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Combining multiple images into a single .wim file – Part 1 – Capturing the Image(s)

This information is provided as is, this can be a complicated process, so you do so at your own risk. I am also unsure of what level of “supported-ness” (i think i made that word up) this has by Microsoft, so again, you do so at your own risk. :) Now that we’ve stated the usual stuff, lets begin…. Here...

Posted to Chris Nackers Blog (Weblog) by cnackers on 05-29-2009
Filed under: SMS 2003, Operating System Deployment, General, MDT 2008, Solution Accelerators, Microsoft, Windows XP, Windows PE, Systems Management, SCCM, Imaging
Combining multiple images into a single .wim file – Part 1 – Capturing the Image(s)

This information is provided as is, this can be a complicated process, so you do so at your own risk. I am also unsure of what level of “supported-ness” (i think i made that word up) this has by Microsoft, so again, you do so at your own risk. :) Now that we’ve stated the usual stuff, lets begin…. Here...

Posted to Chris Nackers Blog (Weblog) by cnackers on 05-29-2009
Filed under: SMS 2003, Operating System Deployment, General, MDT 2008, Solution Accelerators, Microsoft, Windows XP, Windows PE, Systems Management, SCCM, Imaging
Windows XP – Sysprep – Default profile settings

If you want your administrator profile on the reference image to apply as the default profile for all users, you will need to set the “UpdateServerProfileDirectory” command in your sysprep file before you capture the image. Microsoft has changed this a back and forth between the various service pack...

Posted to Chris Nackers Blog (Weblog) by cnackers on 08-21-2009
Filed under: Operating System Deployment, General, Microsoft, Windows XP, Systems Management, Imaging, Sysprep
Custom Front End – Name and OU prompt - ConfigMgr/MDT 2010/Pre-execution hook

This information is provided as-is… proceed at your own risk… Provided with MDT 2010 SCCM integration is a pre-execution hook that allows for a computer name prompt prior to execution of the task sequence. This works great for bare metal installs and avoids the MININT% name. An additional...

Posted to Chris Nackers Blog (Weblog) by cnackers on 10-15-2009
Filed under: Operating System Deployment, Solution Accelerators, Microsoft, Windows XP, Systems Management, SCCM, Imaging, Windows 7, MDT 2010, Active Directory, Task Sequence
ConfigMgr and/or MDT – Useful WMI Queries and WMI Tools

Wanted to post a blog entry with typical WMI “backend” queries for limiting Task Sequence steps. My intention is to update this as I find more queries that we use. I’m going under the assumption that you know where to use this query, so I won’t be showing any examples or screenshots or instructions on...

Posted to Chris Nackers Blog (Weblog) by cnackers on 12-16-2009
Filed under: SMS 2003, MDT 2008, Microsoft, Driver Management, Systems Management, Queries, SCCM, Imaging, Microsoft Deployment Toolkit, MDT 2010, Task Sequence, WMI
ConfigMgr and/or MDT – Useful WMI Queries and WMI Tools

Wanted to post a blog entry with typical WMI “backend” queries for limiting Task Sequence steps. My intention is to update this as I find more queries that we use. I’m going under the assumption that you know where to use this query, so I won’t be showing any examples or screenshots or instructions on...

Posted to Chris Nackers Blog (Weblog) by cnackers on 12-16-2009
Filed under: SMS 2003, MDT 2008, Microsoft, Driver Management, Systems Management, Queries, SCCM, Imaging, Microsoft Deployment Toolkit, MDT 2010, Task Sequence, WMI
Custom Front End – Name and OU prompt - ConfigMgr/MDT 2010/Pre-execution hook

This information is provided as-is… proceed at your own risk… Provided with MDT 2010 SCCM integration is a pre-execution hook that allows for a computer name prompt prior to execution of the task sequence. This works great for bare metal installs and avoids the MININT% name. An additional...

Posted to Chris Nackers Blog (Weblog) by cnackers on 10-15-2009
Filed under: Operating System Deployment, Solution Accelerators, Microsoft, Windows XP, Systems Management, SCCM, Imaging, Windows 7, MDT 2010, Active Directory, Task Sequence
Windows XP – Sysprep – Default profile settings

If you want your administrator profile on the reference image to apply as the default profile for all users, you will need to set the “UpdateServerProfileDirectory” command in your sysprep file before you capture the image. Microsoft has changed this a back and forth between the various service pack...

Posted to Chris Nackers Blog (Weblog) by cnackers on 08-21-2009
Filed under: Operating System Deployment, General, Microsoft, Windows XP, Systems Management, Imaging, Sysprep
Combining multiple images into a single .wim file – Part 1 – Capturing the Image(s)

This information is provided as is, this can be a complicated process, so you do so at your own risk. I am also unsure of what level of “supported-ness” (i think i made that word up) this has by Microsoft, so again, you do so at your own risk. :) Now that we’ve stated the usual stuff, lets begin…. Here...

Posted to Chris Nackers Blog (Weblog) by cnackers on 05-29-2009
Filed under: SMS 2003, Operating System Deployment, General, MDT 2008, Solution Accelerators, Microsoft, Windows XP, Windows PE, Systems Management, SCCM, Imaging
MDT and Single-Instance Storage

Article in the January 2010 issue of Technet: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/ee914607.aspx

Posted to Chris Nackers Blog (Weblog) by cnackers on 02-04-2010
Filed under: Microsoft, Imaging, Microsoft Deployment Toolkit, MDT 2010, TechNet

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