In the “A Drivers Saga – The Control Freak meets The Dynamic Developer” session at MMS 2010 in Las Vegas, me and Michael Niehaus presented different methods of managing drivers with MDT 2010 and ConfigMgr 2007. I focused on MDT 2010 Lite Touch, and Michael Niehaus did the ConfigMgr part. On top of that Michael […]
Ever struggled with a 0x0000007B BSOD when deploying a Windows XP SP3 image? Struggle no more, here is a working driver set and sysprep mass storage section for most current hardware models… Instructions for adding the sample files to MDT 2010 Lite Touch In these steps I assume you have a deployment share in […]
On April 29th, join Microsoft Technical Fellow, Mark Russinovich, as he will be leading a discussion around the process of planning, testing, assessing and rolling out Windows 7 in an enterprise organization. Mark will be joined by a panel of IT professionals who are currently in the piloting and deployment process, along with Microsoft subject […]
Note: This is an archived Article, the latest version is available at: http://deploymentresearch.com/Blog/tabid/62/EntryId/2/Demo-from-MMS-2011-Using-WDS-without-Active-Directory-Configuring-a-standalone-WDS.aspx / Johan In Windows Server 2008 R2, Microsoft added support for using the PXE listener without Active Directory. Here is a complete guide on how to configure a standalone Windows Server 2008 R2 WDS Server Pre-Requisites In these steps […]
Pretty Good Frontend for ConfigMgr 2007 is released, including source code. Download (binaries, sourcecode and documentation) on http://prettygoodfrontend.codeplex.com / Johan
I have updated my ADSI plugin for Windows PE, and also added x64 support. Other new features are fully automated scripts for creating a Windows PE 3.0 image with the necessary components for ADSI to work. Download link: http://www.deployvista.com/Repository/tabid/71/EntryId/61/DMXModule/396/Download/attachment/language/en-US/Default.aspx / Johan
Integrating another (3rd party) boot menu for WDS in Windows Server 2008 R2 has changed compared with standard Windows Server 2008… here is how to do it… Download and extract syslinux-3.85.zip or later from http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/syslinux (it contains pxelinux) Copy the com32\menu\vesamenu.c32 and com32\modules\chain.c32 files to your WDS Server, to both the D:\RemoteInstall\Boot\x64 and D:\RemoteInstall\Boot\x86 folders. Copy […]
Note: for latest version of this article, go to the below link: http://www.deploymentresearch.com/Blog/tabid/62/EntryId/35/Trace64-finally-here-to-stay-But-it-is-hidden.aspx Finally, after many years Microsoft released trace64 to the public, a 64-bit logviewer for the ConfigMgr and MDT log files… And yes it works in WinPE x64 too… It’s part of the MDT 2010 Healthcare package (In the Files\DeploymentShare\Applications\HTHMDT2010\Tools folder) Download Link: […]
Having workgroup machines in native mode is sort of a pain, but Microsoft actually supports it. You need to do the following… Check the “Allow HTTP communication for roaming and site assignment” site setting in the site mode tab of site properties. (On the site server you will be using for creation of the image) […]
This is the process when executing a Sysprep and Capture Task Sequence in MDT 2010 (capturing a Windows 7 OS). The Unattend.xml file belonging to the Sysprep and Capture Task Sequence is copied from the Deployment Share to C:\MININT. The C:\MININT\Unattend.xml is updated with the rules/settings in MDT by the Configure action in the […]