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Imagine the scenario, you deploy some Windows 7 laptops but receive feedback from the users that they don’t like the power management default settings, to get around this you could use Group Policy or if that’s not possible due to … Continue reading →

In Part 1. of this series we Installed vNext, now we will configure it. If you have used Configuration Manager 2007 before you’ll know that we need to use Boundaries. You need boundaries or the clients will not find the … Continue reading →

This guide is for a beta product, namely vNext Beta 1. You might be wondering why I’m installing it from scratch and not using the VHD provided by Microsoft, the reason why is because I want to experience everything that … Continue reading →

I had this problem today so thought i’d blog about it, as it’s so annoying. Imagine you are editing your masterpiece and you make a change to the task sequence and click apply. The ConfigMgr console reports back an error … Continue reading →

This is one that you’ll deal with sooner or later, Windows XP Service Pack 3 is a valid example (requires a reboot after install and therefore produces an exit code of 3010 or 0x80070bc2 Your task sequence will interpret the … Continue reading →

Ever wanted to prompt a user for a password prior to the Task Sequence doing it’s job, well you can and this is how I do it [in WinPE] create a blank text file in notepad called promptforpassword.wsf paste the … Continue reading →

I saw this today on Technet and wanted to share it, blog it, long story short a guy was having problems joining his Windows 7 computer to the domain, he was specifying an OU and we later found out, his … Continue reading →

I think this will happen to most of us sooner or later, you send out an advertisement of an application or even worse an OSD deployment and it targets more than you bargained for, end result, mayhem and panic ensues. … Continue reading →

I didn’t get to MMS 2010, but I made sure to watch the keynote by Bob, and here are some fairly random points I’ve taken from the Keynote, if they don’t make sense then apologies, I took these while watching … Continue reading →

hi all, here is webcast #2, Dynamically Installing Applications in SCCM. This webcast references the following post: Dynamic application Installation You can download the webcast here (73MB), please do me a favor and leave your feedback/suggestions/comments about the webcast. cheers … Continue reading →

You are using Offline mode in Windows PE and you notice it’s not migrating your network printers. Don’t worry, windows-noob is here to help, add the following XML file to your existing USMT 4 package. Please note: the following has … Continue reading →

ok you are using Offline mode in Windows PE and you notice it’s not migrating your wallpaper amongst other things. Well all hope is not lost, you can simply make some new XML files and add them to your existing … Continue reading →

I’ve put together some posts over on windows-noob explaining how you can utilise Update Lists when deploying updates,  there are more parts coming but I wanted to give you a look all the same, right now there are 3 parts … Continue reading →

I came across this while building a USB key to do a standalone deployment and the error produced wasn’t so helpful so I thought i’d document how to resolve it. Error: Some required packages are not available in selected distribution … Continue reading →

I know a lot of you have asked for more details and clarification so here it is, it’s Offline Mode in Windows PE and references the following post. I hope the webcast brings some clarity into how the process works … Continue reading →