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Trying to install ConfigMgr 2012 RTM? Make sure you have the right SQL…
Now that Configuration Manager 2012 RTM is available, people will certainly start installing it, both in their labs and in production – and will start finding out that the SQL version check in the...
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Troubleshooting MDT 2012 Monitoring
I mentioned a while back that I wanted to do a blog post talking about how to troubleshoot the new MDT 2012 monitoring feature for Lite Touch deployments, but first I had to actually describe it. If...
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Encoding sensitive information in CustomSettings.ini and Bootstrap.ini
One of the questions I received after presenting a session at TechEd Europe was about encoding any clear-text passwords that you might place into the Bootstrap.ini file, so that if someone looked at...
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MDT 2012 Update 1: Dealing with in-use files when capturing user state
A thread on the MDTOSD mailing list hosted by http://www.myitforum.com website was talking about how some user state data, such as PST files that Outlook has opened, could be lost during the user state...
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MDT 2012 Update 1: Always applying images with ImageX
Another change you might notice in MDT 2012 Update 1 is that Lite Touch deployments never use SETUP.EXE. That doesn’t result in any real change in functionality, as we still do the equivalent steps:...
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MDT 2012 Update 1: PowerShell 3.0 support
In MDT 2012 RTW, we supported PowerShell 2.0 in a task sequence, which worked well for what was released at the time. But with Windows 8, Windows Server 2012, and Windows PE 4.0 (the version in the...
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MDT 2012 Update 1: ConfigMgr 2012 SP1 CTP support
The MDT 2012 Update 1 release is primarily intended to add support for deploying Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012. For ConfigMgr 2012, it’s the SP1 release that adds similar support. So if you want...
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MDT 2012 Update 1: DaRT 8 support
In MDT 2012 RTW that released back in April, we included support for DaRT 7, making it easy to add the DaRT components to Lite Touch boot images. See...
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MDT 2012 Update 1: Merged ZTI and UDI task sequences
Since we released MDT 2012 Update 1 Beta 1 a few weeks ago, I’ve received a few panicked e-mail messages from people asking “what happened to the UDI task sequence, it’s gone.” Don’t worry, it’s still...
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MDT 2012 Update 1: Monitoring for ConfigMgr
In MDT 2012, we added support for DaRT integration into an MDT Lite Touch boot image, as well as a new monitoring feature that integrated with DaRT to make remote control into Windows PE easy. See...
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MDT 2012 Update 1: Orchestrator support
Another new feature in MDT 2012 Update 1 is the ability to call System Center 2012 Orchestrator runbooks from within a task sequence. This works with Lite Touch deployments, ConfigMgr 2007, and...
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MDT 2012 Update 1: Customer experience improvement program
If you have installed MDT 2012 Update 1 Beta 1, you might have noticed a new wizard page in the MSI installer: When enabled, this option enables us to collect more information about how MDT is being...
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MDT 2012 Update 1: UDI “Build Your Own Pages”
One of the challenges with previous versions of the UDI wizard was extensibility. With MDT 2010 Update 1, there was no way to add a new page. With MDT 2012, you could do this by writing C++ and C#...
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MDT 2012 Update 1 is coming soon!
You probably noticed that Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 RTM’d today (see http://windowsteamblog.com/windows/b/bloggingwindows/archive/2012/08/01/windows-8-has-reached-the-rtm-milestone.aspx and...
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One journey ends, another begins
A long time ago, I worked in corporate IT. One day I started looking for new challenges and interviewed with Microsoft for a job in Microsoft Consulting Services, helping customers with their Windows...
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Displaying the task sequence name
I was talking to some people yesterday at the TechMentor conference in Redmond and about MDT, and somehow during the conversation I got a mental image of the task sequence progress dialog that I...
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Copying $OEM$ files and folders with MDT 2012 Update 1
I mentioned in the blog post at http://blogs.technet.com/b/mniehaus/archive/2012/07/21/mdt-2012-update-1-always-applying-images-with-imagex.aspx that MDT 2012 Update 1 no longer uses SETUP.EXE to...
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Speed up MDT task sequences in Configuration Manager
Here’s a quick suggestion for speeding up MDT-created task sequences in ConfigMgr 2007 or ConfigMgr 2012: Find your MDT toolkit files package source folder. In the “Scripts” folder inside that folder,...
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Automatically configuring the ConfigMgr console for MDT 2012
As part of the MDT installation process, you need to run the “Configure ConfgMgr Integration” wizard to add the MDT components into the ConfigMgr console and database. But what if you want to automate...
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Revisiting LTI deployment wizard application selection profiles
A few years back, I posted a blog at http://blogs.technet.com/b/mniehaus/archive/2010/06/11/selection-profiles-with-the-lite-touch-deployment-wizard.aspx describing how to modify the Lite Touch wizard...
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