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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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →