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Confessions of a Microsoft Consultant
Daniel Oxley is an Infrastucture Consultant working for Microsoft Consulting Services in Madrid, Spain. He specialises, amongst other things, in large-scale deployments of Microsoft Windows using technologies such as BDD2007 and the Microsoft Deployment
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Updating your deployment point programmatically
DanielOxley
I was asked recently if it was possible to launch an "Update" and/or an "Update (files only)" in MDT via a script as my client did not want to open the MMC console just to update their Distribution Point. Well, yes it is possible and here you have a PowerShell script that does...
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8 Jan 2008
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Bad news and good news in the BBD/MDT world
DanielOxley
I have some bad news and good news to share about the world of Microsoft deployment, gasp! The bad news is that the BDD gurus Ben Hunter and Richard Smith (amongst many others) are planning on discontinuing their blogs. The good news is that they are combining their efforts along with all the other...
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3 Jan 2008
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Editing the registry of your WIM without having to recapture
DanielOxley
I often get asked if it is possible to edit the registry of my captured OS (in WIM format) without actually having to apply the image and then recapture it. Well, yes it is possible, and here is how to do it. Mount your WIM file with ImageX: imagex /mountrw myOS.wim 1 c:\mount Load the desired...
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13 Dec 2007
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Creating a WIM the quick way...
DanielOxley
IMAGEX is a fantastic tool, but it has a command line that can, at times, be way too complicated. As of yet, there is no official, nice, easy-to-use interface or GUI to simplify the whole thing although a couple of people have posted DIY ones on the web with various levels of success. My current client...
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27 Nov 2007
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All spaced out
DanielOxley
Well, as this is my first post on my blog I thought I'd use it to share the solution to a problem I had recently so that nobody else needs go through the stress of debugging it! My current project is to install and configure BDD 2007 so that my client can create images for their standard desktop build...
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25 Nov 2007
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