Michael Niehaus' Windows and Office deployment ramblings - All Comments

re: MDT 2012 New Feature: Item Sorting

Rob — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 15:22:42 GMT

This seems like a no brainer to me. yet, the wizard pages still fail to sort anything. Specially problematic if using selectable roles tweak which pull from the db. I know there are a few workarounds out there, including a sorting script you've written but it is not dynamic/realtime. Why hasn't this been added as a core functionality of MDT?

re: MDT 2012 Update 1: Roles and Features improvements

Bendo — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 01:13:07 GMT

Hi,

Great work,

How to configure the roles and features once installed? As in SMTP or IIS6 config? Is this possible with MDT?

Thanks.

re: Troubleshooting MDT 2012 Monitoring

Bruun — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 14:50:58 GMT

With a proxy enabled in IE the service will fail to start

re: MDT 2012 New Feature: DaRT integration

click-click — Sun, 14 Apr 2013 09:59:51 GMT

"Tool requires a supported offline OS" is caused by a missing BCD when booting DaRT8. In my case, it does not have the smarts to handle multiboot systems if it can't find a BCD to use. Now, how dumb is that for a recovery app?

If you use DaRT7 in the same situation, it will create the BCD for you and ask you to reboot. Once you have this BCD, it can also be used for DaRT8. I now keep the BCD on my flash drive where I boot either DaRT7 or DaRT8 from and this allows me to use all of the DART tools now that I have an option of choosing a system for repair.

re: Manipulating the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit database using PowerShell

Lucas — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 10:20:17 GMT

Hello, and thanks for this module

I just want ton know if it is possible to get just the ID of a location whith known name

something like

$ID = Get-MDTLocation.ID -name xxxx

re: Manipulating the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit database using PowerShell

MTM — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 16:42:04 GMT

Sorry, I forgot to mention that for thousands of PCs, we use Description=OSDComputerName just so that I could support querying by name...

re: Manipulating the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit database using PowerShell

MTM — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 16:39:50 GMT

Hello, and many many thanks. Any idea why Get-MDTComputer -description MYPCNAME always throws an error? Walking through the psm file, it should work, but the error is that ComputerSettings has no such column. In fact, in the output of Get-MDTComputer, no computer has the description listed. Is that intentional? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! --Matt

re: MDT 2012 New Feature: DaRT integration

click-click — Sun, 07 Apr 2013 12:16:45 GMT

I just got around to creating a DaRT8 iso. I used the Dart defaults and during creation, all tools were shown as selected. I booted the iso without any problems, but I cannot use all of the tools. All are listed, but some have no active links and cannot be launched.

Also DaRT 8 is erroneously not finding any offline systems and the Recovery Tools screen for OS selection does not appear for me. I have a multi-boot setup where drive1 has XP and Vista and drive2 has Win7 and Win8. All are bootable. I don't understand why DaRT has a problem finding them.

I've seen on other forums that I'm not the only one with this problem. Do you have any ideas how to fix this?

re: Troubleshooting the User State Migration Tool 4.0

endtroducing — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 17:49:20 GMT

Hi! Is there a way to migrate empty folders?

Thanks for the great post!

re: Using the Windows Performance Toolkit

Seth — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 16:35:56 GMT

Very nice. I'm going to try this out.