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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
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
Sunday, August 17, 2008 6:53 AM

Documenting Your Task Sequences Automagically

Often times, after creating an MDT or SCCM task sequence, you need to document it for yourself or your customers. Usually, this involves creating a table with the groups and steps, extracting their descriptions, identifying conditions and denoting the
Posted by DeploymentGuys | 8 Comments
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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
Wednesday, July 09, 2008 10:41 AM

MDT Script Explanations

I get quite a few emails from people asking if there is a help file that details all of the scripts that are supplied with Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT). The scripts form the engine of a deployment and can also help you to develop a framework for
Posted by DeploymentGuys | 1 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
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
Monday, March 31, 2008 11:10 AM

"Up-ping" the uptime of your Lite-Touch server

I like the lite-touch installation (LTI) feature of MDT, it think it's great and is very impressive as it allows clients to easily see the benefit that they will gain by using MDT to create and deploy their images. I can go on-site with a customer to
Posted by DeploymentGuys | 3 Comments
 
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