Administrative Tools The Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit With the public release of the Windows 8 Release Preview, Microsoft has gone back and thought about how IT Pros are going to handle imaging. I suppose this is a good thing since
Deployment Deployment Workbench hangs during ISO Media Creation A colleague of mine was attempting to build an ISO of a Windows 7 image from our MDT share and ran into a problem. No matter what computer he tried to build the
Deployment MDT Troubleshooting - "Unable to map a network drive to" or "Network Path Not Found" I started seeing a very strange issue when trying to do a network deployment of Windows from my MDT share. This started after I updated my deployment share last week. The OS image
Deployment WinPE error when connecting to an MDT share: "Invalid Credentials" Have you ever seen this error when trying to re-image a computer using Microsoft Deployment Toolkit? You double-checked everything. The credentials are correct for the service\local account you created with access to
Administrative Tools Advanced Format Hard Drives and OS Deployment with Microsoft Deployment Toolkit or SCCM After about a week, I finally figured out how to resolve a problem that we were experiencing with the Dell Latitude E6420 laptops when trying to re-image them with a custom Windows XP
Deployment Install an MDT Application based on Model and Network or Media Distribution Point I ran into a little problem while with trying to install an application inside of my Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010 distribution share. I needed a batch file, or script, to detect the hardware
Administrative Tools USB Boot Disk Edition #4 – Using the Windows USB DVD Download Tool The from Microsoft is an incredibly useful piece of But this is not the only magic of this tool. Using the , any WinPE based image can be made into a bootable USB stick!
Boot Disc USB Boot Disk Edition #3 – Install Ubuntu from a USB Flash Drive Ah yes, … currently the most popular Linux distribution in the world. If you have not installed or tried Linux, you are truly missing out. You will not find a more user friendly, open
Administrative Tools How to add the Sysinternals Suite as an application install in MDT I really enjoy Sysinternals tools and I prefer that it is included with every OS install that I deploy. The reason is because sometimes I need to travel to provide on-site support and
Administrative Tools Converting old Windows XP Ghost images to Microsoft Deployment Services or Microsoft Deployment Toolkit **Special Note: Please keep in mind that this article does not explain how to prepare or configure your network environment for imaging. There is simply too much information to write and is out
Deployment Encryption and Modification of core OS files at the same time just don’t mix It has been a little while since my last blog entry – I think it has been a month or so… During that time, I have learned quite a bit more about the Windows
Administrative Tools Desktop Imaging and Operating System Deployment solutions for Windows I have been assisting with maintaining the desktop images at my current place of employment. Everything works fine for now, but the company wants to deploy Windows 7 with Office 2010 VERY soon.