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OSD – In MDT 2013 Update 2–Sometimes “WimSplit” works and sometimes not
and i do not like “sometimes”. The need for WimSplit is big, the most common reason is to install Windows on a UEFI based machine. In that case the boot media must be FAT32 and a single file cannot be...
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OSD – Export drivers using a task sequence in Lite Touch and some PowerShell
Yesterday i did a demo of a Task Sequence I use to extract drivers from a computer that already have all drivers correctly installed, could be a system that I need to reinstall, or a new machine with...
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OSD – The future of MDT is going to be PowerShell!
At MMSmoa today, Michael Niehaus presented a new approach for MDT, the shift from VBscript to PowerShell. They idea is to get the code up on GitHub. The basic engine and framework will be done, but it...
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OSD – BIOS upgrade during OS Deployment in MDT/ConfigMgr (v3)
This is the third version of the script solution; it is very simple. You detect make/model in any way you would like to, create a rule based on BIOS version, if the rule match, nothing happens,...
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OSD – Microsoft Deployment Toolkit Build 8443 is out
Today a new version of MDT was released, the main reason is Quality Updates and full support for Windows Server 2016 as well as Windows 10 1607. It does require ADK 1607. If you are using MDT in your...
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OSD – Add information to the Computer during OSD using a Custom Tattoo Step
When using an MDT (integrated in ConfigMgr or standalone) there is a step called Tattoo, this step will write information to the registry as well as to the WMI repository. Let us see what it looks by...
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OSD – Conditional disk layout (based on model)
A while back I did an online training for Penton Tech https://education.pentontechnology.com/courses/deploying-windows-10-os-using-microsoft-deployment-toolkit on Windows 10 OS Deployment. One of the...
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PowerShell is King – Building a Reference Image Factory (v 3.2)
The Image Factory has been re-worked and updated. It also has moved to GitHub https://github.com/DeploymentBunny/ImageFactoryV3ForHyper-V/ Concept and flow The idea is the same, we use MDT, create...
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OSD – Adding Description to the WIM file during Build and Capture
The default capture function in MDT does not add any description. It is not needed, but can be added by modifying ZTIBackup.wsf. In this case I added the Task Sequence Name, but you can add other...
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Image Factory 4.0 is available for download
So the IMF 4.0 is what we use to create reference images automatically. IMF is using Microsoft Deployment Toolkit and Windows ADK. It has been around for a while and we have deployed it at many...
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