SmartStart version for SBS 2011?

[Bruce P A Dienes]

Is there a version of SmartStart software that will install Microsoft SBS 2011?

[Ben Wilcox]

I just spoke with Support, there is not. They told me that there is no way to do it as it isnt supported yet, but I did find an article from September on it.

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c02616751/c02616751.pdf

You will have to download the R2 drivers such as the NIC from HP's site, extract to a USB drive, Boot and do a custom install from the DVD. I only needed the NIC as the setup recognized the controller. After it reboots and you get to the configuration screen where you see the check time window, hit Shift+F10. This will bring up the Cmd Prompt. Navigate to the driver path of the thumb drive, run the setup executable. You should now be able to complete the new install or migration without the SmartStart DVD. After the server is installed, you can install the rest of the components and drivers from the SmartStart DVD.

[Bruce P A Dienes]

The driver page has many driver downloads for the ML350 G6 NIC. I could not find anything in the manual that gave the exact NIC hardware that was built in. Do you know which driver I should download to install SBS 2011 Standard?
(I assume it is same as for 2008R, but which one??)

[Mauricio Salas · Accepted solution]

The Driver depends from the Model of the NIC, now, this server use NC326i so the Driver for should be this one:
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/SoftwareDescription.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&prodTypeId=329290&prodSeriesId=3660106&prodNameId=3660117&swEnvOID=4064&swLang=8&mode=2&taskId=135&swItem=MTX-f0a6ea2b285849fd8037eace9a

And the SmartStart 8.7 who support SBS 2011 will be released on Feb 26