We're running GSS 3.0 on Windows Server 2012, and we use it to image Windows 7 machines. About 40% of the times I start any job, it either sits there and does nothing with a blank status, or a task will say it's being executed but nothing is happening. I've restarted the services and made sure they are all running, but this glitch keeps occuring. Any thoughts?
Hello I’m in the process of evaluating if Ghost Solution Suite 3.0 is the right product for my department to purchase. I have downloaded the 15 day trial and have reached a point where I became stuck. I keep receiving “Error -99 during imaging process” When I’m trying to deploy a image onto a computer. Can you please assist me with error before my trial expires.
Hi All,
I am trying to use GSS 3.0 to do a scripted OS install of "Windows 7 Enterprise N 64 Bit".
In selecting the OS, the closest I can get to is "Windows 7 Enterprise 64 Bit".
If i select this OS, and a relevant unattended.xml, i can not get past the Operating system selection screen.
I have managed to follow one of your "How To" videos to install windows 2012 sucessfully but am unable to get anywhere with the OS install.
Attached are the GSS 3.0 Job Export and my XML File, below is the Imagex info report for my image.
Can you assist???
Regards
Mike
C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\8.1\Assessment and Deployment Kit\Deployment Tools\x86\DISM>imagex.exe /info \\wsbw3
l4s1-2994\eXpress\Deploy\WinOS001\sources\sources\install.wim
ImageX Tool for Windows
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corp. All rights reserved.
Version: 6.3.9600.17029
WIM Information:
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Path: \\mygssserver\eXpress\Deploy\WinOS001\sources\sources\install.wim
GUID: {4bc6c2d6-b0cd-4404-8e12-76348cc1d0ef}
Image Count: 1
Compression: LZX
Compression chunk size: 32768
Part Number: 1/1
Attributes: 0xc
Integrity info
Relative path junction
Available Image Choices:
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<WIM>
<TOTALBYTES>2481417872</TOTALBYTES>
<IMAGE INDEX="1">
<DIRCOUNT>12961</DIRCOUNT>
<FILECOUNT>62755</FILECOUNT>
<TOTALBYTES>11081670029</TOTALBYTES>
<CREATIONTIME>
<HIGHPART>0x01CB8935</HIGHPART>
<LOWPART>0xFF78FEA3</LOWPART>
</CREATIONTIME>
<LASTMODIFICATIONTIME>
<HIGHPART>0x01CBF8E6</HIGHPART>
<LOWPART>0xB38C14CE</LOWPART>
</LASTMODIFICATIONTIME>
<WINDOWS>
<ARCH>9</ARCH>
<PRODUCTNAME>Microsoft® Windows® Operating System</PRODUCTNAME>
<EDITIONID>EnterpriseN</EDITIONID>
<INSTALLATIONTYPE>Client</INSTALLATIONTYPE>
<HAL>acpiapic</HAL>
<PRODUCTTYPE>WinNT</PRODUCTTYPE>
<PRODUCTSUITE>Terminal Server</PRODUCTSUITE>
<LANGUAGES>
<LANGUAGE>en-US</LANGUAGE>
<DEFAULT>en-US</DEFAULT>
</LANGUAGES>
<VERSION>
<MAJOR>6</MAJOR>
<MINOR>1</MINOR>
<BUILD>7601</BUILD>
<SPBUILD>17514</SPBUILD>
<SPLEVEL>1</SPLEVEL>
</VERSION>
<SYSTEMROOT>WINDOWS</SYSTEMROOT>
</WINDOWS>
<NAME>Windows 7 ENTERPRISEN</NAME>
<DESCRIPTION>Windows 7 ENTERPRISEN</DESCRIPTION>
<FLAGS>EnterpriseN</FLAGS>
<HARDLINKBYTES>4371398754</HARDLINKBYTES>
<DISPLAYNAME>Windows 7 Enterprise N</DISPLAYNAME>
<DISPLAYDESCRIPTION>Windows 7 Enterprise N</DISPLAYDESCRIPTION>
</IMAGE>
</WIM>
I'm trying to back up an image using Ghost 11.5 through WinPE. When I back up the image to a local drive (such as an external hard drive), it creates one .GHO file as it should.
