Intelligent Provisioning ProLiant DL360p Gen8

[PHR]

I used Intelligent Provisioning (upgraded to latest version 1.40) to install Windows Server 2008 R2. I checked Customized Configuration to allow System Partition sizing.

The install begins correctly and Windows installation starts I get the following error message :

The following answer file could not be located C:\autounattend.xml

and the installation stops.

Many thanks for some help.

[Lincy_Zachariah]

Hi,

This is generally seen on gen8 server that use custom install method and has special characters, hence p lease check if any special characters are used in Company Name , Organization Name and Owner Name in the OS information section.

Thanks & regards,

Lincy

[Med-H]

Hi,

try to installe the OS "2008 r2" without using the Intelligent Provisioning.

thanks

please let me know if you need any further information

[ivan_D · Accepted solution]

Hello ,

Please try to avoid special charachters (& , _ etc) in your  Company Name , Organization Name and Owner Name in the OS information section. You can add them later if needed at all!

this should help or at least helped by some customers of mine!

i hope it will work also for you!

I am Hp employee

[PHR]

Thank you very much ... There were special characters in the Organization Name .

[securesol]

I had the exact same issue on a DL320e Gen8.

Spent almost 2 days as I ended up deleting array and recreating and trying all different options untill I found this post.

The Organisation name has an '&' in it and I kept the computer name simple - to be changed later.

Glad at least the install is proceeding

thanks

[jps125]

This was the same problem but the characters where placed in the password !

[Jimmy Vance]

I've brought this issue to the attention of the Intelligent Provisioning team.  It will be fixed in a future release.

[RMKAdmin]

Same issue still unresolved in IPP 1.6.  Just saying....

[MBrasser]

It is almost already 2017 ... and still the same error!

[Mario Spänhoff]

Me too... With a DL360 Gen9. Annoying...

[JohnCooper]

I can also confirm that this issue is still present in the current version, Intelligent Provisioning v2.50. 

I attempted a Server 2016 install numerous times and wasted a couple hours troubleshooting iLO Remote Console, and it was all because I put a '&' in the company name... Ugh. 

[Torsten.]

the current version for gen9 is meanwhile version 2.61

[RickACM]

Same here :-(

[Torsten.]

>> Same here :-(

This is not helpful.

What server model and what IP version?

[RobP1]

Installing on a gen9 DL380: Thanks for the help - ive reinstalled the OS because i used an ampersand in the computer name. Please fix.