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April 2009 - Posts

Excluding USB, FireWire and other drives from USMT Capture

A common requirement during user state migration is to not capture data from certain drives. The most commonly requested for exclusion are removable drives such as USB and FireWire drives. There is no command line option to exclude these drives automatically
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Attachment(s): USMTExcludeDrives.zip

Pin Items to the Start Menu or Windows 7 Taskbar via Script

Update 28 April 2009 – This post originally had the sample scripts pinning the executable (calc.exe) directly. A colleague of mine pointed out that it would be better to pin the Start Menu shortcuts for items instead of directly pinning the executable.
Posted by DeploymentGuys | 3 Comments

Attachment(s): PinItem.zip

ACT 5.5 Releases April 3rd

An email managed to squeeze its way into my inbox over night announcing that the Application Compatibility Toolkit version 5.5 would be available for download on April 3rd (Redmond Time). This is the version that fully supports Windows 7 RC and Windows

MDT 2010 Webcast

Michael Niehaus’ walkthrough/webcast of MDT 2010 Beta 2 is now available online as Michael indicates on his blog here: http://blogs.technet.com/mniehaus/archive/2009/04/01/mdt-2010-partner-webcast-recording-available.aspx You have to register to download
 
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