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Thursday, October 22, 2009 2:06 AM

Approving Windows Updates in an MDT 2010 Standalone Environment from a ConfigMgr Software Update Point

You’ve no doubt read some of the benefits around using the Software Update Point features of ConfigMgr. However, if you are already using MDT standalone as an Image Engineering environment – there is sometimes a duplication in having to manage software
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Attachment(s): ApproveUpdatesinWSUS.zip
Wednesday, September 23, 2009 7:24 PM

Making WinPE Wait for Network in LTI Deployments

In some environments, network device drivers and/or infrastructure take longer to load than WinPE waits before running the task sequence. This can be due to congested DHCP scopes, link negotiation latency or slow loading network drivers. In these cases,
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Attachment(s): WaitForNetwork.zip
Monday, September 21, 2009 1:36 PM

Using Device Aliases for Hardware Specific Application Installation

In my last post I described how to use and extend model aliases. In this installment I show how you can do the same thing with individual devices or groups of devices. Defining setting, applications, etc. by model works in many instances. However, there
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Attachment(s): ZTI-DetectHardwareExit.zip
Thursday, September 10, 2009 9:30 AM

Using and Extending Model Aliases for Hardware Specific Application Installation

In a post on his blog from a few years ago (found here ) Ben Hunter described a method of creating and using model aliases using BDD/MDT User Exit scripts. A model alias is a friendly name assigned to cover multiple model variations in a manufacturer’s
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Attachment(s): ModelAliasExit.zip
Wednesday, September 02, 2009 5:41 PM

Keeping An Eye On USMT Progress v0.2

Back in June I posted a script that I’d written that displays the progress of the USMT capture and recover phases in a neat HTML window off to one side of the screen; particularly useful if you are capturing/recovering large amounts of data because otherwise
Posted by Daniel Oxley | 3 Comments
Attachment(s): CUSTOM_USMT_Tracker.vbs
Monday, August 17, 2009 5:37 PM

Location Deployment Wizard for ConfigMgr 2007

When working on deployment projects, there is often a requirement for a workstation to be customised on a location by location basis. Common workstation customisations which are applied in this manner include: Localisation settings (locales, keyboard
Posted by DeploymentGuys | 7 Comments
Attachment(s): Location Deployment Wizard.zip
Friday, July 17, 2009 3:30 PM

Persisting ConfigMgr Packages during a Task Sequence

The MDT Task Sequences for System Center Configuration Manager 2007 use a clever technique to download and persist the MDT Files package during each phase of the Task Sequence. The Use Toolkit Package step uses the ZTISCCM.wsf script to copy the contents
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Attachment(s): ZTI-PersistSccmPackage.zip
Monday, July 13, 2009 8:55 PM

Single WIM Deployment of Windows XP Professional and Tablet PC Edition (and Other Operating Systems)

Update 2009-07-17: Corrected some errors in the application settings in the Extracting the Sysprep Files section that occured because I did not make all necessary changes after doing a copy/paste. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Attachment(s): XP_Single_WIM.zip
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,
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Attachment(s): USMT_Tracker.vbs
Wednesday, April 29, 2009 1:48 PM

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
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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Thursday, November 20, 2008 9:57 AM

Back to basics #3 – Branding the deployment and fixing the 0xc000000e problem

Two more tips for the blog. Actually, one is a tip and the other is the solution to a common problem I see! During the execution of a task sequence in MDT (normally while creating an image, or deploying one) the computer will display the Installation
Posted by DeploymentGuys | 7 Comments
Thursday, March 20, 2008 9:35 AM

SCCM 2007 and Microsoft Deployment Toolkit - Video Walkthrough

Are you struggling with setting up SCCM 2007 Operating System Deployment and integrating MDT? - I have created a video walkthrough that shows you how to: Setup the server environment for SCCM 2007 OS deployment Configure the SCCM 2007 Site Settings Configure
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Thursday, March 13, 2008 10:20 AM

Microsoft Deployment Toolkit - Lite Touch Video Walkthrough

Are you struggling with setting up MDT Lite Touch? - I have created a video walkthrough that shows you how to: Add operating systems, applications, drivers and packages to MDT Configure Office 2007 into the build process Create a MDT Lite Touch task sequence
Posted by DeploymentGuys | 23 Comments
 
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