Michael Petersen has a nice new post up on the CoreTech Blog that is something I talk repeatedly about with clients. Only injecting the drivers you NEED, instead of needlessly injecting drivers until you get a working boot image. Read the full post here. It seems to me, people tend to add way to many…
Johan Arwidmark has a new post up talking about integrating Dart 7 (beta) into your WinPE images to allow remote connectivity. Read the full post here. In the new Dart 7 (Beta) release, Microsoft added a remote connection application to WinPE, it allows you to connect to a WinPE system using the new Dart Remote…
Michael Murgolo has a new post over on The Deployment Guys Blog. Read the full post here. I recently had the need to pop up a message box duing an LTI task sequence. I was creating a stand-alone wizard to allow a manually-initiated launch of a task sequence that would install the Service Pack 1…
Ben Hunter has a new post over on The Deployment Guys Blog. Read the original post here. If you are using MDT Update 1 to deploy Windows 7 SP1 language packs then please pay attention, this post will save you time. MDT 2010 Update 1 does not address the Enhanced Language Pack handling in Windows…
Staging a local copy of Exchange Databases for geographically dispersed Database Availability Groups (DAG) is an alternative to seeding databases over a WAN. Microsoft documents this on Technet as (manually copy an offline database). The steps include dismounting the database and then copying to an external volume. I prefer to leave Exchange up and running,…
AUSTIN, Texas – July 21, 2011 – At the recent Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference, Catapult Systems, a Microsoft IT consulting firm, was honored with several important awards from Microsoft including 2011 Microsoft Worldwide Digital Marketing Partner of the Year. The Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) is an annual gathering for thousands of partners from more…
When working with remote teams, you’re going to have conference calls to bridge the gap in distance. I’ve often been involved in conference calls where I was in a room with 5 or 6 people, including all of the project leaders, while others were attending remotely. It’s easy for the leadership group to forget about…
Nick Moseley put a post about dealing with Dell TouchPad configurations. Read his post here. We recently received the new Dell E6320 and E6420 laptops. After deployment of our standard image, which does not contain drivers, we package the full driver installers as provided by the manufacturer. We found that for these new laptops, scrolling…
So was Adobe sucking up to Apple when they decided to use the roman numeral for the version number? Anyway, here’s another common package recipe that I see folks struggling with all the time. <Annoyance>There is no such thing as Acrobat Reader. It has been called Adobe Reader for about 10 years now.</Annoyance> Request Distribution…
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc707727.aspx Basically Microsoft is saying it’s OK to have file-based antivirus software on Forefront Edge products as long as the exclusions listed in the TechNet article are followed. These products are (at of the date this blog was created): ISA 2000 ISA 2004 ISA 2006 IAG 2007 TMG UAG I vaguely remember a few years…
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