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How can I Deploy Applications based on AD security group membership for Computers using a Task Sequence Step by Step

The following guide is based upon a post by Daniel Oxley on The Deployment Guys blog where he showed a MDT Task Sequence which could install applications based on Active Directory queries, I have modified the script provided and created … Continue reading

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Migrate XP to Windows 7 using Offline mode in Windows PE – screenshots describing the process

I’ve been testing scanstate in Offline mode while in Windows PE in the last few days for Windows XP to Windows 7 migrations and it’s impressive and fast, so I thought this would be a good way of showing you … Continue reading

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using Offline Mode in Windows PE using USMT 4 via a task sequence in SCCM 2007 SP2 scanstate using offlinewindir in winpe

hi all, well this feature in USMT 4 is handy, as it allows you to do a scanstate while in Windows PE in other words, not in the OS so no problems with services running or applications running meaning that … Continue reading

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Customising Windows 7 deployments – part 2. Specifying an Organisational Unit (OU) using the MachineObjectOU variable.

Specifying an Organisational Unit (OU) using the MachineObjectOU variable. Step 1. Create a collection variable. In Configmgr expand the collections node and select your Deploy 7 x86 collection (if you don’t have one, create one for the purpose of this … Continue reading

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Customising Windows 7 deployments – part 1. Changing the keyboard layout using unattend.xml

This is a very common question, how can I change the regional, keyboard, locale etc in Windows 7, so I’ll try and explain how  i do it in this post. In this example we will make the Italian keyboard layout … Continue reading

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Using psexec to test vbs scripts in the Local System context

I’m sure this is  blogged elsewhere but I find it useful to have handy so here goes 🙂 When creating packages in ConfigMgr you should have a test environment (virtual is best, because you can take snapshots and revert snapshots … Continue reading

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Migrating Windows XP to Windows 7 using hardlinking – setting up a Demo

In this post I will explain how I demo migrating Windows XP to Windows 7 using hardlinking (or SMP). I do this on a fairly regular basis for customers to show the capabilities of SCCM. If you want to do … Continue reading

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Selecting Powershell from the Add Roles and Features MDT 2010 integration with SCCM 2007 SP2 causes roles and features to be ignored

If you are deploying Server 2008 R2 with SCCM 2007 SP2 w MDT 2010 integration, and select the Windows Powershell Feature within the Task Sequence Install Roles and Features Step, the task sequence will ignore any roles and features you … Continue reading

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