Easy way to install depending on Chassis Type (laptop, Desktop or Server)
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 [...]
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Capture from VPC keeps rebooting when deployed.
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 [...]
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SCCM versions
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, [...]
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Wrong PC name after deployment
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 [...]
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easy way to change PC name during Deployment
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 [...]
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Keep Test Computers in Test collection.
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 [...]
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