What if I told you - The OSD Support Matrix for MDT and ConfigMgr is here?
For anyone doing OSD with MDT 2012/2013 and ConfigMgr 2012, the current OS support-matrix is just utterly confusing… Here are the facts:ConfigMgr 2012 SP1 CU3 – Supports deploying the following...
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ADSI plugin for WinPE 5.0
Back in 2005 I wrote my first ADSI for plugin WinPE (WinPE 2005 or v1.6), and per request I have since then updated it for every WinPE release... This is the release for WinPE 5.0 (part of ADK 8.1)....
View ArticleScript to build a VM in Hyper-V and boot from an ISO
This week I was doing a ConfigMgr 2012 R2 class in New York, and one of students asked if he could get the script I used to create the VM I use to build my reference images. Sure, here it...
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Deploying Surface 2 Pro with ConfigMgr 2012 SP1 CU3
This week I was assigned the task of deploying a Windows 8.1 Enterprise x64 image to a few Surface 2 Pro machines, using ConfigMgr 2012 SP1 CU3 integrated with MDT 2012 Update 1.I had already created...
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Adding DaRT 8.1 from MDOP 2013 R2 to ConfigMgr 2012 R2
When integrating MDT 2013 with ConfigMgr 2012 R2 (which you should, Capish!), and if you have access to DaRT 8.1 (MDOP 2013 R2), you can remote into WinPE when deploying the machines, great for...
View ArticlePowerShell script - Creating a WinPE 5.0 boot image for ConfigMgr 2012 SP1 CU3
To fully support deploying Windows 8.1 using ConfigMgr 2012 SP1 CU3 you need to have a WinPE 5.0 boot image. Here is a PowerShell script that builds one for you. The script adds the needed components...
View ArticleAdding GPO Pack support in MDT 2013 for Windows 8.1
If you ever tried to use GPO Packs in MDT 2013 or ConfigMgr 2012 R2, you quickly find out they will fail for Windows 8.1. The reason? Microsoft forgot to add support for Windows 8.1 in the...
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New Volume Wizard oddity in Windows Server 2012 R2
Whoever wrote the new volume wizard in Windows Server 2012 R2 had a odd sense of humor (or was just not very good at writing code). I mean, 1.54 TB is of course not equal to 1.54 TB, right?Anyway, this...
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For the fun of it - Benchmarking the HP Smart Array 420i controller
Armed with a HP ML350P, a huge pile of hard drives, SQLIO, PowerShell, CreateFile, and Captain Morgan (with diet coke) I set out to test what type of performance the HP Smart Array 420i controller...
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Using PowerShell to manage WDS in Windows Server 2012 R2
In Windows Server 2012 R2 Microsoft finally added in PowerShell support for Windows Deployment Services.The official TechNet documentation that you find here, is not entirely correct though: The module...
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Top ten OS Deployment posts in 2013 (and some cool stats)
Earlier this week I saw a tweet from Aidan Finn (@joe_elway) where he posting his top ten posts from his blog, and I thought: Hey, I’m stealing that idea! :) And while I’m at it, why not add some stats...
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Hoping for a fix to the Windows 8.1 GA image
For those of you being involved in a few Windows 8.1 deployment projects already (I have), you have probably stumbled into that setup behaves a bit differently in Windows 8.1 than it used to do in...
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Deploying UEFI machines with ConfigMgr 2012 R2
In a previous post I covered how to deploy the UEFI based Surface 2 machine using ConfigMgr 2012 SP1 CU3. The steps are quite similar for ConfigMgr 2012 R2 integrated with MDT 2013.In this post you...
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Configuring MDT Monitoring - Behind the scenes
If you are following the twitter feeds from the various OSD gurus out there you might stumbled across Mikael Nystrom’s great post about creating a webpage containing the MDT monitoring data. This a...
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Install Windows 8.1 on Intel NUC (D54250WY)
My latest home project involves using a Intel NUC (D54250WY) as a HTPC (Home Theatre Personal Computer), or in short I will use at as a media client for either Plex or XBMC (haven’t quite made up my...
View ArticleSample command lines and scripts from NIC 2014
In my sessions at NIC 2014 I demonstrated a few different command lines and PowerShell scripts. Here is a summary of the key command lines and scripts used in the sessions from Thursday. If you miss...
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Automatic Maintenance in Windows Server 2012 R2 is EVIL!
OK, I don’t know who within Microsoft came up with the not-that-bright idea of enabling updates house-cleaning (which kills the CPU) in the automatic maintenance task in Windows Server 2012 R2. But if...
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Upgrading to ConfigMgr 2012 SP1 CU4
Cumulative Update 4 (CU4) for ConfigMgr 2012 SP1 was released today (January 28, 2014). Info about the CU4 update is found here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2922875 here follows a short guide on...
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Configuring MDT 2013 Deployment Share settings via PowerShell
About two weeks ago I was finishing up writing an upcoming PowerShell book together with fellow MVP Mikael Nystrom. During the book development process we ran into having to configure a MDT 2013...
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Installing Office 2013 Language Packs in MDT - By Patrick Zovistoski
This post was contributed by Patrick Zovistoski, a fellow community member. Thanks!The following steps show how to configure your Task Sequence to automatically install an Office 2013 Language Pack...
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