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Friday, November 20, 2009 1:51 PM

Windows 7 RTM Issue with Group Policy Enforced Wallpaper

I was asked by our Support folks to let you know about an issue that effects Windows 7 when you try to set the desktop wallpaper through Group Policy. I am blogging this on the Deployment Guys blog because the issue can be avoided by a configuration item
Posted by DeploymentGuys | 0 Comments
Friday, October 30, 2009 8:00 PM

Happy Halloween - Windows 7 style

Since my latest Windows 7 “project” turned out so well, I though I’d share it with you. Yes, I did carve this intricate design myself.  :-)   Have a Happy Halloween from the Deployment Guys.   Disclaimer: The information on this site is
Posted by DeploymentGuys | 3 Comments
Thursday, October 29, 2009 3:36 PM

Configuring Default User Settings – Full Update for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2

I have written several posts on this topic before. However, changes were made to Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 that warrant a full revisit of this topic. This post can can also be also be found on the Windows Springboard Series blog here . Anyone
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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
Monday, October 19, 2009 9:42 AM

Essential Guide for Deploying Windows 7

There is a great eBook that has just been released on the Microsoft website that gives a good insight into many of the technologies and concepts that you’ll need to consider and address for when you start working on your Windows 7 deployment, and the
Posted by Daniel Oxley | 1 Comments
Wednesday, October 14, 2009 1:53 PM

Reporting on Office 2007 Customisation Settings

So I don’t know about you but I have a very distinct love hate relationship with the Office 2007 Customisation Wizard. I just love the amount of tweaking I can do and I just hate the fact that I can tweak so much. In past I have found that tweaking as
Posted by DeploymentGuys | 3 Comments
Friday, October 09, 2009 8:39 PM

How to configure BitLocker on additional drives in a MDT 2010 deployment.

MDT 2010 supports encrypting disks with BitLocker during deployment.  This is configured in the Task Sequence using the following: This works for the Operating System Drive. If configuration of Bitlocker is tried on additional drives, the deployment
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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 09, 2009 8:54 AM

MDT 2010 is Released to the Web!

Yesterday the MDT team in Redmond released MDT2010 to the web for download. There is a blog posting with the location for download here: http://blogs.technet.com/msdeployment/archive/2009/09/09/mdt-2010-is-released.aspx Or you can go to the following
Posted by DeploymentGuys | 7 Comments
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, August 27, 2009 9:50 AM

Windows 7 WAIK and Custom Images

Working on customer site recently I was perplexed by why I could not create an unattend.xml file from within MDT 2010 for my custom Windows 7 x32 image. So I did some digging and finally located a program manager who could explain to me what was going
Posted by DeploymentGuys | 11 Comments
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
Monday, August 10, 2009 7:32 PM

Clustering the MDT Database

Sometimes for availability purposes, it is necessary to ensure the MDT database is clustered to allow failover in case of a server failure or maintenance event. There are a few things that you want to keep in mind when you decide to do this: 1. The SQL
Posted by DeploymentGuys | 0 Comments
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