However, when I back up to a network share it creates a bunch of .GHS files exactly 2 GB each. I read somewhere that Ghost does this because of a network limitation.
Is there any way around this? I'd really like it to back up one file to my network share. I'm not using a Ghostcast server.
Hi everybody,
Do you know if it's possible to monitor remote computers using a WAN console ?
So far, i installed dagent_x64.msi manually on a remote computer, bound the client to my GSS console routable IP, then i did a simple port forwarding rule on the GSS router to allow inbound traffic on ports 401,402,5001,5002 .
To my great delight the remote computer registered successfully to the console.
I have been able to request an updated inventory twice, but that's about it : any other job fail with the following error message :
"A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed because connected host has failed to respond"
Is this because the console only know the remote client by its non-routable 192.168.x adress, thus making it impossible to connect back ?
Any ideas welcome.
I downloaded the trial version of GSS 3.0 as we have been having a devil of a time with our last full version of GSS 2.5 console having issues building the virtual partition onto Dell 9030 AIO and Dell 9020 mini-form PCs that we got in April.
After researching and modifying our WinPE to 3.0, adding network driver, and HD drivers, we still couldn't get 2.5 to build the virtual partition onto the 9030s after the initial contact with the machine.
So we waited a bit for GSS 3.0 and I downloaded the trial yesterday to see if it would be compatible with Windows 7 drivers.
During the installation of GSS 3.0 I knew off the bat I will need to download and run adksetup as the only options presented for preOS was for Linux. I went ahead with the install then later downloaded adksetup and ran the executable through the PXE Configuration utility.
Once I had Win PE 5.0 as a option for a PreOS and was able to add the 9030 network drivers successfully, I figured I could move on by creating a computer in my group called "Lab" then run the job. I watched both the adding computer and creating a Distribute image job and all that happens is the job just sits there with no error message or warning that it will not run.
I did load the license that was mailed to me during the installation and I also ran remote install to the client I want to image. I am using a legacy image from 2.5 but I didn't think that should matter. Is there anything else I could be missing? Btw, I did look on the client machine and I saw a logfile on the c drive pertaining to the GSS 3.0 client.
Dear All,
I have not seen this question anywhere else in SymWise or Connect, which is weird, as I thought that it would have been asked and answered and/or been in the installation documentation, for GSS 3.0 or DS 6.9, but:
Does anyone know what Antivirus Exclusions should be added for Ghost Solution Suite 3.0 on server and clients?
I am not looking for DS 7 exclusions - those are easy to find. I am wondering what we need for GSS 3.0.
Thanks in advance,
QuietLeni
I know this probably falls under "not supported" but this is something that has works for us for years.
We image our Macs using ghost. It's not that hard, you just use the ghostcast server and the image goes and goes fast! But this year it failed over and over until i tried an image created last year on the old ghost server (2.5) and it worked perfectly. To further the test, i re-captured my image on the old server with the old ghost client and then put the image on a Mac and it worked. i'll try to explain the pass/fails below.
image(X) = image captured on X version of Ghost (2.5/3.0) (version of ghost on bootable USB)
Server(X) = image captured on X server version (2.5/3)
Capture/restore
image3, server3 = fail regardless of restore
image2.5, server3 = fail regardless of restore
image3, server 2.5 = fail regardless of restore
image2.5 server 2.5 = success when restore on old ghost server with old client
When i tried to restore an old image from the new ghostcast server i still got a fail.
SO what this all comes down to is if you're having problems with the new ghost, try the old ghost client with the old ghost server and see how that goes. In full disclosure, i have ZERO problems on Dells, this is just a Mac problem which is why i'm sure people wont care. Let me know if i can expand on this more, i'm just throwing it out here quick when i have some time.
