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Building A Windows XP Reference Image, Typical Customizations Examples
Nick Moseley has a nice post on some typical XP customizations that are done to your reference XP Image.  He has some examples of system settings...
Uninstalling iSeries Legacy Client Access
If you have legacy iSeries Windows Client Access and need to do an upgrade to the latest 6.1 version, it can be a little challenging to get the old version...
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 This method has been superseded by a much...
Configuration Manager 2007 R2/SP2 Driver Management
The post will cover the most common methods that I know of for driver management in ConfigMgr.  For once I won’t be talking about MDT integration...
Scheduling A Weekly Defrag Through SMS/ConfigMgr
Without any third party tools here is a simple way to create a weekly defrag task on your client workstations.  This is specific for Windows XP, although...
ConfigMgr USMT Migration Bug
Known bug that has been talked about on the lists quite a bit.  Looks like the SCCM team blog posted something on it finally: http://blogs.technet...
Custom Front End – Name and OU prompt - ConfigMgr/MDT 2010/Pre-execution hook
This information is provided as-is… proceed at your own risk… Provided with MDT 2010 SCCM integration is a pre-execution hook that allows for a computer...
Windows XP – Sysprep – Default profile settings
If you want your administrator profile on the reference image to apply as the default profile for all users, you will need to set the “UpdateServerProfileDirectory...
Process Monitoring Tools
Someone on the myitforum list mentioned this tool (YAPM) so i decided to check it out.  It’s pretty neat and feature packed. Here is the link to site...
SMS 2003 OSD from RIS/WDS
The information provided below is provided “as-is”.  Proceed at your own risk. Initial Configuration Steps I will not go into detail on these and...
Combining multiple images into a single .wim file – Part 2 – Task Sequence
The below information is provided as is, please test and realize you are using this information at your own risk. This process sadly won’t work with SMS...
Combining multiple images into a single .wim file – Part 1 – Capturing the Image(s)
This information is provided as is, this can be a complicated process, so you do so at your own risk. I am also unsure of what level of “supported-ness...
Unraveling the mystery of txtsetup.sif modifications
The below post is a combination of information i have learned as well as information i have found on the internet. I posted some "credits" at...
NT Authority Context Command Prompt - Troubleshooting software install rights
Sometimes it is useful to create a command prompt under the NT Authority/System context to test things. Most often this is a great way to test if an application...
Dealing with Laptop Standby Power Mode – Part 2
This is a continuation of Part 1 where i discussed a script to configure the network adapters to allow for WOL while in stand-by mode or hibernation mode...
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