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Duplicate Drivers Helper Script
Importing duplicate drivers into Configuration Manager has adequately been covered by Johan and William Bracken . The process that both outline in their...
USMT 4.0 in ConfigMgr Quick FAQ
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...
OSD Blogcast Series
Operating System Deployment (OSD) in Configuration Manager 2007 is the incontrovertible champion of deploying Windows. It simplifies, automates, and consolidates...
Sysprep Ad Infinitum
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...
Old Dog, New Tricks
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...
Suppress Plug and Play UI
Microsoft just released a new hotfix that allows you to suppress the plug and play UI in Windows XP and Server 2003: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/938596...
Posted: Jan 08 2009, 03:59 PM by jsandys | with no comments
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Quick Correction
While browsing the list of fixes included in Windows XP Service Pack 3, I discovered that the Uberbug fix described in KB931760 is actually included. ...
Posted: Aug 05 2008, 09:45 AM by jsandys | with no comments
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Master Deployment Images (Part 2)
Thick vs. Thin Images. The distinction between these two is somewhat subjective so I will start off with my simplistic and generic definitions. Both are...
Posted: Jun 16 2008, 05:57 PM by jsandys | with no comments
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Master Deployment Images (Part 1)
Often also called "Gold Images", these are the images of reference systems that are created for deployment to production systems. In this series...
Posted: Jun 12 2008, 05:56 PM by jsandys | with no comments
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Microsoft Deployment and Hyper-V
Now that I'm up and running with Hyper-V on my laptop, I decided to put together a LiteTouch demo using the latest Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT...
Posted: May 28 2008, 05:54 PM by jsandys | with no comments
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