Tag: osd
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Optimize the ‘build and capture’ time and size (SCCM Build)
Inspired by Johan’s post http://www.deploymentresearch.com/Research/tabid/62/EntryId/174/Building-reference-images-like-a-boss.aspx I am probably one of the few that uses SCCM to capture base images. I use it because I create a thick image and it keeps the history of packages that it has installed meaning that newly imaged machines will know that they have already installed software x when…
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Fix for customized Adobe CC Acrobat in base image not activated
If you put Adobe Acrobat in the base image using the steps from http://helpx.adobe.com/creative-cloud/packager/deploying-acrobat.html Install Customization Wizard XI msi + mst then Install CC package msi and mst you may find it not activated. To fix this during the OS Deployment add a run command line step to reinstall the CC package mst and mst. …
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KB: PXE boots using the wrong wim file.
If you happen to change the source name of a boot wim the pxe point may boot using the old file. To fix rename <Drive Letter>RemoteInstallSMSImages<WIMPkgID>oldbootname.wim to oldbootname.wim.old Next PXE boot it will then use the new boot.wim file.
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Versioning and naming your base SOE .wim during OSD
If you replace the base wim (via build and capture) frequently it can be good to set versions and date the wim file that you import. It makes it easy to revert back if a change didn’t go so well. Below are the steps in my build and capture to do versioning and work around…
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Deploy Windows 10 Preview with SCCM 2012 R2 (Unsupported)
Johan Arwidmark and Niall Brady have posted guides on deploying Windows 10 Preview injecting the Windows 10 version of Dism during the task sequence. http://www.deploymentresearch.com/Research/tabid/62/EntryId/193/Beyond-unsupported-Deploying-Windows-10-preview-including-drivers-with-ConfigMgr-2012-R2.aspx http://www.windows-noob.com/forums/index.php?/topic/11394-how-can-i-deploy-windows-10-enterprise-using-system-center-2012-r2-configuration-manager/
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Adding custom programs to the Set Default Programs UI
Hi, today I wanted the CMTrace tool to be recognised in the Set Default Programs control panel applet. There is a bit of information on the net but it’s confusing. In the registry you can set the program, launch arguments, file types and icon. This can be used for any app by modifying the reg…
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Modular Task Sequence groups – Just an idea
Maik Koster has created a really good tool that monitors/ keeps backup of task sequence changes http://myitforum.com/cs2/blogs/maikkoster/archive/2011/05/12/versioning-monitoring-sccm-task-sequences.aspx expanding from this it may be possible to mark groups of your task sequences as modules. So say when a task sequence changes the script would then record the xml changes of that module group and replace in…
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Take advantage of OEM Settings to display OSD state!
I have 2 scenarios that allows techs to determine the computers state. When the task sequence fails or when a Lab computer hasn’t been added to a lab group. It’s easy to enable the oembackground and rename a jpg picture. Group policy reg can disable the background picture. For the first scenario you enable ‘Continue…
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SCCM USB Boot disk creator
I made a little program that sets up usb drives to be bootable into OSD winpe. I made it because we are getting devices without dvd drives that can’t pxe boot and our techs don’t have access to create bootable usb’s from the console as they need the dp cert and password. You generate a…
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BDEDrive size
It helps to set a bit more space for this partition if you add more components to the boot wim, I chose to use 1GB. SCCM uses the drive with the most space that isn’t encrypted to copy the boot wim down. We had issues in operating system deployment if the boot wim needed…