No IP-address set during MDT Sysprep and Capture

Last week I created a Windows 7 SP1 image manually, installed almost 200 updates in it (!) and started the MDT 2013 default task sequence "Sysprep and Capture". The first part went fine (Sysprep), but when in Windows PE there was no IP-address set. Oops! Lucky me you can start a command prompt and start "Retry" later. Let's have a look how to enter a static IP-address within Windows PE.

 
Just start Command Prompt with F8 and type in the following command: "Netsh interface ip show config" > which is showing that my interface is called "Ethernet0"

After that type in the command: "Netsh interface ipv4 set address “Ethernet0” static <IP address> <Subnet mask <Gateway>" 

After that it was possible to capture Windows 7 SP1 successfully!

This simply made my day! ;)

How to force an IP-HTTPS connection on a DirectAccess client

Today Direct Access wasn't working because of IP-HTTPS malfunction. Normally I'm using the following commands when Direct Access isn't working, this because off multiple Proxy changes a week.

• Restart "Network Location Awareness" service
• Restart "IP Helper" service
• "netsh dnsclient show state" (inside/outside office)
• "netsh interface httpstunnel show interfaces" (connected/not connected)

But this time nothing seems to help. The error message (this time) were: Interface Status: IPHTTPS interface deactivated.

 

Lucky me I found the following blogpost: Hidden Microsoft
It mentions:  You should try using netsh to disable Teredo.

For example, if you execute the following command: "netsh interface teredo set state disable". You will in fact disable Teredo. Provided that your IP-HTTPS solution is working, the Direct Access client will then switch over to IP-HTTPS. You can verify this using the following command: "netsh interface httpstunnel show interfaces". Now, to re-enable Teredo you would use the following command: "netsh interface teredo set state default".

After that everything went fine again. Strange thing however we don't use Teredo at all, but still this can be the solution! ;)