Landesk 9.5 sp1 Hii Best Practices

I have been struggling with similar issues. It appears HII is not injecting the drivers even though it completes with success. I have attempted to assign drivers to certain models with no luck and have tried different drivers and versions. The end result is a blue screen with error code 0X0000007b because it is not loading the hard drive controller driver.

Update:  Finally figured out that the new version of HII can't deal with old HII material left over from image creation or reimaging. Ended up adding a provisioning task that deletes the \Windows\LDDRIVERSTORE file on the hard drive before the HII task. HII loads the proper drivers and all is well again.

dstark93, are you sure it's not loading the driver? That error could also mean that the image was captured on a computer set to use AHCI and is being deployed to a computer set to use IDE in the BIOS or vice versa.

Hi Chad, did you ever figure out what the problem was? I am with Jaren, you might to create the image in Vmware, sysprep and then try aain.

I have noticed with 9.5 you have to create a task to specifically mount the partition which was not required in 9. I usually mount the drive as J. The reason I chose a letter farther in the alphabet is I have noticed that computers from the the manufacturers often have strange partitions that will take up the early drive letters and the mount will not take place at the letter you think it did and then any task that calls a specifc drive letter will fail.

Chad.White

Here is my configuration to the partition for Windows8. this section is for the "Pre-Os Installation" in my provisioning template (I am attaching the picture)

<section id="PreOsInstall" name="Pre-OS installation">

                    <description>Configure the hardware and get the system ready for installing the target OS.</description>

                                <action name="Wipe Disk" version="4">

                                                <description>Remove All Partitions from Disk 0</description>

                                                <action-type>Partition</action-type>

                                                <variables />

                                                <options>

                                                                <option name="StopProcessingTemplateIfActionFails">true</option>

                                                </options>

                                                <parameters>

                                                                <action>removeall</action>

                                                                <diskID>0</diskID>

                                                </parameters>

                                </action>

                                <action name="Create System Reserved Partition" version="4">

                                                <description>Create System Reserved Partition</description>

                                                <action-type>Partition</action-type>

                                                <variables />

                                                <options>

                                                                <option name="StopProcessingTemplateIfActionFails">true</option>

                                                </options>

                                                <parameters>

                                                                <action>create</action>

                                                                <diskID>0</diskID>

                                                                <partitionType>primary</partitionType>

                                                                <offset>0</offset>

                                                                <size>350</size>

                                                </parameters>

                                </action>

                                <action name="Mount System Reserved Partition" version="4">

                                                <description>Mount System Reserved Partition</description>

                                                <action-type>Partition</action-type>

                                                <variables />

                                                <options>

                                                                <option name="StopProcessingTemplateIfActionFails">true</option>

                                                </options>

                                                <parameters>

                                                                <action>mount</action>

                                                                <diskID>0</diskID>

                                                                <partitionID>1</partitionID>

                                                                <mountPoint>Z:</mountPoint>

                                                </parameters>

                                </action>

                                <action name="Format System Reserved Partition" version="4">

                                                <description>Format System Reserved Partition</description>

                                                <action-type>Partition</action-type>

                                                <variables />

                                                <options>

                                                                <option name="StopProcessingTemplateIfActionFails">true</option>

                                                </options>

                                                <parameters>

                                                                <action>makefs</action>

                                                                <mountPoint>Z:</mountPoint>

                                                                <fsType>NTFS</fsType>

                                                                <quickFormat>True</quickFormat>

                                                </parameters>

                                </action>

                                <action name="Create OS Partition" version="4">

                                                <description>Create OS Partition</description>

                                                <action-type>Partition</action-type>

                                                <variables />

                                                <options>

                                                                <option name="StopProcessingTemplateIfActionFails">true</option>

                                                </options>

                                                <parameters>

                                                                <action>create</action>

                                                                <diskID>0</diskID>

                                                                <partitionType>primary</partitionType>

                                                                <offset>0</offset>

                                                                <size>0</size>

                                                </parameters>

                                </action>

                                <action name="Mount OS Partition" version="4">

                                                <description>Mount OS Partition</description>

                                                <action-type>Partition</action-type>

                                                <variables />

                                                <options>

                                                                <option name="StopProcessingTemplateIfActionFails">true</option>

                                                </options>

                                                <parameters>

                                                                <action>mount</action>

                                                                <diskID>0</diskID>

                                                                <partitionID>2</partitionID>

                                                                <mountPoint>C:</mountPoint>

                                                </parameters>

                                </action>

                                <action name="Format OS Partition" version="4">

                                                <description>Format OS Partition</description>

                                                <action-type>Partition</action-type>

                                                <variables />

                                                <options>

                                                                <option name="StopProcessingTemplateIfActionFails">true</option>

                                                </options>

                                                <parameters>

                                                                <action>makefs</action>

                                                                <mountPoint>C:</mountPoint>

                                                                <fsType>NTFS</fsType>

                                                                <quickFormat>True</quickFormat>

                                                </parameters>

                                </action>

                                <action name="Active System Reserved Partition" version="4">

                                                <description>Active System Reserved Partition</description>

                                                <action-type>Partition</action-type>

                                                <variables />

                                                <options>

                                                                <option name="StopProcessingTemplateIfActionFails">true</option>

                                                </options>

                                                <parameters>

                                                                <action>set</action>

                                                                <diskID>0</diskID>

                                                                <partitionID>1</partitionID>

                                                                <boot>True</boot>

                                                                <OSpartitionID />

                                                                <Windows7>False</Windows7>

                                                </parameters>

                                </action>

                </section>

I hope it helps,

Denyl

I'am working with that simple approach.

LANDesk Management Suite 9.5 SP1 - Best Practice HII 9.5SP1 for DELL Computers

Could be a workaround for other Vendors too.