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MDT 2012 Beta 2–User-Driven Installation (UDI) Version 2

MDT 2012 Beta 2–User-Driven Installation (UDI) Version 2 - Chris's Blog - Just weedin around Microsoft - Site Home - TechNet Blogs Great introduction...

Posted: Nov 16 2011, 03:05 PM by cnackers | with no comments

Filed under: Microsoft Deployment Toolkit, ConfigMgr, UDI, CM2012, MDT 2012

MDT 2012 Beta 2 Released

MDT 2012 Beta 2 Released - The Deployment Guys - Site Home - TechNet Blogs The latest version of MDT is now available on Connect ( Join the MDT...

Posted: Nov 11 2011, 07:59 AM by cnackers | with no comments

Filed under: Microsoft Deployment Toolkit, TechNet, MDT 2012

Microsoft Deployment Toolkit–Hydrating ConfigMgr Secondary Sites with MDT Lite-Touch

The following solution(s) are provided as-is without any warranty, confers no rights and is not supported by the Author(s). Use at your own risk. Installing...

Posted: Sep 09 2011, 10:28 PM by cnackers | with no comments

Filed under: Scripting, Solution Accelerators, Microsoft Deployment Toolkit, MDT 2010, Install Guides, Hydration

Getting more into DVD Media Based Deployment

Great post over on The Deployment Guys . Read the full post here. One of the great features of MDT 2010/2012 is the ability to create a media based...

Posted: Sep 06 2011, 07:58 AM by cnackers | with no comments

Filed under: Microsoft Deployment Toolkit, MDT 2010, TechNet, MDT 2012

Querying MDT/ConfigMgr Logs in MDT Scripts

Michael Murgolo has a nice post over on The Deployment Guys Blog. Read the full post here. The Lite Touch Deployment Process end in a Summary Wizard pane...

Posted: Aug 30 2011, 10:22 AM by cnackers | with no comments

Filed under: Scripting, Microsoft Deployment Toolkit, ConfigMgr, DeploymentGuys

ConfigMgr–Building A Reference Image-Installing Hotfixes/Updates Offline

If you build your reference image using Microsoft Deployment Toolkit Lite-Touch, it’s fairly easy to incorporate OS level hotfixes and updates offline...

Posted: Aug 19 2011, 05:00 PM by cnackers | with no comments

Filed under: Operating System Deployment, Systems Management, SCCM, Microsoft Deployment Toolkit, Task Sequence, ConfigMgr, KB's

ConfigMgr–Update Driver Source Paths Script

I was recently at a client and we were condensing down their hierarchy and retiring a few servers. After we had replicated all the packages between the...

Posted: Aug 12 2011, 09:22 AM by cnackers | with 1 comment(s)

Filed under: Scripting, SCCM, Microsoft Deployment Toolkit, ConfigMgr

Setting Environment Variables in a Task Sequence

Michael Murgolo has a nice post over on The Deployment Guys blog. Read the full and download the example script here. Some tools require setting an environment...

Posted: Aug 03 2011, 03:45 PM by cnackers | with no comments

Filed under: Scripting, Operating System Deployment, SCCM, Microsoft Deployment Toolkit, ConfigMgr, TechNet

Finding and adding only the correct device driver to the Boot image

Michael Petersen has a nice new post up on the CoreTech Blog that is something I talk repeatedly about with clients. Only injecting the drivers you...

Posted: Jul 25 2011, 10:37 AM by cnackers | with no comments

Filed under: Operating System Deployment, Driver Management, Microsoft Deployment Toolkit, ConfigMgr, WinPE

Software Assurance Pays Off – Remote Connection to WinPE during MDT/SCCM deployments

Johan Arwidmark has a new post up talking about integrating Dart 7 (beta) into your WinPE images to allow remote connectivity. Read the full post...

Posted: Jul 25 2011, 10:32 AM by cnackers | with no comments

Filed under: Scripting, Operating System Deployment, Tools, Solution Accelerators, Systems Management, SCCM, Microsoft Deployment Toolkit, MDT 2010, ConfigMgr, MDOP, MDT 2012, Dart

Message Box Script for Lite Touch Task Sequences

Michael Murgolo has a new post over on The Deployment Guys Blog. Read the full post here. I recently had the need to pop up a message box duing an LTI...

Posted: Jul 25 2011, 10:04 AM by cnackers | with no comments

Filed under: Scripting, Operating System Deployment, Systems Management, Microsoft Deployment Toolkit, Task Sequence, TechNet

MDT 2010 – Inside the Install Roles and Features action

Johan Arwidmark has a new post discussing the Role and Features action inside MDT. Read the full post here. One of the most powerful features in MDT is...

Posted: Jul 13 2011, 04:35 PM by cnackers | with no comments

Filed under: Operating System Deployment, Solution Accelerators, Microsoft, Systems Management, SCCM, Microsoft Deployment Toolkit, MDT 2010, ConfigMgr

Advanced Format Hard Drives–Automatically Patching WinPE 3.0 With The Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010 (MDT)

In order to support the new 4k advanced format drives, we need to apply a hotfix to WinPE 3.0. First, download the hotfix (KB982018) here. Once you...

Posted: Jun 15 2011, 03:17 PM by cnackers | with no comments

Filed under: Operating System Deployment, Solution Accelerators, Microsoft, Microsoft Deployment Toolkit, MDT 2010, KB's, WinPE, WAIK, Advanced Format Drives

Back To Basics 5: Restricting Task Sequence Usage

Great post over on The Deployment Guys by Daniel Oxley. Read the full post here. This post was contributed by Daniel Oxley, a Senior Consultant with Microsoft...

Posted: Jun 13 2011, 01:21 PM by cnackers | with no comments

Filed under: Operating System Deployment, Microsoft, Systems Management, Microsoft Deployment Toolkit, Task Sequence, TechNet

MDT 2012 and ConfigMgr 2012: Operating System Deployment Updates (Beta Overviews)

Here is a presentation I’ve done for a few user groups covering MDT 2012 and ConfigMgr 2012 Beta products. This goes over the OSD changes in both...

Posted: Jun 13 2011, 09:11 AM by cnackers | with no comments

Filed under: Operating System Deployment, Solution Accelerators, Microsoft, Microsoft Deployment Toolkit, ConfigMgr, CM2012, MDT 2012, Presentations

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