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Monday, December 22, 2008 7:15 PM

Silently Installing the Elevation PowerToys in MDT

In a previous post I shamelessly promoted my Elevation PowerToys for Windows Vista. I recently was contacted by one of our support engineers about installing these tools. The customer wanted to install most of them in their Windows Server 2008 reference
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Attachment(s): InstallAllPowerToysSilent.zip
Monday, December 22, 2008 10:33 AM

Configuring Default Settings for Windows image deployment - KB Article Published

Just a small update on this topic. Microsoft has now published a Knowledge Base article, KB959753 , that documents the "automated profile copy" methods for Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows XP, and Windows Server 2003. The old "manual or scripted
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Friday, December 12, 2008 10:00 AM

"Easy" List Items for the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit

In MDT rules processing with CustomSettings.ini, some of the items that can be configured are List Items. List Items are essentially multi-valued custom properties. Examples of items that are List Items are Applications in LTI and Packages in ZTI. To
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Attachment(s): EasyListItemExit.zip
Friday, December 05, 2008 9:53 AM

Vista SP2

Well Vista Service Pack 2 CTP is available. Information is scattered across the web, including the Windows Vista home page and the Springboard Series Site . It was first released to MSDN and TechNet subscribers. A public download link is now here ( http://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/windowsserver/dd262148.aspx
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Thursday, December 04, 2008 11:24 PM

User Experience for Configuration Manager Task Sequences - Part I

Ever wanted to add your own user communication and interaction to a Configuration Manager task sequence? Below is an HTML Application (HTA) that has a user interface for the task sequence with information about the deployment, a button to cancel or pause
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Attachment(s): UserExperience.zip
 
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