Why do we want to do this ? We've all seen OSD fail for some reason or another, wouldn't it be nice to have a set of tools included in your boot.wim file to help you make the job of troubleshooting easier, yes it would. In this example, we will use some 3rd party shareware to allow us to add new abilities to our boot image using easy to type commands which you (or the Technician) can tell the...

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Let's say you want to copy some files from a package to your target computer In the following Task Sequence, copying files from packages - access.xml we reference a package (called copy_files ) which contains some blank files and folders We have two groups in this simple task sequence, the first group copies all files from a package to a directory on your target computer (the computer that you...

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I just wanted to post a quick note to say how happy I am to have received a 2010 Microsoft® MVP Award (SCCM), it was a very pleasant surprise as I read the email on my phone while stuck in traffic on my way home from work. I must have been the one and only person in that traffic jam that was happy and boy was I happy :-) I want to thank a few people for guiding me on the right path, in particular Aidan...

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