The Deployment Guys - All Comments

re: PXE Deployment with Surface Pro

Ben Hunter — Sun, 19 May 2013 01:58:37 GMT

Hi Steve,

You will need to perform the update process from running OS, this means that you will need to perhaps boot to the OS that is delivered with the device and then perform the update. This could be done via Windows Update or Manually as described in this post - blogs.technet.com/.../deploying-drivers-and-firmware-to-surface-pro.aspx. Please not that the firmware updates are not available via WSUS, only Windows Update or via the Firmware and drivers pack.

Thanks,

Ben

re: Non-shrinking WIM files

Graham — Sat, 18 May 2013 13:26:43 GMT

Thanks for posting this, exactly what I needed to shrink my constantly modified WIM files

all the best

Graham

re: Deploying Drivers and Firmware to Surface Pro

Ryan Engstrom — Fri, 17 May 2013 14:01:39 GMT

Disregard my previous post. After running through the first set of Windows Updates, the unknown device was installed.

re: Deploying Drivers and Firmware to Surface Pro

Ryan Engstrom — Fri, 17 May 2013 13:43:21 GMT

I am attempting to install the drivers manually after doing a clean install of Windows 8 Enterprise x64. I created and ran the PowerShell script. The only device I can't find a driver for is the 'PCI Simple Communications Controller'. Any ideas?

re: PXE Deployment with Surface Pro

Steve Beaumont — Fri, 17 May 2013 06:05:18 GMT

More to the point, for a new just unboxed Surface Pro, how can we get the firmware update on it to allow PXE booting without having to go through the process of setting it up, connecting to the internet and downloading via wsus?

Thanks,

Steve

re: PXE Deployment with Surface Pro

Ben Hunter — Thu, 16 May 2013 21:46:41 GMT

Hi Ryan,

The official Surface Pro Ethernet Adapter is required.

Thanks,

Ben

re: PXE Deployment with Surface Pro

Ryan Engstrom — Thu, 16 May 2013 21:32:27 GMT

Is the Surface Pro Ethernet Adapter required, or can other usb Ethernet adapters be used? I have attempted to boot to an HP usb adapter and it just continues to boot to Windows.

re: Windows 8 BitLocker Deployment and PowerShell

Matt Bailey [Microsoft] — Tue, 14 May 2013 15:32:51 GMT

Hi Khayyam,

Which commands are you trying to run and what errors are you seeing returned?

Matt

re: Windows 8 BitLocker Deployment and PowerShell

Khayyam Mahmood — Mon, 13 May 2013 11:48:02 GMT

i cant use the Bitlocker cmdlets in WinPE 4.0 in ConfigMgr 2012 although the optional components "WinPE-SecureStartUp" is included to the WinPE 4.0

re: Removing Built-in Applications from Windows 8

Matt — Fri, 10 May 2013 16:52:34 GMT

Never mind that last comment it doesn't remove the tiles from users that previously logged on, but new ones it does.