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Importing duplicate drivers into Configuration Manager has adequately been covered by Johan and William Bracken . The process that both outline in their...
Q. What’s new in USMT 4? A. Easier to reference a link on this one: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd560752(WS.10).aspx . Here’s a quick list...
So COM is a huge topic that I can't even imagine scratching the surface of in a single post; MSDN and CodeProject are two great places to learn about...
Operating System Deployment (OSD) in Configuration Manager 2007 is the incontrovertible champion of deploying Windows. It simplifies, automates, and consolidates...
I was at a customer this week doing a one-day, whirlwind tour of Operating System Deployment (OSD) in ConfigMgr. They were specifically interested in server...
Working with a customer recently, they had an issue using SAN attached disks during Operating System Deployment. They could successfully create and format...
If you try the technique below on an install of Windows Server 2003 with Service Pack 2 (sp2), it fails. I don’t remember the exact error, but it translates...
I just stumbled on this today; i.e., I can’t take credit for all of it ( http://develnet.blogspot.com/2008_09_01_archive.html ). It is a great way to restart...
Just thought I’d document the steps taken at a recent customer engagement for deploying Windows Server 2003 with the R2 bits in the image. 1. Copy...
Well, I’m not actually that old, but I did learn a new trick today. I’ve been fighting the drivers is an OSD XP deployment task sequence for an HP dc5800...
As a discovery exercise, I created a small, stand-alone app using AutoIT that displays a dialog box with the current value of the environment variables...
I’ve updated my OSDAppChooser app to include a requested feature. Basically, someone requested the ability to have all applications chosen to be installed...
A new feature of Configuration Manager 2007 R2 is the ability to define a Task Sequence Variable on a Collection or individual resource without a value...
At the last three Configuration Manager Deployments that I’ve done, the customers have each asked the same question about OSD: is there a way to interactively...
I just hit an interesting snag when deploying XP using source files and a capture and create task sequence. In the process of customizing the task sequence...