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Friday, June 26, 2009 11:31 AM

Keeping An Eye On USMT Progress

I recently did a project where all users had around 25Gb (don’t ask!) of data that had to be migrated with the USMT during the OS deployment. Because of the sheer volume of data, the USMT phases of the project took an extremely long time to complete,
Posted by Daniel Oxley | 2 Comments
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Attachment(s): USMT_Tracker.vbs
Thursday, June 25, 2009 6:57 PM

Updated Hardware Detection Script

Or… How Not to Create Boolean Properties in an MDT Script I my posts about Windows XP Tablet PC Edition 2005 , I provided a script that could be used for detecting Tablet PC digitizers or an set of devices by Plug & Play ID ( ZTI-DetectHardwareExit.vbs
Posted by DeploymentGuys | 0 Comments
Monday, June 22, 2009 11:13 AM

Installing Applications Using Active Directory Group Membership

Mike recently posted on how to take an MDT action based on group membership in Active Directory. At the same time, I was working on something quite similar but using a different approach, so I thought I’d blog it here to offer an alternative method to
Posted by Daniel Oxley | 10 Comments

Attachment(s): Files.zip
Friday, June 19, 2009 1:25 AM

Setting AD Computer Object MDT Properties

Monday, June 22, 2009 Update – Fellow Deployment Guy Daniel Oxley pointed out to me that this is much more useful if you can pass in an optional username and password. So I have modified the post and the script to allow that. Please note the changes in
Posted by DeploymentGuys | 0 Comments

Attachment(s): ComputerADAttributesExit.zip
Wednesday, June 17, 2009 2:56 PM

Windows 7 and BitLocker command Line

So as Windows 7 accelerates to being released to manufacture and we start to get involved in engagements to deploy it I thought I might take a quick look at some changes to BitLocker and how they might help or hinder deployments. One thing that customers
Posted by DeploymentGuys | 0 Comments
Wednesday, June 17, 2009 2:44 PM

Windows 7 and BitLocker to Go

Here is the second of my posts on BitLocker under Windows 7. While not strictly deployment focused I found these points of interest. We all tend to use USB disks for moving data around and securing these is becoming more important. For example how many
Posted by DeploymentGuys | 0 Comments
Friday, June 12, 2009 10:49 AM

Encoding Command Shell Scripts

On an internal discussion group, the question can up as to whether you could compile or encode a CMD script to prevent casual viewing of the code, similar to what the Script Encoder does for Windows Script Host scripts. So for fun I decided to see if
Posted by DeploymentGuys | 0 Comments

Attachment(s): EncodeCmdInWsf.zip
Sunday, June 07, 2009 4:03 PM

Setting the Time Zone using Windows PowerShell

A few year back a customer of mine was setting the time zone on their computers by directly modifying registry entries. Since the supported way to do this was to use the SetTimeZoneInformation Win32 API, I created a utility in Visual Basic 6 to allow
Posted by DeploymentGuys | 1 Comments

Attachment(s): PSTimeZoneScripts.zip
Friday, June 05, 2009 1:04 PM

Mark Russinovich - Virtual Round Table on WIndows 7Application Compatibility

While this is not 100% MDT/Deployment focused I thought it of enough relevance to post here. I have attended the Virtual Round Tables that Mark has run in the past. I can say that, without exception, I have found them to be of high value and well worth
Posted by DeploymentGuys | 0 Comments
 
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