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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, January 14, 2009 7:38 AM

USMT Error Codes

I was recently configuring the User State Migration Tool for a customer’s MDT server when, during the testing phase, the USMT began failing with an error code (‘return code’ or ‘rc’ when you read the MDT log files).  I searched the USMT documentation
Posted by DeploymentGuys | 7 Comments
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
Tuesday, August 26, 2008 8:39 AM

Non-shrinking WIM files

If you make regular changes to your WIM files with the use of the /MOUNTRW or /DELETE switches of IMAGEX, then you may have noticed that your WIM files do not shrink in size after you commit the changes back to the file.  You could delete 500mb of
Posted by DeploymentGuys | 7 Comments
Monday, May 19, 2008 5:03 PM

Managing Windows Updates

When creating a new operating system WIM image with MDT, one of the things that you should always examine is the new updates for Windows that you will include; my recommendation has always been to make sure that the image is as up-to-date as possible
Posted by DeploymentGuys | 19 Comments
 
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