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June 2008 - Posts

Friday, June 27, 2008 3:41 AM

Automatically installing Hyper-V RTM with MDT 2008

Unless you've been hiding under a rock, you probably noticed that the final RTM release of Hyper-V was made available today for Windows Server 2008. If you haven't tried Hyper-V yet, you've got to check it out - it's pretty impressive. Now that it is
Posted by mniehaus | 2 Comments
Monday, June 23, 2008 11:04 PM

It's official: Microsoft certifies that I can indeed configure Windows Vista

I recently participated in some discussions around Microsoft certifications, which reminded me of how long it has been since I've actually taken a certification exam. So I decided I would get back into it again, and decided to start with something I should
Posted by mniehaus | 4 Comments
Friday, June 20, 2008 9:55 PM

Sorting MDT's lists of applications, task sequences, patches, etc.

It seems to be a common request: You want the MDT Deployment Wizard to show items sorted alphabetically. So here's a simple script to do that: ' First parameter: XML file name ' Second parameter: name of the element to sort on, e.g. Name (case-sensitive)
Posted by mniehaus | 5 Comments
Monday, June 02, 2008 9:14 PM

New chipsets due soon from Intel

It's a Windows XP or Server 2003 image builder's nightmare: a new chipset that needs to be supported by your images. Why is it such a big deal? Because new chipsets mean new drivers, or at least new versions of existing drivers. And that includes new
Posted by mniehaus | 0 Comments
Monday, June 02, 2008 4:11 AM

Windows Vista driver management

In the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (Lite Touch and Zero Touch for SMS 2003), as well as in ConfigMgr 2007, drivers are added just-in-time to a Windows Vista image as it is being deployed (after it is placed on the disk, but before it boots for the first
Posted by mniehaus | 4 Comments
 
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