WdsClient: An error occurred while obtaining an IP address from the DHCP server. Please check to ensure that there is an operationgal DHCP Server on this network segment.

To resolve this issue you will need to enable spanning-tree portfast on your switch. To do so you can run the following commands on your cisco switch.

Switch1(config)#interface “interface name”
Switch1(config)#spanning-tree portfast

To enable spanning-tree portfast on all interface use the following command

Switch1(config)#spanning-tree portfast default

Note: This will enable portfast by default on all interfaces. You will have to disable portfast explicitly on switched ports eading to hubs, switches and bridges as they may create temporary bridging loops.

Here are some steps that you can follow if you need to inject drivers to your wim file

1.  Install Microsoft Core XML Services (MSXML) 6.0, download link
2. Install Windows Automated Installation Kit (WAIK), download link
3. Once you have installed Windows Automated Installation Kit, navigate to the C:\Program Files\Windows AIK\Tools\x86 folder, right-click wimfltr.inf and Select Install.
4. Create a folder D:\VistaMount
5. Run cmd – command line
6. cd C:\Program Files\Windows AIK\Tools\x86
7. Mount wim file with the following command, imagex /mountrw “source location\wim file” 2 d:\vistamount

Note:  Make sure that you use the 2 in the command to specify the second image of the boot.wim file.  If you don’t, you may recieve problems with detecting the network drivers when booting into WinPE.  This is a known problem with the new HP DC7900 Desktops.

8. Download the drivers from the manufacturer and extract them to D:\drivers
9. Run cmd – command line
10. cd C:\Program Files\Windows AIK\Tools\PETools
11. peimg /inf=”driver source location\inf file” d:\vistamount
12. unmount and save changes to wim file with following command, imagex /unmount /commit d:\vistamount

Note: Make sure you use the /commit parameter to ensure that changes are saved to the wim file.

Launch regedit

Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Desktop\SafeMode\Components

Change value of DeskHtmlVersion REG_DWORD 0×00000110(272) to decimal 0

Close regedit and log off

When you log back in the problem should be fixed

So it should look like this under # Generic IE Settings,

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Desktop\Components
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\IntelliForms
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\TypedURLs
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\New Windows
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\Zones
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings

HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Policies \ Explorer

In the right-pane, delete the DisablePersonalDirChange value.

“The Active Directory Installation Wizard cannot continue because the forest is not prepared for installing Windows Server 2003. Use the Adprep command-line tool to prepare both the forest and the domain. For more information about using the Adprep, see Active Directory Help.

The version of the Active Directory schema of the source forest is not compatible with the version of Active Directory on this computer.”

This issue may occur when Active Directory has not been updated with the Windows Server 2003 R2 schema extensions.

To resolve this issue, run the adprep.exe /forestprep command from the Windows Server 2003 R2 installation disk 2 on the schema master.  To do this insert the Windows Server 2003 R2 Disk 2 and copy the ADPREP directory to the C:\ of your server.  Then run C:\ADPREP\adprep /forestprep.

Follow the instructions to complete the upgarde

For more read http://support.microsoft.com/kb/917385

The problem is that Windows XP has fast logon.  This feature will not wait for network connectivity and will just use cached credentials to logon to the computer.  Therefore, the logon script is ignored, hence the user will not get their network drives.

To fix this problem enable Computer the Always wait for the network at computer startup and logon feature in group policy

Full path is Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > System > Logon: Always wait for the network at computer startup and logon.

If this doesn’t fix the problem then you may need to enable scripting across a slow network connection in the group policy that contains the logon script.

To do this go to Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > System > Group Policy

Look for Scripts policy processing. Double click on Scipts policy processing and select (check) Enabled. Then, also select (check) Allow processing across a slow network connection in the box and press OK.

Note: Other default behaviours that is not executing when slow link detected can also be changed:

Folder redirection policy processing
Disk quota policy processing
Scripts policy processing
EFS recovery policy processing
Software installation policy processing
IP security policy processing
Internet Explorer Maintenance policy processing
Wireless policy processing

To resolve this issue delete the offline printer or make sure the print server is online.