One of the things that you may need to do - particularly if you are tying to automate the creation of a deployment server in a lab environment - is install the Windows Automated Installation Kit. You may think that because Windows AIK is supplied as ...

For those that need (or want) to know the intricacies of what is included with Windows Vista, the newly updated (for SP1) Windows Vista Product Guide is available for download. The 334 page Windows Vista Product Guide provides a comprehensive overview...

A lot of people think that because BDD and MDT are free products they are not eligible for support from Microsoft. This question seems to crop up quite often and people are often surprised when I point out the truth! So, in true A-Team spirit (i.e...

I am very happy with the progress of the deployment guys blog so far. Hopefully you all agree that we are providing useful content to help you with deployment. But don’t forget our old blogs :). They contain heaps of great content that is still very relevant...

The SCCM 2007 Operating System Deployment components use the Windows Automated Installation Toolkit (WAIK) for creating, managing, and deploying Windows Imaging (WIM) images. SCCM 2007 setup installs the Windows Vista RTM WAIK (WAIK 1.0) during installation...

One of the things that you may want to do during a build or deployment process is turn off the Windows Vista sidebar for the period of the process and then turn it back on again at the end. This can be for a number of reasons including that you don't...

When injecting drivers using the "Auto-apply Drivers" task you can filter the drivers that are injected based on the hardware type. The MDT documentation identifies a method of doing this but it his requires an update to the task sequence every time you...

I thought that since Richard Trusson offered you the chance to meet a Deployment Guy in the UK that I should offer a chance to meet one in the US. So if you want to come and meet another one of the Deployment Guys and talk deployment here's your chance...

I am often asked what the best way is to manage drivers with both BDD/MDT and ConfigMgr. With this in mind I thought I would create two blog posts dealing with this topic. The first post covered ConfigMgr and the second (this post) BDD/MDT driver management...

When developing a build it is often useful to have it in debug mode. Debug mode is when log content is echoed to the screen during the build and all the logs, including variables.dat, are copied to the c:\windows\temp\bddlogs folder on completion. Ben...

If you want to come and meet one of the Deployment Guys and talk deployment here's your chance. I will be helping out at the Microsoft UK Windows Server 2008 TechNet Road show on April 30th in Manchester at the Odeon. I am not presenting so you will have...

I have had a number of emails and comments requesting the location for the video walkthroughs featuring BDD 2007 Lite Touch and BDD 2007/SMS 2003 Zero Touch Setup, so I have re-posted them to the Deployment Guys SkyDrive for download: The BDD 2007...