MSFN Forums > WinPE 1.5 with WMI Support

xcitmntaz

Aug 24 2004, 09:53 PM

Does anyone know if WinPE 1.5 has been released yet(I have the SMS OSD FP beta, which is a customized verion of 1.5, but I was told by MS that if I wanted to enable WMI support, then I would have to get the OPK customizable version)? I know it is suppose to be in the SP2 OPK, and probably eventually in the Select CDs. I am really looking for the WMI support. Did anyone ever get WMI to work in the earlier versions of PE?

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This is the SP2 RC2 version of the OPK and PE dated May 13th.

Been in training so I still haven't gotten any farther than building a hard-drive version of PE, but one of the bit things I was looking for is WMI support. Here's from the MKIMG.CMD file:

/WMI : Include Windows Management Infrastructure (WMI)
support for WinPE.

/NOWF : Disable Windows Firewall (which is usually loaded by
default in WinPE). Use this only if you run server
apps in WinPE, as client networking is unrestricted.
Note that disabling the firewall does not reduce
the WinPE image size.

So WMI support is optional in the base, as opposed to being part of BuildOptionalComponents.vbs as I would have predicted. And I like the Windows Firewall - now I won't get paranoid about my hard-drive-based PE getting infected.

edg21

Sep 15 2004, 02:15 AM

QUOTE (xcitmntaz @ Aug 24 2004, 07:53 PM)

Does anyone know if WinPE 1.5 has been released yet(I have the SMS OSD FP beta, which is a customized verion of 1.5, but I was told by MS that if I wanted to enable WMI support, then I would have to get the OPK customizable version)? I know it is suppose to be in the SP2 OPK, and probably eventually in the Select CDs. I am really looking for the WMI support. Did anyone ever get WMI to work in the earlier versions of PE?

I'm curious about that myself...

MrCobra

Sep 15 2004, 02:26 AM

Curious. Can the OPK build tools of PE SP1 reliably build a SP2 version, or should I wait for the official 1.5 release?

edg21

Sep 15 2004, 03:08 AM

QUOTE (MrCobra @ Sep 15 2004, 12:26 AM)

Curious. Can the OPK build tools of PE SP1 reliably build a SP2 version, or should I wait for the official 1.5 release?

It built w/SP2 for me.... no problems sofar.

MrCobra

Sep 15 2004, 03:52 AM

Thanks for the speedy reply. I will check it out and see how it goes.

EvilNotion

Sep 29 2004, 10:04 AM

I have noticed strange things when I built a v1.2 CD using a slipstreamed SP2 install. (Diskpart wouldn't run for some reason).

Rumor has it, WinPE 2004 (v1.5) is available. I would ask your TAM or TSS (if you're an MS Enterprise customer)

Also, not only is WMI support available, but so is PnP.. It's just slow as molasses with it enabled

MrCobra

Sep 30 2004, 01:34 AM

DiskPart works for me on this end. Got a usable *desktop*. IE works. 64-256 MB ramdisk depending on the actual memory installed.

Since the SMS2003 deployment stuff has PE2004 (without the build tools) and the registry hives, is it possible to reverse a hive back in to an INF file for inclusion during the build process using the 1.2 build tools?

ChrisBaksa

Sep 30 2004, 06:57 AM

1.5 is out. It's been renamed to PE 2004.
It is only buildable with Windows XP SP2 (according to the build chart)

I guess it's been out for about a month now.

Chris

MrCobra

Sep 30 2004, 09:22 PM

It may be out but I have not come across it during any searches. I will find it though.

edg21

Oct 5 2004, 12:38 AM

QUOTE (EvilNotion @ Sep 29 2004, 08:04 AM)

I have noticed strange things when I built a v1.2 CD using a slipstreamed SP2 install. (Diskpart wouldn't run for some reason).

Gotta start a few services before running diskpart

CODE

net start dmserver
net start dmadmin
diskpart /s diskpart.cfg

EvilNotion

Oct 5 2004, 12:10 PM

I have WinPE 2004 now, so it's no longer an issue. Thanks for the heads up tho.

xcitmntaz

Oct 9 2004, 10:53 PM

Where did you end up getting it from? I know it is in the XP SP2 OPK, but has it made its way into the Select CDs yet? I have been hounding my TAM for a month and I haven't been given any useful information.

Metzen

Oct 10 2004, 01:36 AM

QUOTE (MrCobra @ Sep 30 2004, 12:34 AM)

64-256 MB ramdisk depending on the actual memory installed.

What RAM Disk did you use to accomplish this? Christian's?

likuidkewl

Oct 10 2004, 07:17 AM

I believe he is talking about the Qsoft Ramdiskincluded with Bart PE. That is the one that I use.

mbouchard

Oct 11 2004, 06:43 AM

QUOTE (xcitmntaz @ Oct 9 2004, 10:53 PM)

Where did you end up getting it from? I know it is in the XP SP2 OPK, but has it made its way into the Select CDs yet? I have been hounding my TAM for a month and I haven't been given any useful information.

I too have been hounding my tam and she told me last week or was it the week before that it was available via licensing download. It should be coming in the next license shipment or two.

Mike