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Thursday, July 31, 2008 9:12 PM

Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) 2008 Update 1 Released

The MDT Team has released the first Update to MDT 2008 (which is really the second update to MDT, hence the 4.2 version number). The main new features for this release are support for OEM preload scenarios (i.e. having the PC vendor preload an image onto
Posted by DeploymentGuys | 16 Comments
Monday, July 28, 2008 8:59 PM

Task Sequence logic tricks using MDT variables

In my particular part of the Microsoft organization (the CTS testing lab), we install just about every OS, at every service pack level, on both major platforms. Because of this, I created a master template that is used to create dozens of task sequences
Posted by DeploymentGuys | 3 Comments
Wednesday, July 09, 2008 10:41 AM

MDT Script Explanations

I get quite a few emails from people asking if there is a help file that details all of the scripts that are supplied with Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT). The scripts form the engine of a deployment and can also help you to develop a framework for
Posted by DeploymentGuys | 1 Comments
Monday, July 07, 2008 5:59 PM

Useful Script Number 6 - Pausing the Task Sequence

Have you ever wanted to pause the task sequence in MDT 2008 or ConfigMgr 2007 for a few seconds while something catches up...? I had a requirement to do this recently where I ran a task to close and cancel the Windows Sidebar at the start of the State
Posted by DeploymentGuys | 5 Comments
Friday, July 04, 2008 8:42 AM

Editing the HTML template files

A great new tool has been released that allows you to edit the contents of those XML/HTML files you see during the WinPE phases of a deployment using MDT, the MDT Wizard Editor . I saw a demo of this tool a while back but was never able to get my hands
Posted by DeploymentGuys | 7 Comments
 
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