Welcome to TechNet Blogs Sign in | Join | Help

Browse by Tags

All Tags » Build Process » BDD2007   (RSS)
Tuesday, September 25, 2007 2:39 PM

Disabling the Network Location Prompt

Over the past few months, many of the clients I have been working with have started deploying Windows Vista into their environment. One thing that commonly crops up is that the Windows Vista Network Location prompt fires up on all newly built machines
Posted by ricsmith | 2 Comments
Tuesday, September 18, 2007 10:44 AM

New Deployment Forum Site...

Deployment Forum is a new community Web site devoted to IT professionals deploying Windows. Myself and fellow MCS blogger Ben Hunter, as well as MCS architect Steve Campbell have taken up residency in the MVP section with a selection of the industry's
Posted by ricsmith | 0 Comments
Wednesday, August 15, 2007 1:15 PM

How drivers are added to Windows PE and Windows Vista during an unattended installation

My MCS colleague and top deployment gent - Mark Aslett has put together a handy process list for how device drivers are added to Windows PE and Windows Vista during deployment. The example below assumes than an unattend.xml file is being used to specify
Posted by ricsmith | 2 Comments
Thursday, August 02, 2007 2:11 PM

General Purpose CustomSettings.ini

One thing that seems to stump a number of people with BDD 2007 is using the CustomSettings.ini file (accessible via the Rules tab) to automate the deployment wizards. The usual issues are around differing language settings for Windows XP and Windows Vista,
Posted by ricsmith | 0 Comments
Wednesday, August 01, 2007 3:42 PM

WMI Tags for Task Sequencer Logic

One of the things that I am often required to obtain for customers are certain WMI tags so that we can write task sequence IF statements and provide the build process with some logic. Gathering these WMI tags can be tricky, so we put together a VB Script
Posted by ricsmith | 0 Comments
Monday, July 23, 2007 12:30 AM

Windows Vista Deployment Planning - Part 1

As promises - I will start to deep dive into the areas that I consider when working with clients on Windows Vista deployment projects...in Windows Vista Client Build and Deployment Process , I presented the diagram used when scoping deployment projects,
Posted by ricsmith | 1 Comments
Sunday, July 22, 2007 10:37 PM

Multiple Partitions in BDD 2007

Have had a couple of requests to cover creating multiple partitions using BDD 2007. By default BDD 2007 creates a single partition (C:) that then builds out with your required OS and applications via the task sequencer. The partition and format information
Posted by ricsmith | 6 Comments
 
Page view tracker