Super security rock star Steve Riley, Mikael Nystrom and me is coming to a town near you in March. It’s the Windows 7 RoadShow – 2010 Edition. A full day technical seminar on Windows 7. On the Agenda: Live Demonstrations – Leading Experts – Windows 7 – Security – Management – Deployment – Tips & […]
To start a MDT 2010 Lite Touch installation remotely, e.g. without having to visit the machine, you can use the psexec tool (Microsoft / Sysinternals). In my sample the remote PC is named PC0004 and my deployment server is MDT01. The deployment share is MDTProduction$ and the user account I use for my installations is […]
Generate Computernames in MDT 2010 based on prefix and a sequencenumber This procedure works like this: If they computername is in the database already (known), it will assign that name to the PC. If the computer is not in the database (unknown), it will generate a computername based on the prefix and the next sequencenumber. […]
IEEE 802.1X authentication protocol for WinPE is available as a hotfix download. Thanks to Ronni Pedersen for pointing it out 🙂 IEEE 802.1x for WinPE 3.0 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972831 IEEE 802.1x for WinPE 2.1 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/975483
Recently I have received quite a number of emails from people having problem using VMware Workstation 7.0 to build reference images with MDT 2010 Lite Touch. Here is a guide… Verify the XP media, the VM, and get the drivers First, verify that the Windows XP Pro Media is working correctly, and that your vmware […]
When using MDT 2010 Zero Touch to deploy Windows 7 x64 the Task Sequence may hang in State Restore phase. The hang occurs when the Use MDT Toolkit Action tries to run. Cause: It’s actually not MDT’s fault, its a bug in ConfigMgr, and it will occur for every script/action that tries to use the Microsoft.SMS.TSEnvironment. […]
When deploying Windows 7 x64 using MDT 2010 Zero Touch and ConfigMgr 2007 SP2 the TimeZoneName variable does not work as expected. Windows 7 x86 however works fine. Workaround: Add a “Set a Task Sequence variable” action before the “Apply Windows Settings” action in the Task Sequence, and set OSDTimeZone to %TIMEZONENAME% Note: You also […]
When deploying Windows Embedded 2009 Trial Edition with sysprep you need to enter a valid runtime PID. If you add the Trial PID you got from Microsoft into sysprep.inf, and you deploy that image, the mini-setup will display the following error message: “An unexpected error has occurred while changing your computer network configuration“. Later on, […]
The best multiple partitions analogy ever… Generally I would always recommend to only have ONE partition these days. Going down the route of making multiple partitions is like having multiple wives/girlfriends/lovers… it’s all fun and games for a while but ends with disaster. – Andreas H.
Me and Mikael Nyström are going on tour in February 2010… The Deployment Roadshow 2010 – in Sweden… http://www.deploymentroadshow.com The full day seminar (which is presented in Swedish) is based on the following four pillars… Windows 7 Deployment Highlights MDT 2010 Lite Touch MDT 2010 Zero Touch Deployment Tips & Tricks