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Archive: Best Practices to Capture an Image for Deployment
Capturing a solid image is the first step to managing your systems properly, and I have never covered it specifically on this site until now (even though I do it frequently). This post should help guide you in using best practices for the best possible image. Typically, I do all of my image captures through MDT,…
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Archive: How to Install MDT and Configure Windows Server 2012 for PXE Booting
I decided to make this next post as a video – let me know if I can answer any question you may have. It’s simply an overview on how to get started with the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit and configure PXE booting in Windows Server 2012 to work with MDT. On a related note- let me know…
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Archive: Use PSEXEC for mass client operations (when Config Manager isn’t available)
I’m sure most of you out there have heard of and used PSEXEC (it’s been around for a while). For those of you who haven’t, check out the entire PSTOOLS suite– it is an extremely powerful set of tools. In short, PSEXEC allows you to execute a command on a remote system. Of course, you must…
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Archive: Deploy Office 2013 using App-V 5.0
For those of you looking to deploy Office 2013 as a virtual application, look no further. Here’s your Office 2013 App-V deployment guide: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2915745 Here are some of the benefits of testing a new version of Office (or any application, for that matter) as a virtual application: It’s great for trying out new applications without…
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Archive: Script to rebuild Windows WMI repository
The SCCM client relies heavily on a healthy WMI repository, which easily corrupts for various reasons. This has been improved great over the versions of Windows, but it still happens. This VBscript will rebuild the WMI repository on the system you run it on. This should only be done if WMI is broken- it is…