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Tuesday, March 03, 2009 8:29 PM

Deploying Win 7 to Boot From VHD with MDT 2010

One of the more difficult scenarios that customers have found in the past is multi-booting a new OS. The effort needed to re-partition the drive to allow for the new OS is sometimes too great. One new solution that is gaining ground in deployment is Boot
Posted by DeploymentGuys | 10 Comments
Attachment(s): ZTIDiskpartVHD.zip
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, June 06, 2008 3:03 PM

Useful Script Number 5 - Adjusting the Default User Registry Hive

Michael Murgolo did a great post on the different ways to adjust default settings when building an image ( Configuring default settings for Windows image deployment ) and one of the options presented was to targeted changes to the Default User Registry
Posted by DeploymentGuys | 7 Comments
Monday, May 26, 2008 9:36 AM

Getting caught out by your logon script

Whenever I go onsite with a customer to start a Windows Vista deployment project I always like to discuss with them the issues that we will be having during the project.  I do this so that, together, we can try and avoid having the issues in the
Posted by DeploymentGuys | 3 Comments
Thursday, May 01, 2008 2:24 PM

Dealing With Duplicate User Profile Links in Windows Vista

Overview of Windows Vista User Profiles In previous versions of Windows the user's profile was largely hidden away and only the more technically-minded of us would ever knowingly delve into its contents.  With Windows Vista there seems to have been
Posted by DeploymentGuys | 5 Comments
Wednesday, April 30, 2008 8:25 PM

Useful Script Number 4 - Silent Installation of Windows AIK 1.1

One of the things that you may need to do - particularly if you are tying to automate the creation of a deployment server in a lab environment - is install the Windows Automated Installation Kit. You may think that because Windows AIK is supplied as .msi
Posted by DeploymentGuys | 3 Comments
Friday, April 18, 2008 7:58 PM

Updating System Center Configuration Manager 2007 for Windows Vista Service Pack 1 and Windows Server 2008 Deployment

The SCCM 2007 Operating System Deployment components use the Windows Automated Installation Toolkit (WAIK) for creating, managing, and deploying Windows Imaging (WIM) images. SCCM 2007 setup installs the Windows Vista RTM WAIK (WAIK 1.0) during installation
Posted by DeploymentGuys | 0 Comments
Attachment(s): ExportDefaultBootImages.zip
Friday, April 18, 2008 11:39 AM

Useful Script Number 3 - Turning the Windows Vista Sidebar On and Off

One of the things that you may want to do during a build or deployment process is turn off the Windows Vista sidebar for the period of the process and then turn it back on again at the end. This can be for a number of reasons including that you don't
Posted by DeploymentGuys | 1 Comments
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Monday, March 10, 2008 10:04 AM

Useful Script Number 1 - Start and Stop Services

So over the next few weeks, I will be presenting a mini series of scripts that may useful in your deployments. All of the scripts will be BDD/MDT specific - meaning that they can be run from the task sequencer and will have the correct format for using
Posted by DeploymentGuys | 4 Comments
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