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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 | 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, 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,
Posted by Daniel Oxley | 2 Comments
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Attachment(s): 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, 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
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
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 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
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
 
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