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March 18th, 2014 08:00
E7440 & E7240 - Issues with connecting to MDT 2012 deployment share
Hi, Good afternoon.
Need help on the below issue please.
-Test laptops Iam using are 2 * E7440 and 1*E7240. One laptop of model E7440 has our image installed and other two (1*E7440 & 1*E7240) are shipped from Dell with default Win 7 64 bit OS.
-Test desktops Iam using are Dell Optiplex 3020 & Dell 3010 . Both models have our own images of Win 7 64 Bit.
-Laptops and desktops are on same network .
-For OS deployments we have MDT 2012. -While there are no issues with desktops, all the laptops mentioned above don’t connect to MDT deployments share . The detailed error message I get when I run a litetouch ISO is ‘A connection to the deployment share could not be made. Connection OK.Possible cause:invalid credentials. Retry : Try again to connect to the deployment share.’
-Have injected all possible network & storage drivers mentioned by Dell & Intel into MDT boot image but the problem still persists. Still WinPE doesn’t detect network adapter wherein IPaddresses are not picked in WinPE mode.
-Have been testing each and every driver by manually loading them into Winpe mode to see if they pick up the IP addresses and I finally found one driver by name ‘e1d63x64.inf ‘ which I downloaded directly from Intel website. This one is picking IP Address in WinPE mode when loaded manually. Also have tested the connectivity to MDT server in WinPE mode with net use command and it was successful.
Have injected this driver into MDT Laptop deployment share, regenerated the ISO and tried again however Iam still unable to connect to the deployment share with litetouch ISO.
The above driver is very much part of set of network drivers on Dell website too.But it doesn’t work.
-Have also tried combination of network & storage drivers from Dell website (along with the above one mentioned ) injecting them into the MDT laptop boot image but no luck. -Every time I make changes to drivers in boot image,I update deployment share & recreate boot image .
-This very litetouch iso connects to MDT deployments share for Dell desktop models 3010 & 3020 but have issues with laptop models E7440 & E7240. This means any connectivity or access issues can be ruled out. Also no problem with our image cause this happens even with brand new shipped laptops with your inbuild win 7 OS.
-Have tried all options suggested on internet,tested all the drivers suggested but no luck. -For example I tried latest E7440 netwrok & storage drivers ,Dell Win PE drivers,drivers from Intel website,etc individually as well as in combinations but the issue persists.
-Tried even with the drivers suggested by you but no luck,
Any help on this is appreciated. Thanks in advance.
MadhaviNB
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March 19th, 2014 05:00
Hi ,Further this morning have tested the MDT litetouch ISO / WIM file that I created earlier on a different laptop model E5430 which is directly shipped from Dell with Win 7 professional. WinPE works fine and Iam able to connect to MDT deployment share straight away with no issues.
So from over all testing from my end can confirm that there are no issues with our Win 7 image or MDT 2012. The very same litetouch ISO works fine on models Dell Optiplex 3010, 3020, Latitude E5430 but does not work on laptop models E7440 & E7240.
Not sure what else to do.
DELL-Warren B
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March 25th, 2014 12:00
Remove all of your WinPE drivers from your boot package and add them back one at a time (testing and removing before proceeding). WinPE doesn't handle drivers in exactly the same way that Windows does, so if you have multiple versions of drivers for a given component, WinPE may not use the latest driver like Windows would.
If you don't want to clean out your WinPE, you would need to verify which driver is actually being installed while WinPE is loaded, so that you know what driver may be the problem and which aren't.
MadhaviNB
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March 26th, 2014 10:00
Hi Warren,
Good evening. Thank you so much for the response. Have resolved this issue last Friday and Iam sorry for not updating the blog.
Went to command prompt in WinPE,was testing driver by driver by manually loading them using drvload.I finally found one driver by name ‘e1d63x64.inf ‘ which I downloaded directly from Intel website. This one is picking IP Address in WinPE mode when loaded manually. Also have tested the connectivity to MDT server in WinPE mode with net use command and it was successful.
My observations in fixing this issue is as below:-
-Error I was getting when I ran litetouch ISO on these laptops (E7440 & E7240) was "‘A connection to the deployment share could not be made. Connection OK.Possible cause:invalid credentials. Retry : Try again to connect to the deployment share.’
-This very litetouch ISO for Win 7(x64) works fine on desktop models 3020,3010 & a laptop model E5430.
-Both E7440 & E720 has same network & WinPE drivers as per Dell website . www.dell.com
-These drivers won’t pick IP Addresses in WinPE mode even on new laptops with standard Win 7 Image that is shipped by Dell.Hence when they are injected into Boot image they don’t work either .
-Only the drivers downloaded from intel website worked which should not have been the case.
Working drivers are in the link https://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?agr=Y&ProdId=3299&DwnldID=18713&ProductFamily=Ethernet+Components&ProductLine=Ethernet+Controllers&ProductProduct=Intel%C2%AE+82579+Gigabit+Ethernet+Controller&lang=eng
-Deleted all the drivers from WinPE boot image ,loaded only Win7 64 bit one's from Intel website,changed the option in MDT
to include 'everything' in the selection profile for the boot image ,recreated iso and the issue was resolved.
I now have single litetouch iso with which I can connect to deployment share from all the desktop & laptop models in the business.
Have send all the test results to Dell Support/ Technical team and adviced them to do something about this while more people waste time on this WinPE stuff for some of these model laptops.
Thanks & Regards,
Madhavi NB
aravindanche
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November 10th, 2016 13:00
Hi Madhavi,
I am facing the same issue, Could you please elaborate.
Thanks
Mralaskaone
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February 6th, 2017 17:00
This is DELLS Fault not Microsoft or your Deployment Server. I've been working on this bloody issue for over 2 freakin weeks and dell keeps telling me to add this driver and that driver. Microsoft told me to start all over from scratch. Create a new deployment share, add in one driver package, see if it works, if not remove and add next. I'm in the process of doing this now but this is just ***. Dell you really screwed this one up. WHY IN THE HECK SHOULD I HAVE TO FIX YOUR PROBLEMS!!!!!!!!!!!!