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Wednesday, September 30, 2009 10:58 PM

MDT 2010 New Feature #20: General Purpose ConfigMgr wizard

In MDT 2008, we provided unknown computer support for ConfigMgr 2007, since it didn’t provide that capability – you first had to import new computers into the ConfigMgr database before you could install an OS, so MDT helped automate that process. When
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Tuesday, September 29, 2009 11:12 PM

ConfigMgr SP2 is speedy

People have made fun of ConfigMgr, and every version of SMS before that, for being “slow moving software”.  For those of you who try to deploy software to a machine and then wait for it to actually happen, you know what I mean: it was guaranteed
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Wednesday, September 23, 2009 7:58 AM

Setting up an image factory, part 1: Using MDT 2010 Lite Touch with SCVMM 2008 R2

Yes, I’ve been promising this blog posting for quite some time. And I’ve been working on this for quite some time, but kept getting distracted either by new releases (Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, MDT 2010, SCVMM 2008 R2, etc.) or by the addition
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Tuesday, September 22, 2009 12:14 AM

Running PowerShell scripts as part of a task sequence

Both MDT 2010 Lite Touch and ConfigMgr 2007 run the same task sequencer.  This task sequencer can run any command that you want, just specify the command line to use.  That’s the simple part – the harder part is figuring out what this command
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Wednesday, September 09, 2009 9:58 AM

Automatically update MDT 2010 boot images in WDS

You’ve probably gone through this cycle if you are using WDS to PXE boot computers to start bare metal Lite Touch deployments: Import new drivers or change bootstrap.ini. “Update deployment share” to generate new WIMs. Import new WIMs into WDS. Fortunately,
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Wednesday, September 09, 2009 9:29 AM

MDT 2010 New Feature #19: Improved Driver Management

I’ve been distracted while we worked on fixing the remaining bugs in MDT 2010, which was finally released today.  Now it’s time to get back to the discussion on new features in MDT 2010.  Next up on the list: improved driver management. This
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Wednesday, September 09, 2009 8:11 AM

Sorting the contents of an MDT 2010 deployment share

Quite some time ago (well over a year ago – time flies) I posted a script at http://blogs.technet.com/mniehaus/archive/2008/06/20/sorting-mdt-s-lists-of-applications-task-sequences-patches-etc.aspx that described how to sort the content in an MDT 2008
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Attachment(s): DeploymentShareSorter.zip
Wednesday, September 09, 2009 7:05 AM

Automating Long-Running MDT 2010 Tasks

There are a few operations in the MDT 2010 Deployment Workbench that can take a while.  We’ve done our best to optimize those processes, but in many cases they will still take a good amount of time to complete.  While you could certainly start
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Wednesday, September 09, 2009 1:34 AM

MDT 2010 has been released!

It’s been a long time coming, but we’re finally there:  MDT 2010 was released today.  See http://windowsteamblog.com/blogs/springboard/archive/2009/09/08/mdt-2010-is-released.aspx and http://blogs.technet.com/msdeployment/archive/2009/09/09/mdt-2010-is-released.aspx
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