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March 2008 - Posts

Monday, March 31, 2008 11:10 AM

"Up-ping" the uptime of your Lite-Touch server

I like the lite-touch installation (LTI) feature of MDT, it think it's great and is very impressive as it allows clients to easily see the benefit that they will gain by using MDT to create and deploy their images. I can go on-site with a customer to
Posted by DeploymentGuys | 3 Comments
Tuesday, March 25, 2008 9:17 PM

MDT 2008 and BDD 2007 Update 2 Released

So - The latest update to Microsoft Deployment Toolkit and BDD 2007 make them both Windows Vista SP1 and Windows Server 2008-Ready! Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2008-Unified Tools and Guidance for Desktop and Server Deployment Automation. Download here!
Posted by DeploymentGuys | 15 Comments
Tuesday, March 25, 2008 7:47 PM

Workstation Migration Assistant

Dan Cunningham's Workstation Migration Assistant (WMA) is a visual wrapper for the User State Migration Tool , designed to simplify the capture / restore process for  end-users, and at the same time being highly configurable so that it can be customised
Posted by DeploymentGuys | 5 Comments
Thursday, March 20, 2008 9:35 AM

SCCM 2007 and Microsoft Deployment Toolkit - Video Walkthrough

Are you struggling with setting up SCCM 2007 Operating System Deployment and integrating MDT? - I have created a video walkthrough that shows you how to: Setup the server environment for SCCM 2007 OS deployment Configure the SCCM 2007 Site Settings Configure
Posted by DeploymentGuys | 41 Comments
Wednesday, March 19, 2008 11:33 AM

Useful Script Number 2 - Move the Task Sequence Window

Have you ever created a build and had to pop up a message to the user/technician? - or had to start an HTA application to request some kind of user input during the build or deployment process? If you have then you will know that the task sequence window
Posted by DeploymentGuys | 9 Comments
Thursday, March 13, 2008 10:20 AM

Microsoft Deployment Toolkit - Lite Touch Video Walkthrough

Are you struggling with setting up MDT Lite Touch? - I have created a video walkthrough that shows you how to: Add operating systems, applications, drivers and packages to MDT Configure Office 2007 into the build process Create a MDT Lite Touch task sequence
Posted by DeploymentGuys | 23 Comments
Wednesday, March 12, 2008 10:24 AM

Lite-Touch Deployments - Making them a bit more scalable

Take a look at the image below, which is a fairly common scenario for a company; let's call them Contoso. Contoso has multiple offices around the country that all connected to their head office, some with high-speed network connections and others with
Posted by DeploymentGuys | 22 Comments
Monday, March 10, 2008 10:59 AM

OSD: Dynamic Application Installation

In this post I am going to talk about a solution I put together for a customer around OSD and application installation by querying a collection. Anyone who has used Zero Touch Installation will be familiar with the ability to install applications from
Posted by DeploymentGuys | 11 Comments
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Monday, March 10, 2008 10:04 AM

Useful Script Number 1 - Start and Stop Services

So over the next few weeks, I will be presenting a mini series of scripts that may useful in your deployments. All of the scripts will be BDD/MDT specific - meaning that they can be run from the task sequencer and will have the correct format for using
Posted by DeploymentGuys | 4 Comments
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