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Incorporating KB2028749 Into Your Microsoft Deployment Toolkit Reference...
My friend Chris Nackers have a great post on an old nasty issue, the basic issue is that when you deploy Win 7 machines it will end with this: Here is the...
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Step-by-Step: Upgrading BIOS during LiteTouch Deployment, for Dell,...
Ok, so here is the short( not really sure this is going to be short by the way, well nothing is perfect) story, once again a customer (Thank you Bill for letting me test fun stuff in your environment!)...
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Just for fun: – The MDT team has a humor
There is a step in the Task Sequence that checks bios, but most people never check what really happens behind the scenes. Well it checks the BIOS, right. But my best guess is that you did not get this...
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Things you should know: – Undocumented Properties in MDT 2010 Update 1
Once again, at 33000 feet over the Atlantic Ocean on my way back from TechEd NA in Atlanta I started to think about all the different properties in MDT 2010 Update 1 that I use which are not really...
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Modifying the Lite Touch Wizard in MDT 2010 – Sample 2
This is the second part of a story around the MDT Wizard and the Wizard editor and the saga continues, but this time it’s going to be a bit more tricky since we need to add information to the wizard...
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Nice to know: – Blocking OS install on unsupported models in Microsoft...
A customer asked me: - Is it possible to block an attempt to upgrade, refresh or install the Operating System if that model is not “certified? – Yes, we can set the OSinstall property to N based on...
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Device drivers can make you feel “differently”…
Today’s story is about a driver, a driver that did not really wanted to be installed. I’ll guess you been in that situation before and I will give a tip on how to make those drives install like a...
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Online Session – Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2012
Yes, it is true, there will be a new version of MDT This session will cover the changes and updates we have in MDT 2012 BETA 1. A session full of demos. We will spend time on both the new features but...
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Modelalias User Exit for Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010/2012
No, I did not create this script, I think this has been around for a long time, somewhere around 2007 and correct me if I’m wrong but I believe it was Ben Hunter that started this back in the days. I...
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Nice to Know: Remove the Windows 8 Animation during OS Deployment
Don’t get me wrong, I like to watch a god movie, it’s just that I don’t like to see the same movie twice. In Windows 8 there is a movie that is played for the first time logon and there is a Group...
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Nice to Know – Dumping MDT Monitor data to a Webpage (using PowerShell)
(update – http://deploymentbunny.com/2013/12/13/nice-to-know-dumping-mdt-monitor-data-to-a-webpage-using-powershell-update/) A customer asked me –Could you create like a web page that shows the same...
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Nice to Know – Dumping MDT Monitor data to a Webpage (using PowerShell) – Update
A couple of days ago I published a simple PowerShell script that dumps the MDT monitoring data and convert it into a web page, the interest for that has been huge. The customer came back to me with one...
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PowerShell is King – Create a webpage containing LTI/ZTI Deployment issues...
Knowing is better than guessing, that is an indisputable fact as far as I know and since we try to automate more and more (someone wrote –automating the world, line by line and that is so darn correct)...
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OS Deployment – Out Of Band install of Windows Server 2012 R2 Using MDT,WDS...
PowerShell is amazing, it is now possible to do all those things I know would be possible, but did require compiled code or time I don’t have (Still working as an consultant in the real world you...
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PowerShell is King – Building a Reference Image Factory
In the world of deployment a reference image is where all begins, basically we take the ISO/WIM from the vendor, install it, tweak it, patch it and on the other side we now a have a customized...
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OS Deployment – Out Of Band install of Windows Server 2012 R2 Using MDT,WDS...
This is post refers to this post http://deploymentbunny.com/2013/12/29/os-deployment-oob-install-of-windows-server-2012-r2-using-mdtwds-and-powershell/ Out of Band or Bare Metal installation requires...
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Nice to Know – Switch from ImageX to DISM in MDT
Be default the capture process in MDT 2013 uses ImageX to capture the image, there is nothing wrong with that, well, it takes time since Imagex takes about 15 minutes or more just to scan the file...
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Back to Basic – CustomSettings.ini – Sample 3 and a bunch more
Customsettings.ini is one of those text files in MDT/ConfigMgr that has a major impact on the solution, badly written the solution is a pain in the… correctly written and it works like magic… A while...
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Nice to Know – Get rid of all junk before Sysprep and Capture when creating a...
When you create a reference Image it will in most cases it will be updated with patches and some more patches and then some… That will make the image bigger and therefore the deployment of that image...
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OSD–Using ZTISendMail to send email in a LTI/ZTI task sequence
Long time ago I had a need to send email an email in the end of the task sequence to notify the technician that the OS deployment was done, therefore creating a script which then ended up as a blog...
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