Upgrade notes

Here's what you need when upgrading to Lab Management 2.4.2

When upgrading to Lab Management 2.4.2 from Lab Management 2.3 or earlier, see the upgrade notes for version 2.4.

Note: To point the help links to the most recent content on help.collab.net, modify the help_url_pattern token in the site.conf file:

help_url_pattern = http://help.collab.net/topic/cubit/action/%s.html

With Lab Management 2.4.2, you can build hosts from a Windows 7 Enterprise 64-bit profile.

Configure the WDS server to support more images:

Save these commands as a DOS batch file and run it.

Note: Be careful that the DOS batch file is in ASCII format, and contains no special control characters. You may need to type the commands manually.

Alternatively, you can run the individual commands in the order shown.

wdsutil /Stop-Server
wdsutil /Uninitialize-Server
wdsutil /Initialize-Server /RemInst:"C:\RemoteInstall"
wdsutil /Set-Server /Authorize:No
wdsutil /Set-Server /AnswerClients:All
wdsutil /Set-Server /ArchitectureDiscovery:Yes
wdsutil /Set-Server /BootImage:"Boot\x86\Images\Boot.wim" /Architecture:x86
wdsutil /Set-Server /BootImage:"Boot\x64\Images\Boot.wim" /Architecture:x64
wdsutil /Set-Server /BootProgram:"Boot\x86\pxeboot.n12" /Architecture:x86
wdsutil /Set-Server /BootProgram:"Boot\x64\pxeboot.n12" /Architecture:x64
wdsutil /set-server /DefaultX86X64ImageType:Both
wdsutil /Set-Server /NewMachineDomainJoin:Yes
wdsutil /Set-Server /PrestageUsingMAC:Yes
wdsutil /Set-Server /ResetBootProgram:No
wdsutil /Set-Server /ResponseDelay:3
wdsutil /Set-Server /Wdsunattend /policy:Enabled /CommandlinePrecedence:Yes
wdsutil /Set-Server /WdsClientLogging /Enabled:Yes /LoggingLevel:Info
wdsutil /Set-Server /UseDhcpPorts:No
wdsutil /Start-Server

Add Windows images to the WDS server:

See these instructions to add Windows images using the GUI or by running WDSUTIL commands.