Comments for The D-Spot (The Deployment Spot)

Comment on Manage drivers in MDT 2010 by TomB

TomB — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 13:31:44 +0000

Thanx for the clear example,
one thing though got me puzzling for a time :
We have some conflicting drivers so it’s very important it will only load the drivers from the right model, and default it didn’t

It’s important to understand that the parameters (from injecting drivers) have an “additive” effect. For example, if you specify a selection profile of “Everything” (all folders) and then specify “DriverGroup001=Toshiba\Tecra M400” the net result will be everything. But if you specified a selection profile of “Nothing” (no folders) and “DriverGroup001=Toshiba\Tecra M400” then the result would be just the one folder you specified.

Comment on WMI Stability fixes for SCCM clients by Siegmund

Siegmund — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 11:32:45 +0000

Erik,
It’s true, there is no wmi stability fix for XP SP3.
i have updated the post.
cheers

Comment on WMI Stability fixes for SCCM clients by Erik

Erik — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 06:34:35 +0000

For windows xp Sp3 the update is not available

Prerequisites
To install this hotfix, you must have Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) installed. For more information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
322389 How to obtain the latest Windows XP service pack

Comment on Desktop optimisation windows 7 and office 2010 – notes from the field by Erik

Erik — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 17:02:19 +0000

Could you post the powerpoint ?
it seems that in the conversion process some pages got messed up

Comment on Reporting Services Point: invalid class by Zaiyah

Zaiyah — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 04:26:54 +0000

You’ve really impsrseed me with that answer!

Comment on Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2012 Beta 2 Now Available by HP

HP — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 22:14:16 +0000

Hi Ben, any idea on how it can be done via a built in MDT Tool?

Comment on Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2012 Beta 2 Now Available by HP

HP — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 02:01:48 +0000

Hi Ben

My question is how to automatically remove the static IP address(assigned before deployment for the process to take place in not yet MAC registered machines) after deployment?
I could Apply Network properties in the Task Sequence but it might not be best practice when there are 2 or more NICs.

Thanks

PS: We only have MDT as of now, so SCCM and AD DHCP is not available.
HP

Comment on Windows 7 Lite Touch installation with MDT 2010 – Part 1 by Ben De Vriese

Ben De Vriese — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 15:11:03 +0000

The capture image process can be handy when you want to add patches, or if you want to make other modifications to your custom image. This way all you have to do is fire up the Deploy & Capture Task Sequence and do your modifications. No need to do the capture yourself with (g)ImageX.
About the patches; MDT integrates just fine with WSUS, but it’s best practice still to apply patches some times a year to the image itself. Just to speed up the deployment process.

Comment on Server 2008 R2 Slow startup while applying computer settings by Ben De Vriese

Ben De Vriese — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 12:08:40 +0000

You can comment on a MDT blog post.

Comment on Server 2008 R2 Slow startup while applying computer settings by HP

HP — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 16:34:34 +0000

Hi Ben
Sorry to hijack this post, but I wanted to ask you something about MDT 2010, sadly i can’t see a personal message system here.