-Steve
I'm trying to back up an image using Ghost 11.5 through WinPE. When I back up the image to a local drive (such as an external hard drive), it creates one .GHO file as it should.
However, when I back up to a network share it creates a bunch of .GHS files exactly 2 GB each. I read somewhere that Ghost does this because of a network limitation.
Is there any way around this? I'd really like it to back up one file to my network share. I'm not using a Ghostcast server.
I cannot complete my installation for Ghost Solution Suite 3.0 on Windows Server 2012. I consistently get the error message "Error creating/updating PreBootOs.ini"
I installed tried both the x64 and x86 versions of SqlExpress2014 (not sure that has anything to do with the problem).
Any ideas?
PS: no Ghost 15 option found to post in, my apologies for "misposting".
I installed W10Pro, after full setup, I made a ghost of the drive, all is good.
Ran into trouble with W10Pro, so backup restore needed.
CD in drive, boot, restore computer, select file, start... death by error.
The error told me it could not restore to the drive, no such drive found.
Manual check: file address tells me C:\, target tells me C:\.
Not a bloody clue why it fails, both are correct in Source/Target address, but another death at start restore, same result.
Clever as I am, I think to myself: why not open the target drive through Ghost options, remove all files manually, and simply copy all from inside the backup file.
Plenty simple, I'd reckon.
But here's the snag: delete went troublesome, often an error "cannot delete file, file not existent".
So??????
What is the problem, it was meant to be deleted anyway.
This error stopped the whole process, no skip file, no resume, it stopped.
Restart C:/ delete, and again, and again, and... you get the point.
Once C:\ was empty, open backup file, copy, back to C;\, paste....
Pop-up tells me: COPYING, perfect, rght?
Well no...
See, for the past 4 hours, Ghost is scanning the source file.
Now, I used ghost quite a few times, a backup never took more than 40 minutes, verify included.
So, copying the file content should not take 40minutes, not to mention 4+bloody hours of just scanning, not even copying.
Is there something wrong?
Workaround this?
ADDENDUM:
Ghost finally figured it's time to copy.
Well not quite: error e7d1000e: file/folder does not exist.
Wait a sec, I SEE the folder and files myself, so what gives? O_O
It's driving me nuts, really.
Thank you aforehand.
Hello,
While using the Ghost Boot Wizard to create a bootable USB device I run into the issue where after the client comes up the ports are all of a sudden deactivated. I was initially under the impression that the USB device used to boot up to the WinPE was just being unmounted but found out later while inserting another usb device and running diskpart that the ports are actually being deactivated. I did search the forum but did not see an incident similar to this one. Below is what I'm using. Thoughts?
Windows Server 2008
GCS ver 11.5.1.2266
Laptop: DELL Latitude E6420
USB Device/s: SanDisk Cruzer Orbit 32GB; Sabrent USB 2.0 Cable to SATA Adpater
We have a very old version of Ghost but we need the more recent version for UEFI support for our Windows 8.1 image. I downloaded the trial to test before we purchase it and trying both the simple and custom install options I get the error message that says "Error authenticating user R037Ghost\ghost 3 on R037Ghost. Please check your user name and password before continuing. You may already be connected to the computer with another user name and password. I have tried it under various user log in accounts with Admin privledges and I cannot get past this error. Does anyone know why?
I was testing out a few of the capabilities and functions of Ghost and I was trying to find a simple way of transferring and executing an .exe to a client PC. I feel like there is a better method of doing what I would lie. If it is possible to do a simple transfer and execute, I would like help trying to find a solution.
Currently I have created a task that does "Copy File to.." with the file to be copied an .exe. Then I have a script that runs after the transfer that should execute the exe silently. Unfortunately the file never transfers and I have all the permissions and rights that would allow for the transfer.
Any suggestions?
