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Clean up your wims
Generally I always use the append method of capturing my images (MDT’s ZTIBackup.wsf will do that for you, as explained here). This allows me to store multiple versions of my production image in the...
View ArticlePersonal notes no 8. Kill a running process
Sometimes you want to shutdown a running process before running an installation of a piece of software. In that case the native XP/win7/server08, utility TASKKILL comes in handy. In a case where I had...
View ArticleSmall useful scripts–Changing Driver Package source (PS1)
I have this customer who had to move all driver packages from from one server a another. This of cause meant all the Data Source references had to be change as well. Once al the packages were moved to...
View ArticleSmall useful scripts – OSD from USB without HAL.dll error (vbs)
This script only apply to Windows XP ( I know it’s going away soon, but people still use it!!), and just yesterday I answered a guy on TechNet who had this exact problem. So even though it’s almost...
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Changing the regional related (small) stuff! Dot vs. Comma
During OS deployment you normally set the regional settings to match the nationality of the user who are to receive the computer! This can be anything from the OS UI and keyboard, to Date and time...
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Extending OSD progress UI Info in SCCM
While running a task sequence, info on what is happening is shown in the progress UI, well the name of the Task Sequence, and the step that is running anyway!! But what if we could extend that info to...
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All Windows Keyboard layouts
I’m working for this customer who needs computers deployed I several different country’s. Because they run XP (I know!) they need that LCID – “hex code” number for the keyboard layout instead of the...
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Removing components and shortcuts from XP during OS deployment
I’m sorry to say that I have been working a lot with XP lately (the customers OS of choice). But at least I get to revisit those long forgotten parts of my brain, holding all the XP deployment info!...
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What’s that! I have a session @MMS2012
Tree years ago, my Girlfriend gave birth to our son, which kind of got in the way of me attending, and 2 years ago, that Icelandic Volcano eruption got in the way! Last year I did attended for the...
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Eject CD script, quarantined by FEP! PowerShell to the rescue!
I guess everyone knows that you can’t enable BitLocker on a machine from a Task Sequence if there is a CD in the CD drive… The workaround is quit simple, just run a script to eject the cd drive before...
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