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Thursday, March 13, 2008 5:00 PM

The Last Post...!

I am sad to say that this is my last post to my personal blog site - but don't worry I've become part of something bigger and better. Myself and my fellow individual Microsoft Deployment blogger's have been thinking for a while that there are so many
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Monday, March 10, 2008 10:03 AM

Useful Script Number 1 - Start and Stop Services

So over the next few weeks, I will be presenting a mini series of scripts that may useful in your deployments. All of the scripts will be BDD/MDT specific - meaning that they can be run from the task sequencer and will have the correct format for using
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Monday, January 28, 2008 2:23 PM

The Deployment Guys blog has landed

What is The Deployment Guys blog? "The Deployment Guys" is a blog focused on deployment. "The Deployment Guys" is a combined effort. There are many different blogs out there including this one with useful deployment information. This
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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
Friday, November 23, 2007 1:21 PM

System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Toolkit released

For those that haven't seen it , we have just released the SCCM 2007 Toolkit for download. This excellent toolkit contains: Client Spy - A tool to help troubleshoot issues related to software distribution, inventory, and software metering on Configuration
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Friday, November 23, 2007 1:07 PM

Windows Vista Deployment Planning - Part 3

In Windows Vista Client Build and Deployment Process , I presented the diagram that I use when scoping deployment projects, so in this post I'll continue discussing the process in more detail - previous posts have covered Infrastructure Prerequisites
Posted by ricsmith | 1 Comments
Friday, November 23, 2007 11:44 AM

Moving from RIS to Windows Deployment Services (WDS)

I wanted to point you in the direction of a document that helps with moving from Remote Installation Services (RIS) to Windows Deployment Services (WDS) on Windows Server 2003. Many of the clients that I consult for are big RIS users, so this whitepaper
Posted by ricsmith | 0 Comments
Monday, November 12, 2007 11:00 AM

Microsoft Product Evals on Virtual Hard Disk

I am often asked why deployment is such a great place to work as a consultant and I usually answer by saying that deployment (both client and server) touches all aspects of the infrastructure and therefore you need a knowledge across many products. All
Posted by ricsmith | 0 Comments
Monday, November 12, 2007 10:47 AM

Microsoft Deployment Released

The first release of Microsoft Deployment is now available. This release marks the first in a series of three Microsoft Deployment releases planned between now and Summer 2008. It focuses on integration with new deployment features in Configuration Manager
Posted by ricsmith | 1 Comments
Thursday, October 25, 2007 9:06 AM

Microsoft Deployment RC1 Released

Business Desktop Deployment (BDD) is now Microsoft Deployment! The RC1 release and new name for the fourth generation deployment Solution Accelerator, Microsoft Deployment is available from today. Previous Beta releases have been using the code name "Deployment
Posted by ricsmith | 2 Comments
Tuesday, October 02, 2007 4:29 PM

Deployment 4 - Using Your BDD 2007 Task Sequences as Templates

So - Deployment 4 Beta 3 - very cool indeed...but I bet your thinking "how can I use the task sequences that I built in BDD 2007 as templates in Deployment 4 Beta 3?" - well that's a good question. Deployment 4 Beta 3 stores it's task sequence templates
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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
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Monday, September 17, 2007 9:39 AM

Deployment 4 Beta 3 Released

The BDD team have announced that Deployment 4 (the code name for the next version of Business Desktop Deployment (BDD) 2007) has been released as BETA 3 and unifies the tools and processes required for desktop and server deployment into a common deployment
Posted by ricsmith | 4 Comments
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