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Troubleshooting Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010 Lite Touch
Join Andreas Hammarskjold and Johan Arwidmark, two of the world’s foremost deployment experts in a dazzling session that gives you the tools and processes...
Microsoft Deployment Toolkit–Controlling The Task Sequence Progress Bar And Individual Step Status
Huge thanks to Keith Garner for answering my questions and showing me this function. Thanks Keith! I was recently working with a client that had some custom...
Copy Content to Target Computers Using $OEM$ Folders
MDT 2010 supports using legacy $OEM$ folders to organize and copy supplemental files to the target computers. However, when deploying Windows Vista or...
Show User Notification from Package or Task-Sequence
Read the article here. Credit to Roger Zander for this nifty trick. A way to show a simple user notification message from a Task-Sequence or a Software...
Microsoft Deployment Toolkit Lite Touch (LTI) - “The Task Sequence Has Been Suspended”
This is basically the result of the the system coming up in an OS it didn’t expect. For example WinPE instead of XP/Win7. Commonly, you might be testing...
Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010 Lite Touch Providing a Wizard To Select The Deployment Share
There is actually a little known built-in feature for prompting you with a wizard screen to select the Deployment Share you want to connect to. There is...
Customizing the MDT Task Sequence Editor
Great article over on The Deployment Guys Blog that talks about customizing the MDT Task Sequence Editor to allow your own custom actions as menu options...
Using Command Shell Scripts with Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT)
Michael Murgolo has a nice post over on The Deployment Guys Blog about using command shell (CMD) scripts within MDT.  “OK… I’ll admit it, I like to...
Kicking It Old School – Deploying WinXP using USMT3 with ConfigMgr without using the SMP
The information provided in this post is “as-is”, use at your own risk and please be sure to test appropriately! This method has been superseded by a much...
Driver Management - Good Info To Read
If you attended the Driver Management session by Michael Niehaus and Johan @ MMS, or even if you didn't have that opportunity, I would recommend you...
Making Sure A ConfigMgr Task Sequence Has All The Packages It Needs To Continue Part 2
I had previously posted on a blog where Michael Niehaus created a powershell script to check for the necessary packages for a task sequence. Jason Schefelmaer...
Hiding Cscript Window in Custom Boot Wizards
If you have ever wanted to hide that black cscript window in your custom wizard or pre-execution hook, read more here.   Nice post showing you how...
MDT 2010 – Testing customsettings.ini rules
There is a very slick/simple way to process your customsettings.ini to see if your rules are processing the results you want. All you need to do is create...
ConfigMgr/MDT 2010 “Install Software” Task Sequence Step
There appears to be an issue in the Install Software step if you are setting your packages dynamically through the database or customsettings.ini. ...
Microsoft Deployment Toolkit – Tattoo Information
Another great feature of MDT integration with SMS/ConfigMgr is the information that is tattoo’d into the system during deployment. Through the use of a...
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