Someone asked med a while back – Is it possible to upgrade our Windows 7,8,8.1 and unsupported Windows 10 machines to a supported version of Windows 10 without a deployment solution? ….(thinking) […]
OSD – Adding Description to the WIM file during Build and Capture
The default capture function in MDT does not add any description. It is not needed, but can be added by modifying ZTIBackup.wsf. In this case I added the Task Sequence Name, but […]
OSD – App-V tools are missing in ADK 1703 when being installed on Windows Server 2016 (sometimes)
In ADK 1607 the App-V tools was included in the ADK, for some reason they don’t show up when installing on Windows Server 2016 (sometimes). If you install on Windows Server 2012 […]
OS Deployment – Installing ADK 1703 on Windows Server 2016 could fail
Update:It does not happens on all WS2016 machines, it happens only on computer where Secure Boot is enabled. This also means that this will happen on every machine that is using Secure […]
OSD – Conditional disk layout (based on model)
A while back I did an online training for Penton Tech https://education.pentontechnology.com/courses/deploying-windows-10-os-using-microsoft-deployment-toolkit on Windows 10 OS Deployment. One of the attendees had a question (you know who you are). – Is it […]
OSD – Deploying Windows Server 2016 NANO using Microsoft Deployment Toolkit
The “Gandalf” of Windows Operating System has done it once again, I’m talking about Michael Niehaus of course. He has created a package for MDT Build 8443 that enables you to deploy […]
OSD – BIOS upgrade during OS Deployment in MDT/ConfigMgr (v3)
This is the third version of the script solution; it is very simple. You detect make/model in any way you would like to, create a rule based on BIOS version, if the […]
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 […]