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Windows 8 “Consumer” Preview is out – time to download

Posted by Mikael Nystrom on February 29, 2012

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Yes, you can download it, it works and you can start playing with it, however it is a “Preview” (Back in the old days we used to call it BETA)

There are also a bunch of documents you can read to understand all the new features (trust me, there are many new things)

You can read more of this here:


http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/hh771457.aspx

The download link is here:


http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-8/iso?ocid=W_OFF_W8P_TechCenter_ISO_EN-US

If you need the ADK, you need to have access to MSDN to be able to download it

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TechDays 2012 in Sweden – OS Deployment pre-conf

Posted by Mikael Nystrom on February 27, 2012

Yes, it is true. Johan Arwidmark and me (Mikael Nystrom) will do a full Pre Conference day packed with OS Deployment, focus will be on deploying Windows 7 using both free tools like Microsoft Deployment toolkit 2012 and also Configuration Manager 2012. We will cover all the fun things, like Ref Images, Applications, what to do and what NOT to do. But even if the focus is on Windows 7, we will cover some bits and pieces around Windows 8 so that you can be sure that the deployment solution you build will also work with the next generation of Windows. You can read more about it here.


http://www.techdays.se/nu-aven-pa-pre-conferens


https://www.delegia.com/app/attendee/default.asp?ProjectId=2518&PageId=19628

See you at TechDays !

/mike

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Deployment Fundamentals VOL:1 – Free Online e-book!!!

Posted by Mikael Nystrom on February 7, 2012

Last night I was in a discussion with a friend and he was angry with me, he think its wrong to “give” knowledge away for free. I on the other hand have a different opinion. I started to think of how all this started many years ago, when IT was “new”, when we all where geeks, trying to figure things out and when we finally got anything to work, we used to run around and tell everyone that “–Hey, it works, it works, it works”

I believe in that, giving other people a bit more knowledge on how-to and maybe, just maybe you/he/she can go home with a smile and say “–Hey, it works.”

So, in that spirit, when Microsoft asked us if they could publish the most importent chapters of “Deployment Fundamentals Volume 1″ as an e-book on Microsoft.com, we said, –Yes, Of course.

Today, 4 chapters of the book is online and its for you to read.

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Back to Basic: Permissions needed in AD to “mess” with computers during OS Deployment

Posted by Mikael Nystrom on February 2, 2012

No, nothing new at all, this is more of a “Note”; I hate to look this up around my own notes when I troubleshoot things. This normally applies to the WDS account when WDS is installed on something else then the DC (which should be the case) or you use a BuildAccount in MDT LTI

The following permissions are needed in the OU where account X should be able to create computer accounts

Scope: This Object and all descendant objects

  • Create Computer Objects
  • Delete Computer Objects

Scope: Descendant Computer Objects

  • Read All Properties
  • Write All Properties
  • Read Permissions
  • Modify Permissions
  • Change Password
  • Reset Password
  • Validated write to DNS host name
  • Validated write to services principal name

/Mike – Over and Out

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