Skype Room Systems v2 3.1.98.0 Deployment Kit

Hello David, 

We are running more and more into challenges with the SRS system.

We are still in semi test / semi productive environment as we cant get SRS to a reliable state.

As of now we have 3 Installations with SRS in combination of the Logitech SmartDock and Logitech Group evaluating for about 5 month now, opened several Tickets with Microsoft Premium support, Logitech and our SFB consultant company, have hardware running through RMA etc.

However there was not a single week where the devices were stable and we had to reimage all the surface over and over again.

This is extremely disappointing and frustrating and is now affecting our Business as meetings have to be canceled or rescheduled due to not working SRS. We already lost face to our inhouse customers as well as our management board!

That are my two cents to the experience we made so far, now to my question.

Im doing a reimage of the Surface right now and facing a challenge with the required versions.

As of the Blog entry above I can see that Windows 1709 is now "supported" but not required:

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David Groom wrote:

Skype Room Systems v2 version 3.1.98.0 deployment kit is available for download from TechNet as of March 20th.

 

NOTE: Building an image with 3.1.98.0 and Windows 10 Version 1709 requires the addition of Win10 January Update KB4056892.  Also, a PS1 script is available on the TechNet site to more quickly build images.

 

See TechNet link https://technet.microsoft.com/EN-US/library/mt790558.aspx "Prepare the installation image".

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The Technet article you linked also only states Version 1607 has run out of support:

However when I try to create an image with SRS 3.1.100.0 and Win10 v1703 I get told that its not supported either and only 1709 will work.

We are not yet allowed to use 1709 as of company policies - how do I get around that as I have a feeling its not intended or not communicated properly?

The second question would be where do we get language packs from? We are Volume Licensing customers and retrieved single language pack for German as well as the MultiLanguage pack including german from licensing.microsoft.com. Those files came as cab files wrapped in an ISO but not as LP or LIP file and the script tells us its not a supported language file.

Last but not least is there a way to open a support ticket with a specialised Technician how knows about SRS without asking us to reimage or get Fiddler logs?

Hope you can help us on that!

Cheers

Jörg

I have an error when i ran the createsrsmedia. The error is the folowing:

Get-WindowsImage : No hay ninguna imagen coincidente.
En C:\srsv2\CreateSrsMedia.ps1: 177 Carácter: 12
+ $img = Get-WindowsImage -ImagePath $InstallWim -Name "Windows 10 ...
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (Microsoft.Dism.Commands.BaseDismObject:BaseDismObject) [Get-WindowsImage]
, PSArgumentException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : Get-WindowsImage,Microsoft.Dism.Commands.GetWindowsImageCommand

PS C:\srsv2> .\CreateSrsMediav3

Advertencia de seguridad
Ejecute solo los scripts de confianza. Los scripts procedentes de Internet pueden ser útiles, pero este script podría
dañar su equipo. Si confía en este script, use el cmdlet Unblock-File para permitir que se ejecute sin este mensaje de
advertencia. ¿Desea ejecutar C:\srsv2\CreateSrsMediav3.ps1?
[N] No ejecutar [Z] Ejecutar una vez [U] Suspender [?] Ayuda (el valor predeterminado es "N"): z
Script version 1.0.1
The latest version of this script can always be found at:
https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=867842

What type of customer are you?
OEM or Enterprise: enterprise
Please make sure you have all of the following available:

1. A FAT32-formatted USB drive.
2. Your SRSv2 deployment kit MSI
https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=851168
3. Windows 10 Enterprise media that matches your SRSv2 deployment kit.
4. Driver MSI appropriate for your hardware, and that matches your Windows media.
New Surface Pro: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=55484
Surface Pro 4: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=49498
5. Any language pack (LP and/or LIP) files to be included.
MPSA customers: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=125893
Other volume licensees: http://www.microsoft.com/licensing/servicecenter
6. The necessary cumulative update MSU (if applicable).
Cumulative updates can be downloaded from the catalog at https://www.catalog.update.microsoft.com/Home.aspx

Please do not continue until you have all these items in order.

Looking for an SRS deployment kit...
Located deployment kit SRSDeploymentKit-3.1.100.0.msi
Extracting the deployment kit... done.
This deployment kit is built for Windows build 10.0.16299.15.
This deployment kit draws its drivers from %configsetroot%\AutoUnattend_Files\DistShare\Out-of-Box Drivers.
Looking for a driver pack...
Located Driver Pack SurfacePro_Win10_16299_1710007_0.msi
Extracting the drivers... done.
Identifying language packs...
... done identifying language packs.
Identifying updates... done.
ADVERTENCIA: THIS IS YOUR ONLY CHANCE TO PRE-INSTALL LANGUAGE PACKS.
Because you are pre-installing an update, you will NOT be able to pre-install language packs to the image at a later point.
You are currently building an image with NO pre-installed language packs.
Are you ABSOLUTELY SURE this is what you intended?
YES or NO: yes
ADVERTENCIA: PROCEEDING TO GENERATE SLIPSTREAM IMAGE WITH NO PRE-INSTALLED LANGUAGE PACKS.
[ 0] D:\
Please select a target drive: 0
Please enter the path to the root of your Windows install media: e:
Get-WindowsImage : No hay ninguna imagen coincidente.
En C:\srsv2\CreateSrsMediav3.ps1: 177 Carácter: 12
+ $img = Get-WindowsImage -ImagePath $InstallWim -Name "Windows 10 ...
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (Microsoft.Dism.Commands.BaseDismObject:BaseDismObject) [Get-WindowsImage]
, PSArgumentException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : Get-WindowsImage,Microsoft.Dism.Commands.GetWindowsImageCommand

CreateSRSMedia.ps1 script has been updated to better handle > 4GB file sizes.  Check it out here.

My script has been running now for half an hour; still "copying windows"...and files on the USB stick with a total size of 456 MB...
Will wait some longer...(the "cleaning up the installation image" at the end takes some time)

Update: wrong Enterprise image; no error message. Problem solved with other Enterprise ISO version.
Went a lot faster.

Some tips:

* Formatting a >32 GB USB drive to fat32 with this GUI tool: http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/index.htm?guiformat.htm

* Mount an Enterprise Eng ISO version in windows explorer

* Download the files mentioned on Technet to a folder "123"

* Search for CMD in windows and start it as an admin

* I have used this sctipt at the command dos prompt:
powershell.exe -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -File c:\123\createsrsmedia.ps1

* Script starts running and asks for some questions (told i was enterprise user)

Wow, okay. I am lucky then, it finished now after around 45 minutes. Installation went fine, so lets see the outcome once everything finished. Thanks for your feedback :-)

Hi Christian,

the script ran approx. 2 hours

Pavel Aivazov Great Job. Just trying to get the image prepared after modifying the script as described. The Step Cleanung up the image seems to take much to long. How long did the script need on your end to prepare the USB Stick completly?

Hi all,

I installed Windows 10 1709 + SRS App 3.1.98.0 on Lenovo Hub 500 and it's working fine! No issues so far. On-screen keyboard works in SRS app.

Hi all,

what you need to change in the script to make it work:

The script fails when it tries to copy install.wim from original ISO to USB.

1. Exclude install.wim from copy process:

replace robocopy $WindowsMedia $TargetDrive /mir with robocopy $WindowsMedia $TargetDrive /mir /xf install.wim

 2. Remove line to delete install.wim as it wasn’t copied

delete line del (Join-Path (Join-Path $TargetDrive "sources") "install.wim") -Force

Thanks to Clayton and Eric!