We are experiencing a weird situation where whenever we power on our client machines, they first boot into automation (as if they are about to complete an imaging task) then once the DAgent opens within the WinPE automation (after about 30 seconds), it continues on into our production Windows 7 image.
Is there any way to prevent this from happening? Any easy fix that we can deplay out to 100+ machines? We want the machines to boot to Windows right off the bat. We don't have any pending tasks on the console.
Thanks!
Michel
Northampton Public Schools
Hello
I installed new laptops in our organization. The machines use DHCP on their WLAN adapter and static IP addressing on their ethernet adapter. After Ghostcasting both adapters have a static address, with the WLAN adapter having the static address the ethernet adapter should have. If I recall correctly, the ethernet adapter had a wrong static address.
When I look into the client properties > General tab in the GSS console, it shows the MAC address of the ethernet adapter. In the Configuration tab it shows the WLAN adapter using DHCP. There is no mention of the ethernet adapter on the configuration tab.
How can I get the system to apply the previous static ip address onto the ethernet adapter and DHCP configuration onto the wlan adapter? I have not had any problems when dealing with computers that have only one active network adapter.
EDIT: I now noticed that the model computer I used to build the image has the ethernet adapter information, including static ip address, in its client properties configuration tab. I think this is because I installed the GSS client onto the model computer only after it was fully configured. The other computers got the GSS client with the ethernet adapter configured but with no WLAN configuration.
EDIT 2: I deleted and recreated the computer "account" in the GSS console for two computer. Now the configuration tab shows the correct NIC and IP address. However, after a ghostcast session the WLAN-adapter has the static IP address (instead of DHCP address it should have) that belongs to the ethernet adapter. The ethernet adapter has the IP address of the computer that the image is based on.
Thank you for your time!
Hi everyone!!!
hope you all can help me with this...
Running GhostCast Server 11.5.1.2266 and I was wondering if there is a way to set the default partitions size to a set size for one partition and to use the rest of the HDD for the other partition.
Here is what is going on:
- I created my image using VMWare
- sysprep'd all gtg and captured using image x and able to deploy using imagex.
- and using ghostcast server is working fine as well with capture and deployment but i noticed the partition allocations are different than my image that i created. I have no issues modifying the partition allocations manually but the level 2 guys are the ones that dont do that. And by them just taking the defaults they leave about 1-2 GBs of unallocated space on the HDD!! 
The picture with the red box is what I am talking about. is there a way to change the default setting for that? if so , how and where do I go to do that?
Im not that familar with GCS with it enough to find that info ...and well...im the only one that manages this and any and all help is appreciated!!!!
I need some clarification on what exactly the capture task using sysprep and deploy task using sysprep do. If i take GSS out of the picture and im building a machine for imaging, I'll setup a unattend.xml for how i want the machine to be, execute sysprep.exe and point to my unattend.xml, reboot, capture the image. Boom, ready to deploy the image. when i deploy that image sysprep runs and i'm good to go.
I cant find info on what each GSS capture/deploy sysprep does? Any info would be appreciated.
Our base images are too convoluted to automate, so i need to build my base image and use a custom unattend.xml, but i'm not sure if i need to capture the image and check the capture with sysprep (what does that do?), then when i lay down do i say deploy with sysprep and point to my custom unattend? if so what did the capture sysprep do? Or do i bypass all of this and just sysprep the machine myself before capturing? So many questions, so little info that i can find in the user guide....
We've purchased licenses for Ghost in the past, and we've just recently run out of licenses. After purchasing more licenses this error is displayed when trying to add the license file to the console. We're running Ghost 2.5 on Windows Server 2008 R2. I've seen an article for this error that says to reinstall Ghost, but I'd like to reserve that as a last resort.
I have tried:
Any suggestions are appreciated.
Thanks,
Adam
I can create a boot disc by Ghost Solution Suite 3.0. However, there is no ghost walker.
How to create a boot disc with ghost walker by Ghost Solution Suite 3.0??