Overview Deploying Windows XP with MDT is tricky. The typical creating a golden image and then linking the golden image to the final image...
Background: I had been an AT&T Wireless (formerly Cingular) customer for 12 years before the idea came to me, via a colleague, to use ...
You want to set the BIOS settings during an imaging process, but you can't get it correctly sequenced into the task sequencing. The BIO...
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This script is to allow you to see the pop-ups that occur during software installations which are hidden by the Installation Progress Windo...
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Microsoft originally created the Project 2007 template for the deployment of Office 2007 but has not created one for Office 2010. I am begi...
The Dell BIOS executables do have switches. Dell does not openly publish the list. There are snippets in obscure locations on their site of...
In order to modify the installation process of an MSI file, you will need to use a program that can look at the MSI database. For that, I u...
There was little documentation on how to get a language pack to appear as an optional installation in the MDT 2010 process. You might first...
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There are three ways to get the list of variables that MDT uses: Technet has a comprehensive list of the SCCM/MDT variables located h...
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You may have an application that needs special credentials when installing during the MDT deployment. As you have seen, there is no where t...
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This occurs when a Windows 7 system has been sysprepped three times -- KB929828 . To overcome this, you will need to do the following: 1)...