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USMT Version Needed for your Operating System Deployment
The version of the User State Migration Tool (USMT) that you need to use to migrate user data and application settings for your Operating System Deployment (OSD) depends on your source and target...
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Installing the MBAM Client During OSD
In a recent Windows XP to Windows 7 migration project, my client requested to use MBAM to manage Bitlocker. I had to design the MBAM infrastructure as well as to provision the MBAM client during the...
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Move Computer to OU during OSD
A few months ago I wrote a blog post about how to dynamically compute the Organizational Unit (OU) where a computer should be placed when joining an Active Directory domain during an Operating System...
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Roles in SCCM OSD without using a Database
You may have the need to set different configuration settings based on a role for the computer where Windows is being installed. For example, a computer for someone in the human resources department...
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SCCM OSD: Use DaRT to Remotely Access Windows PE
You can use the Microsoft Diagnostic and Recovery Toolset (DaRT) 7 to establish a remote connection to a system where Windows 7 is being deployed with System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) 2012...
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Windows Intune and SCCM Start Merging
About three months ago I wrote about Consumerization of IT, SCCM and Windows Intune. As mobile devices continue to proliferate, users will demand to use their own personal devices in the work...
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SCCM, Windows Deployments and UE-V
In many Windows deployment projects that I've worked on, customizing USMT to migrate just the right user data and application settings for refresh scenarios can add a considerable amount of time to the...
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Automating Windows Deployments With No DHCP
Last week I had the need to automate the deployment of Windows 7 using System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) 2012 in a Refresh scenario on systems where DHCP wasn't available. These systems used...
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Use SCCM To Remove Users From Local Administrators Group
This week I worked on a request by a client to use System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) to remove unauthorized user accounts from the local Administrators group on computers being managed by...
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Validate Hardware during Windows Deployment
Before System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) deploys an operating system to a computer system, it can validate that it has the appropriate hardware according to your requirements. In the task...
View ArticleSCCM OSD: Automating Device Manager Functions
(Lifetime Pageviews to my blog reached one million this month. Thank you for your support!)In a recent Windows XP to Windows 7 deployment project, it was requested that bluetooth functionality be...
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Rename PCs During SCCM OSD ZTI
Recently I had to develop a solution to automate renaming computers when refreshing the operating system on them using System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) 2012 SP1. The rename needed to occur...
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Check for TPM Before Enabling Bitlocker during OSD
While working on a project deploying Windows 7 SP1 using System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) 2012 SP1, we had the need to ensure early in the task sequence (TS) that if the target system was a...
View ArticleMBAM 2.0 and SCCM
This morning at MMS 2013 I attended a session on What's New with Windows 8 BitLocker and MBAM 2.0. At the end of the session the speaker was happy to announce that MBAM 2.0 had just been released....
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OSD - Pause BitLocker and Resume After Deployment
In a recent project migrating Windows XP to Windows 7 using System Center Configuration Manager 2012 (ConfigMgr) integrated with the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2012 Update 1 (MDT), BitLocker...
View ArticleHierarchy Changes in ConfigMgr 2012 SP1
This expands on my post Hierarchy Changes in SCCM 2012 by adding SP1-specific information.Cloud-based Distribution PointYou can now have a distribution point (DP) in Windows Azure. You can specify in...
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ConfigMgr Infrastructure to Support Internet Clients
In this post I provide information that can be used to assist with the design of a ConfigMgr 2012 infrastructure to manage Internet-based clients.Security must be taken into consideration when...
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Deploying Windows Fully Patched
In this post I describe one way of deploying Windows fully patched. I use the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) to create my reference image. I then import the image into ConfigMgr to deploy it to...
View ArticleRun Command If Computer is Not a Member of AD Group
Recently Gary Smith added a comment to my blog post Use SCCM to Remove Users from Local Administrators Group. He wanted to uninstall software using the "msiexec /x" command if the computer where the...
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SCCM 2012 OSD - Deploying Windows using Stand-alone Media
In this post I describe how to deploy Windows 7 or Windows 8 to systems located on remote locations isolated from the network and with no connectivity to the SCCM 2012 infrastructure.ProblemSometimes...
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