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Monday, March 30, 2009 9:00 AM

Deploying Windows 7 VL with MAK (Multiple Access Keys) using MDT 2010

My esteemed colleague - Doug Klokow who is a Senior Consultant in the worldwide deployment practice, working with Windows 7 TAP (Technical Adoption Program) customers in the US has put together a most useful set of instructions regarding Windows 7 deployment
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Friday, March 06, 2009 3:44 PM

Boot from VHD and WDS

Following on from Aly’s excellent article about configuring MDT to support Boot from VHD I thought I would add some words about WDS and boot from VHD. Windows Server 2008 R2 contains an enhanced version of the WDS server. I will talk about some of the
Posted by DeploymentGuys | 6 Comments
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
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Wednesday, February 04, 2009 9:47 AM

GImageX Beta for Windows 7 Beta

The Windows Automated Installation Kit (Windows AIK) is a set of tools and documentation that support the configuration and deployment of Microsoft® Windows® operating systems.. By using Windows AIK, you can automate Windows installations, capture Windows
Posted by DeploymentGuys | 3 Comments
Friday, October 17, 2008 10:48 AM

Back to basics #2 – 7 Things you shouldn’t do in a LiteTouch Deployment

The below list is a list of the most common mistakes made when creating a LiteTouch task sequence. While not an exhaustive list, it might help to improve your deployment experience when using MDT to create LiteTouch deployments. 1.) Hard-code paths to
Posted by DeploymentGuys | 6 Comments
Wednesday, October 01, 2008 8:26 AM

Back to basics #1 – Locking the computer during deployment

This is the first post in a series that will cover some of the more simple/basic tricks that you can do with MDT, but that are often overlooked.  I’ll be the first to admit that a couple of them I only learnt recently, even though I have been using
Posted by DeploymentGuys | 9 Comments
Monday, July 28, 2008 8:59 PM

Task Sequence logic tricks using MDT variables

In my particular part of the Microsoft organization (the CTS testing lab), we install just about every OS, at every service pack level, on both major platforms. Because of this, I created a master template that is used to create dozens of task sequences
Posted by DeploymentGuys | 3 Comments
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
Monday, May 12, 2008 7:40 AM

Expanding the Scratch Space in Windows PE 2.1

Recently, I have had to create a bigger scratch space (the MDT X: drive) in Windows PE to deal with the injection of a largish driver during a Windows Vista deployment. The driver in question is the NVidia driver for the Lenovo P60 and P61 and because
Posted by DeploymentGuys | 4 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
Wednesday, April 30, 2008 3:25 PM

Windows Vista Product Guide (Updated for SP1) now Available

For those that need (or want) to know the intricacies of what is included with Windows Vista, the newly updated (for SP1) Windows Vista Product Guide is available for download. The 334 page Windows Vista Product Guide provides a comprehensive overview
Posted by DeploymentGuys | 0 Comments
Friday, April 25, 2008 8:42 AM

Getting help when you are really stuck

A lot of people think that because BDD and MDT are free products they are not eligible for support from Microsoft. This question seems to crop up quite often and people are often surprised when I point out the truth! So, in true A-Team spirit (i.e. "If
Posted by DeploymentGuys | 3 Comments
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