and i use the cd, the cd points then to the second deployment point wich is also @ the server @ home. So i have to cross the internet. ands thats something i really don't want. But i have found a solution which works great. 2 completely standalone BDD servers with all required network services (AD, DNS, DHCP, WDS). and with robocopy (a great copy tool from Microsoft) i synchronise the mobile distirubtion point with the main distribution point. and that works perfect

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