When deploying x64 legacy operating systems (XP/2003) you quickly realize the nic doesn’t work… here is the fix… Use the legacy network card, and the nic driver from Windows Server 2008 R2 (dc21x4vm.sys och dc21x4vm.inf) / Johan
Ever needed to deploy a device not capable of running WinPE 2.x or WinPE 3.0? Here are the steps to PXE boot WinPE 2005 (WinPE 1.6) from a WDS running Windows Server 2008 R2. Disclaimer: This is not supported by Microsoft! Use at your own risk… Step 1 – Add a boot menu to […]
Windows Embedded Standard 7 is componentized version of Windows 7, where you pick what components you want and you get a custom Windows 7 installation… With Windows Embedded Standard 7 you can automate the Image Builder Wizard (IBW) with an answer file. Here is a fully unattended sample that will deploy a minimal Windows Embedded […]
When deploying Hyper-V servers using MDT 2010 Zero Touch Roles and Features and ConfigMgr 2007 SP2, you quickly realize that the Hyper-V installation reboots the task sequence during the process and never processes the rest of it. This also requires you do to some additional housecleaning afterwards… But what if you want to do things […]
This is a quick guide for configuring settings per task sequence using MDT 2010, without the use of the database… Some background info… The Gather action in MDT is the process that gather all rules and it is run when the deployment wizard starts. But what if we want to set rules depending on what we select […]
Here is a sample configuration for assigning a few settings via a role to a specific set of machines (mac address), and then a standard set of settings for all other machines. If you are prestaging all the machines into the database this is easy, but what if I don’t want to use the database… […]
MDT 2010 Update 1 beta available on connect MDT 2010 Update 1 provides new capabilities, such as: Support for Microsoft Office 2010. A new User-driven Installation (UDI) deployment method (formerly known as “Modena”) for Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007. UDI gives information technology (IT) staff control over the deployment experience while empowering users […]
When deploying Windows 7 the Network Location dialog box is sometimes shown even though the machine is joined to a domain. It’s only on specific hardware but it’s quite common. Microsoft now has a hotfix (KB 2028749) for this bug. A “Set Network Location” dialog box appears when you first log on to a domain-joined […]
I recently had a customer who was having issues when importing drivers to an offline Windows 7 image, but only some of the drivers. The error they got was: Error – An error occurred. The driver package could not be installed. For more information, check for log files in the \inf folder of the target […]
Some time ago I came across the MigRecover Utility for Microsoft’s Windows Easy Transfer (thanks Calle Malmstrom for the tip!), It works great for extracting data from a standard USMT 4 store as well. There is also a version for USMT 3. The syntax is quite simple: MigRecover.exe [/i:] [/e:] [/v] [password] So for extracting […]