April 5, 2012 in MDT, MDT 2010, MDT 2012, Microsoft Deployment Toolkit, Operating System Deployment, OS Deployment, OSD, PowerShell, Scripting, VBScript, Windows 7, WinPE by Jase T. Wolfe
Often in desktop deployment, many environmental conditions are assumed and taken for granted. This can result in a great deal of head scratching when those elements are suddenly taken away. One of the biggest [...]
by Rod Trent
March 27, 2012 in OS Deployment, SCCM 2007, System Center Configuration Manager by Rod Trent
Microsoft has posted up a hotfix for an issue when creating an OSD task to install a virtual application hosted in App-V. The OSD task will stop responding completely due to the Location service [...]
March 27, 2012 in ConfigMgr 2007, OS Deployment, OSD, PowerShell, SCCM 2007, System Center Configuration Manager by Matt Benninge
During a project to migrate to Windows 7 we enabled the Multicast role on the distribution points. I quickly realized that there was no easy way to get a good overview how the actual [...]
by Phil Schwan
February 15, 2012 in OS Deployment, OSD, SCCM 2007, System Center Configuration Manager by Phil Schwan
Back when we first began using SCCM for OS deployment at a customer site, we fought through an annoying issue with getting the machines to join the domain properly. This location was using a [...]
by Phil Schwan
February 8, 2012 in Microsoft Deployment (MDT), OS Deployment, OSD, SCCM 2007, Task Sequence by Phil Schwan
Scenario – You are using SCCM 2007 with MDT 2010 integration to deploy your Windows 7 image. You are leveraging the MDT database and CustomSettings.ini to apply packages and settings during deployment (perhaps using [...]
by Rod Trent
February 6, 2012 in OS Deployment, Windows by Rod Trent
Here’s a “good-to-know” bit of information, particularly if you are having issues with installing KB2509007. Frank Rojas put up a post describing the issue and it’s a really strange scenario. It reminds me of [...]
January 26, 2012 in OS Deployment, Windows by Eric Morrison
Recently I’ve been at a customer site performing a Windows 7 migration. The decision was made to enable BitLocker on all laptop systems during the OSD process. It took some research, but here is [...]
January 24, 2012 in WinPE by Chris Nackers
Posted in WinPEWinPETrying to set the screen resolution in WinPE 4.0 but having issues? Be sure to check out Johan Arwidmark‘s new blog post!
Setting screen resolution in WinPE 4.0
by Rod Trent
January 24, 2012 in OS Deployment, System Center Configuration Manager, Windows, WinPE by Rod Trent
In previous versions of WinPE you could set the screen resolution pretty easily by modifying the Unattend.xml file. Well…it’s still just as easy, except if you try the old method and older values in [...]
by Anoop C Nair
January 20, 2012 in OS Deployment, SCCM 2012, System Center Configuration Manager by Anoop C Nair
In John’s recent blog post, he talks about the improvements done on Task Sequence Import and Export features in ConfigMgr 2012 RC2 release. Read Full Post – http://blogs.technet.com/b/inside_osd/archive/2012/01/19/configuration-manager-2012-task-sequence-export-and-import.aspx Also go through some additional notes [...]
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