very long time ago I did a teaser for a event, it was a joke on how to convert a Laptop computer into a Tablet PC. It turns out that for some […]
OSD–Customizing Images and deployment, think about that for a second
This is one of those blogposts that tries to answer lost of question and and the same time create new questions, but I get a lot of questions regarding the topic of […]
PowerShell is King – Getting a massive amount of hotfixes from the Windows Update Site
Working for a customer in Norway, I received a list of “hotfixes” that needs to be downloaded and imported into WSUS for distribution, number of patches was 90. I have not found […]
PowerShell is King – Simple function to test a VMSwitch is present
When building VM’s, they are usually connected to a Hyper-V switch, so when working for a customer I suddenly needed to verify that the switch actually exists before building the VM. One […]
OSD – The future of MDT is going to be PowerShell!
At MMSmoa today, Michael Niehaus presented a new approach for MDT, the shift from VBscript to PowerShell. They idea is to get the code up on GitHub. The basic engine and framework […]
OSD – Export drivers using a task sequence in Lite Touch and some PowerShell
Yesterday i did a demo of a Task Sequence I use to extract drivers from a computer that already have all drivers correctly installed, could be a system that I need to […]
OSD – In MDT 2013 Update 2–Sometimes “WimSplit” works and sometimes not
and i do not like “sometimes”. The need for WimSplit is big, the most common reason is to install Windows on a UEFI based machine. In that case the boot media must […]
OSD – Prevent Windows to “randomly” run Windows Update during the creation of a reference image
You should absolutely have patches installed in your reference image, no question about the. The default setting in Microsoft Deployment Toolkit is to run Windows Update “when needed” and the default behavior […]
