Microsoft KB Archive/817871

= Documentation Error in the &quot;Installing the Cluster Service&quot; Topic in the Deploy.Chm File on the Windows Server 2003 CD-ROM =

PSS ID Number: 817871

Article Last Modified on 10/30/2003

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The information in this article applies to:


 * Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Datacenter Edition
 * Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Enterprise Edition

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SUMMARY
This article describes a documentation error on the Windows Server 2003 CD-ROM. This error appears in the &quot;Installing the Cluster Service&quot; topic in the Deploy.chm file.

This article also contains information about the correct steps for an unattended installation of server clusters in Windows Server 2003.



MORE INFORMATION
The following &quot;Installing the Cluster Service&quot; topic on the Windows Server 2003 CD-ROM contains a documentation error.

Note The &quot;Installing the Cluster Service&quot; topic resides in the Deploy.chm file in the Support\Tools\Deploy.cab file.

Installing the Cluster Service

Enabling the Cluster service in the [Components] section of the Unattend.txt answer file is sufficient to install the necessary files. To make sure that the Cluster service is installed completely, create an [GuiRunOnce] entry for it.

To install the Cluster service

 In the [Components] section of the Unattend.txt file, set cluster = on. In the Unattend.txt file, add the [Cluster] section and all of its entries. In the [GuiRunOnce] section of the Unattend.txt file, add

&quot;%WINDIR%\cluster\cluscfg.exe -unattend&quot;

[GuiRunOnce] entries are run after Setup completes at the user's first logon.

Any entries specified in [GuiRunOnce] are saved on the computer and are processed only after rebooting, not during unattended Setup.

This procedure does not apply to the deployment of server clusters in Windows Server 2003 because step 3 incorrectly references the Cluscfg.exe command. Cluscfg.exe is not included with Windows Server 2003, and you cannot use it to install the Cluster service.

In Windows Server 2003, the cluster service files are already on the system and the Cluster.exe command is used to configure the Cluster service to either create a cluster or add nodes to the cluster. To correctly perform an unattended configuration of the Cluster service in Windows Server 2003, follow these steps:  To install the Cluster service, add the [GuiRunOnce] entry to your Unattend.txt, as follows:

[GuiRunOnce]

 To create a cluster (or set up the first node in the cluster), add the following entry to the GuiRunOnce section:

[GuiRunOnce]

Command0 = &quot;%windir%\cluster /cluster: /create /node: /user: \  /pass:  /ipaddr: &quot;

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To add nodes to an existing cluster, add the following entry to the GuiRunOnce section:

[GuiRunOnce]

Command0 = &quot;%windir%\ cluster /cluster: /addnodes:  /password: &quot;



For more information about Cluster.exe and how to plan for and perform unattended installations of server clusters in Windows Server 2003, see the &quot;Cluster: Command-line reference&quot; and &quot;Checklist: Preparation for installing a cluster&quot; topics in Windows Server 2003 Help.

For more information about this topic, visit the following Microsoft Web site:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/prodtechnol/windowsserver2003/deploy/confeat/mscclust.asp

For more information about Cluster.exe, visit the following Microsoft Web site:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/prodtechnol/windowsserver2003/proddocs/entserver/sag_mscsaclstexe_2.asp

Keywords: kbinfo KB817871

Technology: kbWinServ2003Data kbWinServ2003DataSearch kbWinServ2003Ent kbWinServ2003EntSearch kbWinServ2003Search

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