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Back to basics #3 – Branding the deployment and fixing the 0xc000000e problem

Two more tips for the blog. Actually, one is a tip and the other is the solution to a common problem I see! During the execution of a task sequence in MDT (normally while creating an image, or deploying one) the computer will display the Installation Progress window in the centre of the screen...

Posted to External News (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-20-2008
Back to basics #2 – 7 Things you shouldn’t do in a LiteTouch Deployment

The below list is a list of the most common mistakes made when creating a LiteTouch task sequence. While not an exhaustive list, it might help to improve your deployment experience when using MDT to create LiteTouch deployments. 1.) Hard-code paths to files/scripts in the task sequence, or inside a script...

Posted to External News (Weblog) by Anonymous on 10-17-2008
Back to basics #1 – Locking the computer during deployment

This is the first post in a series that will cover some of the more simple/basic tricks that you can do with MDT, but that are often overlooked. I’ll be the first to admit that a couple of them I only learnt recently, even though I have been using BDD/MDT for years. During the deployment of a computer...

Posted to External News (Weblog) by Anonymous on 10-01-2008
Usefull post from Michael about MDT and Hyper-V

Michael Niehaus posted instructions to add Hyper-V Integration Components into WinPE : Using the Hyper-V integration components with MDT 2008 Update 1 Lite Touch ~ Guillaume

Posted to External News (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-13-2008
Welcome to Microsoft Setup Blog

Welcome to the Microsoft Setup blog. I am Mert and i work on for Microsoft Corporation. This blog will give you strategic guidance regarding Microsoft setup and depoyment technologies.

Posted to External News (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-09-2008
L'éternel problème du pilote manquant...

Je me suis encore confronté aujourd'*** à la recherche du pilote de carte réseau qu'on ne trouve jamais... Dans le contexte, à chaque workshop que je délivre autour de MDT, je bute toujours sur l'impossibilité de me connecter à mon point de déploiement depuis l'image WinPE Lite Touch...

Posted to External News (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-04-2008
Documenting Your Task Sequences Automagically

Often times, after creating an MDT or SCCM task sequence, you need to document it for yourself or your customers. Usually, this involves creating a table with the groups and steps, extracting their descriptions, identifying conditions and denoting the step actions and variables and then having format...

Posted to External News (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-17-2008
MDT 2008 Update 1 released

Check it out on Microsoft download : Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) 2008 Update 1 Quickly reading the release notes, here are the new features : Lite Touch OEM-Preload : in this case, MDT 2008 takes the contents of a media deployment point (USB, DVD, and so on) and loads it onto the hard drive, configuring...

Posted to External News (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-01-2008
Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2008 Update 1 is now Available

We are pleased to announce the release of our first update to Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2008 (MDT 2008). We have added two major features: OEM preload scenarios for Lite Touch I nstallation and Zero Touch Installation with System Center Configuration Manager 2007 and a new management pack for System...

Posted to External News (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-31-2008
Task Sequence logic tricks using MDT variables

In my particular part of the Microsoft organisation (the CTS testing lab), we install just about every OS, at every service pack level, on both major platforms. Because of this, I created a master template that is used to create dozens of task sequences where the only thing that changes is the OS. To...

Posted to External News (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-28-2008

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