Editing Local Groups via the Command Line
Thursday, June 10th, 2010 Posted in How To, Microsoft, Miscellaneous, Work | No Comments »I use MDT to deploy our servers here at the office and I’m frequently forgetting build steps – namely adding a certain group to the local Administrators group on all the servers I build. I was looking for a way ...
Bootable USB Media from Microsoft Deployment Toolkit
Friday, June 4th, 2010 Posted in MDT, Microsoft, Work | No Comments »As we continue to forge ahead in our brazen quest to upgrade our enterprise to Windows 7, we’ve found ourselves reaching the limits of what we can reasonably expect from WDS and MDT. For us, jobsites pose an interesting issue ...
WDS Boot Manager Timeout
Monday, March 8th, 2010 Posted in Microsoft, WDS, Work | No Comments »If you use WDS on a regular basis, you know that after PXE booting, WDS loads the Windows Boot Manager to allow you to choose which boot image you’d like to boot with. You’ll also have undoubtedly been a victim ...
A Tale of Build Numbers and Deployment
Friday, March 5th, 2010 Posted in MDT, Microsoft, WDS, Windows 7, Work | 4 Comments »I’d just like you to know that I’ve been pulling my hair out all week. I’m practically bald now. We’ve been using MDT 2010 for quite some time and I’ve been super happy with it. Until this week. So, ...
Configuring Existing App-V Sequences for the 4.6 Client Beta
Monday, August 10th, 2009 Posted in App-V, Beta, Microsoft | 1 Comment »I’ve seen a lot of buzz lately on the release of the App-V 4.6 Public Beta. Of course, I downloaded the new 4.6 clients because the most exciting feature (to me) in it is support for 64-bit App-V clients. The second ...
WIM2VHD
Wednesday, July 8th, 2009 Posted in Hyper-V, Microsoft | No Comments »In looking for an easy way to deploy operating systems to virtual servers, I started digging around for a way to import a WIM (like what comes on the 2008 installation DVD) into SCVMM's library. Instead, I found something that ...
Refreshing App-V Publishing Server
Monday, June 15th, 2009 Posted in App-V, Microsoft | No Comments »We're in the middle of checking out App-V from Microsoft's MDOP. At the moment, the deployment is limited to IT (and a fraction of IT at that). We've already figured out a lot of cool things about it, but we've ...
Windows 7 Windows Management
Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009 Posted in Microsoft, Windows 7, Work | 1 Comment »Around the office, most of us are used to using UltraMon to manage our windows on the beautiful 23" monitors we have. Unfortunately, for the time being, UltraMon doesn't provide support for 7, so some of us are left manually ...
Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows 7 Release Candidate
Wednesday, May 27th, 2009 Posted in Beta, Microsoft, Windows 7 | No Comments »For future reference, here are the remote administration tools for Windows 7: Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows 7 Release Candidate (RC) Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows® 7 RC enables IT administrators to manage roles and features that are installed on ...
Unsupported Cluster Configuration
Tuesday, April 28th, 2009 Posted in Beta, Hyper-V, Microsoft, Server 2008 | No Comments »Maybe Michael should go away more often. I seem to get a lot more done when he's out. Today, I added the third node to the Hyper-V R2 cluster we're currently testing. When I did, VMM freaked out and all of ...