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Booting WinPE 2.0 from a third party PXE Server Johan Arwidmark By johan on 3/30/2007 This article describes how to configure a third party PXE Server (Jounin Tftpd32) for booting Windows PE 2.0 Comments (0) More...

Windows Vista OPK Workshop Johan Arwidmark By johan on 3/8/2007 Links and info from the Windows Vista OPK Workshop in Stockholm 2007-03-08 Comments (0) More...

BDD LiteTouch Modification: Upgrade Option Removal Jason Scheffelmaer By Jason Scheffelmaer on 2/22/2007 10:00 AM Describes modification directly to the BDD scripts to disable or remove the "Upgrade" option completely from the Lite Touch scenario deployment type wizard. Comments (0) More...

Preinstalling the Virtual Server R2 Shunt Driver Johan Arwidmark By johan on 2/21/2007 This article describes how to preinstall the Virtual Server R2 Shunt Driver to Unattended Windows Server 2003 installations. Comments (0) More...

BDD Extension: ZTEUSMTConfigFile Jason Scheffelmaer By Jason Scheffelmaer on 2/20/2007 2:29 AM This extension can be used to define the USMT 3.0 config file in the customsettings.ini rules. This feature mimics the USMTMigFiles property as in it copies the config file to the local drive's correct folder and also updates the scanstate arguments to include /config: argument. Comments (0) More...

BDD Extension: ZTECustomConnect Jason Scheffelmaer By Jason Scheffelmaer on 2/15/2007 1:14 PM This article describes a method to use an extension to BDD in order to connect and authenticate to other resources using custom properties defined and set in the customsettings.ini. Comments (0) More...

Adding a Windows PE 2005 image to WDS (boot-in RAM) Johan Arwidmark By johan on 2/12/2007 This article explains how to add a Windows PE 2005 image to WDS, for example the OSD/ZTI Installation CD from BDD 2.5 or BDD 2007. Comments (0) More...

BDD Build Information Inventorying using SMS Jason Scheffelmaer By Jason Scheffelmaer on 2/6/2007 12:14 PM This blog gives a quick understanding on how to inventory build information on your BDD-built machines using the SMS_DEF.MOF file on SMS 2003. Comments (0) More...

A Geeks guide to storage drivers (Windows XP and Windows PE 2005) Johan Arwidmark By johan on 1/30/2007 A quick but hopefully useful guide for adding mass storage device drivers to Windows XP SP2. This guide explains how to add the Intel SATA driver (very common) to scripted installs, sysprepped images and Windows PE. Comments (0) More...

BDD 2007 fails deploying Windows XP because of Windows PE 2.0 uberbug Johan Arwidmark By johan on 1/28/2007 Windows PE 2.0 has a new way of writing partitions to the disks compared with Windows PE 2004/2005. Some BIOS (like HP D530, HP DC5000, HP DC5100) is not compatible with this method. However, there is a workaround... Comments (0) More...