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MDT Web FrontEnd Beta 2.0.2 published – Call for Help !

I just released Beta 2.0.2 of the MDT Web FrontEnd . As promised, I will keep on publishing new releases in short cycles, so you can have bug fixes and new features as soon as possible. This it going to be a very important update and I urge you to download Version 2.0.2 as soon as possible, as it contains a whole bunch of fixes. Especially the MDT Database configuration, ConfigMgr Discovery and Active Directory Site discovery were pretty flaky if using an Internet Explorer < 9. IE9 and FireFox...  ... Read the full post or  be the first to comment. Filed under: Microsoft Deployment, SCCM, Frontend, MDT 2012

PrettyGoodFrontEndClone

I’ve always been a big fan of the PrettyGoodFrontEnd written by Johan Arwidmark . Originally written as a FrontEnd for ZTI deployments on SMS with BDD 2007 it has recently been updated for ConfigMgr (SCCM) 2007 Deployments with MDT 2010 integration. Similar to the Custom Boot Wizard I’ve mentioned already a couple times on this blog, Johan is now also using webservices to query the necessary information from MDT, Active Directory and ConfigMgr (SCCM). For this he wrote his own webservice reduced...  ... Read the full post or  be the first to comment. Filed under: Custom Scripts, Webservice, Microsoft Deployment, SCCM, Boot Wizard, MDT, Frontend

MDT Web FrontEnd – How To handle SCCM Packages

MDT has a built-in feature that allows you to install packages from SCCM on the fly during the Deployment process. More or less similar to installing applications from MDT . While this is great for dynamic deployments, it’s not that easy to use as you have to define the package with it’s package id and the program of the package to be run. A typical entry looks like MKO0023E:MDT – Install Microsoft Office 2007 I`m pretty sure that most of you that used this feature have spent already some time on...  ... Read the full post or  be the first to comment. Filed under: SCCM, MDT, Frontend, How To

Using a custom Boot wizard to boot known and unknown computers in SCCM and choose a Task Sequence to run – Step by Step

In some recent posts I wrote about how to create a custom boot wizard. During these posts I used an example which would be able to boot any known and unknown computer from SCCM, reads a list of available Collections having an OSD Task Sequence advertised to choose from, then drop the computer into one of these collections on the fly and wait until the Advertisement would be available for the computer before handing over to the Task Sequence engine which would then query the SCCM Server for an advertised...  ... Read the full post or  be the first to comment. Filed under: Webservice, Microsoft Deployment, SCCM, Boot Wizard, MDT, Frontend