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Friday, May 30, 2008 9:29 PM

Shameless Self-Promotion #1: Elevation PowerToys for Windows Vista

My post for today is a little off topic (although not too far off). One of the biggest changes to the user experience on Windows Vista is User Account Control (UAC) . I'm not going to repeat the details of UAC here. My purpose today is to make you aware
Posted by DeploymentGuys | 1 Comments
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Thursday, May 29, 2008 9:37 AM

Who are the Deployment Guys

You may be wondering - exactly who is in the crack Deployment Guys and how do I find out more about these special individuals - fear not - for here is the current guide to the Deployment Guys team: You can revisit our Bio's at any time by using the About
Posted by DeploymentGuys | 1 Comments
Monday, May 26, 2008 9:36 AM

Getting caught out by your logon script

Whenever I go onsite with a customer to start a Windows Vista deployment project I always like to discuss with them the issues that we will be having during the project.  I do this so that, together, we can try and avoid having the issues in the
Posted by DeploymentGuys | 3 Comments
Friday, May 23, 2008 5:44 PM

Implementing the "Windows XP Tablet PC Edition 2005 Single-Image Deployment Supplemental Guide" Process in MDT 2008

03 August 2008 - Important Update The content in this post is obsolete. Please see my new August 3rd post for a complete update. I will leave this post up for a while for people who are still using the old scripts. However, I will be deleting the post
Posted by DeploymentGuys | 30 Comments
Attachment(s): MDT XP Pro-Tablet Single Image.zip
Friday, May 23, 2008 1:56 PM

Off Topic: Embedding Sky Drive Links

I have been asked a number of times now how we embed links to SkyDrive hosted files in our blogs. In this Off Topic post I'll cover how you can setup a SkyDrive folder and embed links as we do or send URLs to the files in emails. This would be great if
Posted by rtrusson | 5 Comments
Friday, May 23, 2008 1:25 PM

OSD: Forcing a reboot

In this post I will talk about the method I use to force a reboot at the end of a ZTI task sequence; when running from OSD. This solution was put together with input from Richard Smith a fellow Deployment Guy and also with help from Avanade/Accenture
Posted by rtrusson | 13 Comments
Thursday, May 22, 2008 12:14 AM

Configuring default settings for Windows image deployment - Update for Windows XP SP3

In my previous post on this topic, I mentioned that Windows XP Service Pack 2 will copy the Administrators settings to Default User (see sections B & C). The new profile copy is the default behavior in SP2 with no built-in way to disable it. To disable
Posted by DeploymentGuys | 19 Comments
Tuesday, May 20, 2008 4:24 PM

ConfigMgr for Deployment - Rough Sizing Guidelines

I have been doing some sizing work for a customer around System Center Configuration Manager 2007 (ConfigMgr) and its use specifically for deployment (Windows Vista)– there seems to be some conflicting info in many different places – however
Posted by DeploymentGuys | 3 Comments
Monday, May 19, 2008 5:03 PM

Managing Windows Updates

When creating a new operating system WIM image with MDT, one of the things that you should always examine is the new updates for Windows that you will include; my recommendation has always been to make sure that the image is as up-to-date as possible
Posted by DeploymentGuys | 19 Comments
Monday, May 12, 2008 7:40 AM

Expanding the Scratch Space in Windows PE 2.1

Recently, I have had to create a bigger scratch space (the MDT X: drive) in Windows PE to deal with the injection of a largish driver during a Windows Vista deployment. The driver in question is the NVidia driver for the Lenovo P60 and P61 and because
Posted by DeploymentGuys | 4 Comments
Thursday, May 01, 2008 2:24 PM

Dealing With Duplicate User Profile Links in Windows Vista

Overview of Windows Vista User Profiles In previous versions of Windows the user's profile was largely hidden away and only the more technically-minded of us would ever knowingly delve into its contents.  With Windows Vista there seems to have been
Posted by DeploymentGuys | 5 Comments
 
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