April 2010 - Posts
summary of points taken from the keynote MMS 2010
I didn't get to MMS 2010, but I made sure to watch the keynote by Bob, and here are some fairly random points I've taken from the Keynote, if they don't make sense then apologies, I took these while watching it on my TV at home , so was typing and listening and tweeting at the same time please watch the keynote again @ http://www.studiosevent.com/newscenter/?id=mms The Cloud So far there's...
WEBCAST #2 - Dynamically Installing Applications in SCCM
hi all, here is webcast #2, Dynamically Installing Applications in SCCM . This webcast references the following post: Dynamic application Installation You can download the webcast here (73MB), please do me a favor and leave your feedback/suggestions/comments about the webcast. cheers niall
Network Printers not migrating in Offline Mode ? - Network printer mapping
You are using Offline mode in Windows PE and you notice it's not migrating your network printers . Don't worry, windows-noob is here to help, add the following XML file to your existing USMT 4 package. Please note: the following has been tested successfully with this guide . Please also note that this will migrate the network printers settings but not the printer drivers. Add the printers.xml...
Wallpaper not migrating in Offline Mode in SCCM via a Task Sequence ?
ok you are using Offline mode in Windows PE and you notice it's not migrating your wallpaper amongst other things . Well all hope is not lost, you can simply make some new XML files and add them to your existing USMT 4 package to migrate the additional stuff, in this example we will migrate the wallpaper. Please note: the following has been tested successfully with the guide here : Add the wallpaper...
Using Update Lists when deploying Monthly Updates
I've put together some posts over on windows-noob explaining how you can utilise Update Lists when deploying updates , there are more parts coming but I wanted to give you a look all the same, right now there are 3 parts (i'll update this post when there are more) and it should be enough to get even the most inexperienced patcher up to speed quickly, introducing the concept of using an Update...
Creating Standalone Media can produce an error if packages on the selected dp are not available at package source
I came across this while building a USB key to do a standalone deployment and the error produced wasn't so helpful so I thought i'd document how to resolve it. Error: Some required packages are not available in selected distribution points. Please select more distribution points. Ok, based on the error I tried to select all dp's but still it failed with the same message, meaning i could...
