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Friday, January 11, 2008 1:36 PM

GUI Interface for USMT

Dan Cunningham has written a GUI wrapper for the User State Migration Tool (USMT) In Dan's interface, USMT provides the logic and mechanisms for the actual capture / restore process, but because USMT is entirely command-line, Dan decided to set about
Posted by ricsmith | 5 Comments
Thursday, November 29, 2007 6:50 PM

powercfg - Useful if you know the GUIDS!

So I have been doing some work with powercfg - and found it a very useful tool for scripting power management options during builds. This command utility is installed with Windows Vista and you can use it to control power settings and configure computers
Posted by ricsmith | 2 Comments
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 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
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Tuesday, July 17, 2007 2:30 PM

Useful Registry Changes During Build Creation/Image Deployment

As I have worked with different customers, a number of common requests often pop up for changes during build creation on deployment. For Windows XP deployment, I built up a library of VB scripts that carried out most of the customisations that I required
Posted by ricsmith | 4 Comments
 
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