64bit Client Computers Not Receiving 64bit WinPE Images

I stumbled across this problem and solution whilst attempting, for the first time, to deploy 64bit versions of Windows 7 through the MDT and WDS on Windows Server 2003.

Upon PXE boot, the only options you have is to boot into any current or default 32bit images. This happens even if 64bit images are loaded in the WDS console as an install, boot or capture image and have no known problems.

To rectify this and enable client architecture detection, just run the following command from an administrator console on the server:

wdsutil /set-server /architecturediscovery:yes

The client will boot as normal but download a small program called wdsnbp.com which will determine the client architecture type and allow selection of 64bit WinPE as long as the client supports it.

Changing MS Office 2010 Product Keys

After slight hiccup upgrading some PCs to Office 2010, I thought some of you guys may find this information useful.

You can change the product key for Office 2010 packages as follows:

1. Open a command prompt window in C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office14
2. Type “cscript ospp.vbs /inpkey:xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx” Replacing the x’s with the appropriate product key.
3. Once this has completed successfully, you can proceed to activate Office 2010 from the Help menu inside any Office 2010 program.

Additionally, running the ospp.vbs file without any parameters will bring up a help menu with some additional and potentially helpful commands.