The Deployment Guys

Works a treat, only snag was my own fault.. copied text of xsl and created the file rather than saving the xsl from the link.

Sorry I can't find a better place to ask this.  As someone who has been deploying images for 8 years using sysprep, Bart Boot CD and Ghost, I can really appreciate what you do.  I have a single image that covers 700 dekstop and laptop models which is great.  I would really like to take my processes to the next step with PXE Boot, ImageX, etc.  Problem is, I just have too many questions and I find a lot of the documentation to be difficult to follow.  I'm stuck in Windows XP by corporate declaration so, I have to reach around to understand any differences between the Vista oriented docs.  Anyway, without getting any deeper, I'm really looking to have this question answered:

Is there any official training out there?  I have not seen such a thing.  I think I benefit most from classroom training and a lot of the subjects you cover assume I have a grasp on the basics of BDD (obviously I don't).

Thanks and sorry if this is the wrong place to ask such a question.. you're definitely the right guys

Thanks Aly,

Never considered that there are consultants who could give me the knowledge, experience I crave.  We'll see what I can find and if I can convince my company to pay for such a thing.

Fred,

I'd be glad to help with email or a phone conversation. There are some fundamentals with MDT and ConfigMgr OSD but once you have them the rest becomes common sense. As you have deployed builds before I reckon once you've had the opportunity to bounce your questions off someone you'll  be away, and this really is a great way to deploy your builds.

Cheers,

Carl

carl262 at hotmail dot com

Great tool.  One question, though.  Is there a way to have a better visual separation between each task?  It all sort of runs together the way it is.  Even just a line between each one or alternating background colors.

I dug a bit into how to do xsl formatting and found the answer to my question so figured I'd share it.

First, you need to set up the colors for the alternating rows.  To do this, replace the TD.step background color in the STYLE section with a TD.step_0 and TD.step_1.  Set them to the two colors that you want (I used FFF7E2 and FFF1BF which look OK).

Then go through the rest of the document and look for lines that say "Class = "step"" and replace them with "Class="step_{position()  mod 2}"

The code "position() mod 2" will return 0 for even lines, and 1 for odd lines, and use the background color step_0 or step_1 alternately.

It's much easier to read that way.

This is an awesome tool.

To address Sam's quest a little further. I took each output and paste it into Excel. Then you can manipulate it however you want. In my case with SCCM I use 3 different tasks to get to a final product so this allowed me to put the whole process in excel so I have a final document to turn in.

Chris S.

This awesome little tool was posted on the email list today.   http://blogs.technet.com/deploymentguys

Dumb question...  We are using the exported TS, to edit and put stuff in the second line.

Once we do add in the stuff in the second line, can that exported TS XML file STILL be used to import with, or, does the second line have to be removed?

Thanks!