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We’re back with a new version of Coretech Application Creator!
We have decided to change the name of the application, since the old name did not fit with all the features available.

Changelog / What’s New

1.0 RC1 -> 1.0.3

Application has a new name, the old name did not cover the features, and future plans for the application.
Configuration [...]

A nice thing about Integrating MDT into Config. mgr is the functionalities the Toolkit package gives you. The obvious thing being the ability to use all the MDT script without having to create individual packages..
Another thing I really like, is the fact that it will set a variable that points to the package, allowing you [...]

Lets say you have a application you only want to install on laptops, like f.ex. VPN or battery SW. Well now how do you get around this??
I use the MDT variable IsLaptop  as an option on my Task Sequence step.
1. add the MDT Gather step somewhere after the image has been deployed
 
 
2. [...]

 
I normally like to capture my reference images from a virtual machine as it eliminates a lot of the driver issues you have if you capture an Actual machine. I did sometimes run into problems capturing XP images though. The build and capture posses would work fine, but once I deployed the image (with [...]

 
As you properly know there are some significant differences in the way SCCM/OSD works before SP1 and after SP1.
One being the OS target drive during the WinPE phase (D or E instead of C), and also weather or not you have to "press OK to accept that OS deployment is about to start, [...]

 
A while ago, I noticed that the PC name specified during the "Import Computer Name" part of SCCM didn’t stick  trough out the entire deployment process..
The strange thing was that this wasn’t the case for all my task sequences. What I then noticed was that the name (when it changed) always took the [...]

 
I know there are many ways to handle PC naming during deployment, like prestaging, variables, userexit scripts, etc. But a very simple way is to just have the PC prompt you for a Name during The TaskSequece. I wrote a small script that in conjunction wit the fabulous ZTIUtillity.vbs script from MDT does just [...]

 
When testing your different deployment scenarios eg. Task Sequences, you normally create a Test collection, and associate a test PC to that collection.
Now ones the PC has successfully carried out the steps in the TS, you might want to change some thing, and then run the TS again. You now find that the [...]