Unexpected reboot during Vista LTI deployment

[J. Greg Mackinnon]

We are seeing some strange behavior with Vista Enterprise clients during
LiteTouch deployments. If left unattended, the system reboots after
Windows Updates are downloaded. Typically this creates problems with
the LTI task sequence (most commonly the reboot takes place during MS
Office 2007 deployment, resulting in an "/adminfile switch is only
supported during initial setup" error from the Office setup.exe).

Is anyone else seeing this behavior? Is there some way that I can
suppress Windows update activity until after the Application deployment
phase of LTI? (I cannot find any settings to control Windows Update in
the unattended.xml reference!)

-Greg Mackinnon
University of Vermont

 

[Guest]

Hi Greg
I am also new to the whole BDD thing and LTI setup of Viste and XP. What I
have learned though is that you must make sure that none of your Updates or
Applications, do a Reboot of the System, the Rebbot must be issued by the
Task Sequenser.
You can use this in a commandline or a Custome.ini file
Command Line: msiexec /qn /i "X:\app.msi" REBOOT=ReallySuppress
ini file REBOOT=ReallySuppress

Hope this helps you.
Ta

 

[J. Greg Mackinnon]

That is goood advice, Johan. Unfortunately, the reboot is not being
triggered by an application as far as I can tell. We are installing the
same apps on XP and Vista, and only Vista reboots.

I will take it from the silence of the rest of the community that this
problem is unique to us (which is reassuring, in a strange way.)

-Greg Mackinnon

 

[Simon Palmer]

Hi Greg,

I have the same problem with our LTI Vista installation, the reboot occurs during the middle of the Office 2007 installation. Did the other suggestions posted here work or did you find another solution? Please contact me to discuss further as two heads are better than one in resolving the problem.

Simon


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[Simon Palmer]

Found a solution that works - try adding net stop wuauserv to BDD 2007 task sequence screen, anywhere before install Applications task under State Restore Group.

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