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There was a request to have a new tool custom report tool created for our Bugzilla installation so I had to re-deploy a copy of Bugzilla onto our development environment. Installation was a bit tricky with a specific Perl module (YAML) being the main issue. The install script keeps saying that this is missing:

Checking for YAML (any) not found

Checking the system, YAML is indeed installed and available. What is actually broken is the CPAN.pm file in the Bugzilla package – it doesn’t require the module.

To fix this, add the YAML module into the CPAN.pm file found in the bugzilla/lib directory. Search for:

use Text::Wrap ();

And replace with:

use Text::Wrap ();
use YAML;

Running the install script now works with no errors.

We’re deploying a new WDS (Windows Deployment Service) server at work and at first everything looked alright until I ran into my first snag – I wasn’t able to start the role / server after I installed it.

Looking everywhere on the manuals and guides provided by Microsoft didn’t help either. All they say is to add the role to the server and then configure the server with deployment images etc.

Upon closer inspection, it seems like you need to initialize the server before it will even start. In order to do this, you need to run a command via an elevated command prompt window:

wdsutil.exe /initialize-server /reminst:<path to WDS data files>

I created my own folder for the WDS data files and then plugged that into the command. WDS started up with no further issues.

Next posting… how to get WDS to work with multiple subnets. I’ll post that when I get it sorted out!