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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 | 4 Comments
Attachment(s): CUSTOM_USMT_Tracker.vbs
Thursday, March 26, 2009 3:06 PM

Sharing some simple HTAs

I was recently asked to share these files with a colleague, so I thought I would also share them with everyone via our blog. I developed them a while ago for a deployment project and I have since used them a few times more. Basically, they are 3 very
Posted by Daniel Oxley | 1 Comments
Attachment(s): SimpleHTAs.zip
Wednesday, October 15, 2008 9:27 PM

Porting Configuration Manager Task Sequences to a Different Environment

Many scenarios arise in which you may want to port your task sequence from one environment to another. Common scenarios include promotion through Lab and QA environments and migration between disconnected hierarchies. Configuration Manager allows you
Posted by DeploymentGuys | 1 Comments
Attachment(s): TSPromoScripts.zip
Friday, August 29, 2008 4:31 PM

Logging All the Configuration Manager Task Sequence Variables

When debugging a MDT based Configuration Manager Task Sequence, it is often helpful to know what certain built-in Configuration Manager variables are set to during a step in the task sequence. For instance, you may want to see if _SMSTSLastActionRetCode
Posted by DeploymentGuys | 5 Comments
Attachment(s): OutputTSVariables.zip
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 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
 
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