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Deployment–PDT 2.5 is now available on the TechNet Gallery

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PowerShell Deployment Toolkit version 2.5 has now been posted to the TechNet Gallery here.  Version 2.5 adds a number of enhancements:

  • Deployment of System Center 2012 R2 Preview.
  • Creation of Active Directory during VM creation for end to end isolated environment creation.
  • Static ports for SQL Server named instances to remove requirement for default instances for several components.
  • Validation of components that require full server installations and won’t run on server core.
  • Ability for VMCreator to use either 7-Zip or WinRAR instead of just WinRAR.
  • Ability to specify network adapter identifier during VM creation to allow Windows Server 2008 R2 and non-English OS installation.
  • Ability to specify timezone during VM creation.

Several of the above will the topics of further blog posts in the next few weeks, so stay tuned!

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  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    Regarding the DPM download, the DPM team are aware and are looking into it.  Unfortunately, there's nothing else I can do at this point.

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    I have also an issue for the download: Mount-DiskImage : The system cannot find the path specified. At C:UsersctroessaertDownloadsPDT2.5.2500Downloader.ps1:418 char:41

  •                         $ExtractSize = (Mount-DiskImage -ImagePath "$DownloadDo ...

   + CategoryInfo          : ObjectNotFound: (MSFT_DiskImage:ROOT/Microsoft/.../MSFT_DiskImage) [Mount-DiskImage], Ci   mException    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : HRESULT 0x80070003,Mount-DiskImage Dismount-DiskImage : The system cannot find the path specified. At C:UsersctroessaertDownloadsPDT2.5.2500Downloader.ps1:428 char:25

  •                         Dismount-DiskImage -ImagePath "$DownloadDownload$Downl ...
  •                         ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~    + CategoryInfo          : ObjectNotFound: (MSFT_DiskImage:ROOT/Microsoft/.../MSFT_DiskImage) [Dismount-DiskImage],    CimException    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : HRESULT 0x80070003,Dismount-DiskImage

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    Hi Rob. On trying to install the SPF i think that there is some kind of issue.  I get the following last 3 lines in the log for the install of SPF Loading Managed bootstrapper application 'P@ssw0rd' is a malformed switch shutting down, exit code: 0xffffff Davey

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    nice! thanks! @Christophe Troessaert I got the same errors. These are because the downloader does not downlaod the ISO for Windows Server 2012 any more and because of that the extration of the ISO fails. So you must first downlaod the ISO mannually to the right directory (by default C:InstallaterDownloadWindowsServer2012 I think) See the last point at: blogs.technet.com/.../deployment-pdt-workflow-xml-1004-now-available.aspx

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    that is exacly what i mean

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
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  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    care.dlservice.microsoft.com/.../SC2012_R2_PREVIEW_SCDPM.exe is corrupt

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    petezhang - that validation checks the server exists, the account has access, and WMI is allowed in firewall rules.  RDP doesn't test the same thing at all - can you get remote WMI from your servers?

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
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  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    I am having trouble passing the Validating (Remote)... Validating servers and access. It failed on any account I used even though I can RDP to the servers with those accounts without any issue. Please help.

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    dpm 2012 r2 file is corrupt

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
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  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    Rob how about corrupt distrib of DPM 2012 R2 preview? Is there some workaround?

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    Hi Rob. Last night for some fun i started to play around with VMCreator.ps1 :) now i have it all setup to correctly deploy Generation 2 VM's if you are interested.  At the same time i had to update some of the code that was used to deploy the AD parts so if the VHDX's have more than one partition then it still works. Also i added in the code for adding in VLan's as i have had a number of instances that labs need to be on a selected VLan.  (Keeping two labs on the one switch separate :) ) The speed difference on using Generation 2 machines has reduced the time to deploy out and start the VM's up from about 15 - 30 minutes to about 5 :) So huge difference. Davey

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    nice!

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    Thank you for New Version of PDT, this is great.

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    OK my issue was the firewall. As soon as I made changes to it, the validation works.

  • Anonymous
    August 07, 2013
    Great improvements!

  • Anonymous
    August 07, 2013
    Thank you for R2!

  • Anonymous
    August 08, 2013
    Very nice, thank you for all the effort!

  • Anonymous
    August 08, 2013
    Anyone else having timeout issues? My downloads are stopping at between 5-8 minutes consistently...

  • Anonymous
    August 09, 2013
    The comment has been removed

  • Anonymous
    August 09, 2013
    Nice!!! thanks!

  • Anonymous
    August 17, 2013
    DPM download problem solved!

  • Anonymous
    August 18, 2013
    Thanks for this amazing toolkit. When I tried this new version, I took the time to blog about my experience. Look at my blog here for some tips: http://t.co/CCdQgthlSG PS! The DPM 2012 R2 download seems to be fixed by Microsoft now. Earlier when I tried it, it didn't work, but it does now.

  • Anonymous
    August 25, 2013
    Hi great release for the R2 ! Perfect with the AD integration. Have a Problem with the Azure Pack, in every installtaion I have the VMM marked as "unavailable" and it is not possible to add it again after removal in the Azure Pack Admin Portal. Have you got a hint for me ?

  • Anonymous
    August 26, 2013
    @Rob, the new script looks great, with the new functionality of the AD controller, it is what I was looking for. When the installer.ps1 kicks off from the DC01 server, it is failing to install all instances of SQL Server. When I look at the RD01 server, the SQL Management Tools fail to install with the following error logged: Message: The SQL Server registry keys from a prior installlation cannot be modified. To continue, see SQL Server Setup documentation about how to fix the registry keys. HResult: 0x84be01ff FacilityCode: 1214 (4be) ErrorCode: 511 (01ff) The same errors are logged on the DB02 server. Reviewing the detail log on DB02, I see failures for ProcessorArchitecture cpu while running FixSqlRegistryKey_x64.exe and FixSqlRegistryKey_x86.exe. In each case, the application failed to start because its side-by-side configuration is incorrect. From the host server, ps1 scripts are started from C:Temp folder, and downloaded files are located at C:Installer.