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Experimenting with WIMBoot using MDT 2013
With the release of the Windows 8.1 Update, there is a new mechanism available for running Windows called Windows Image Boot, or WIMBoot for short. For details about what this is and how it works, see...
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Useful deployment links
As we were going through our TechEd North America deployment pre-conference today, we showed a lot of links for pages of interest. Here is a list of those (at least the ones I remembered):Windows 8.1...
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Enterprise Mode Internet Explorer
With the release of Windows 8.1 Update, enterprises have a new tool at their disposal for addressing issues with older web sites. This new feature, called Enterprise Mode IE, effectively enables IE 11...
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MDT 2013 Update 1 Preview: What’s Changed
In case you missed it at http://blogs.technet.com/b/msdeployment/archive/2015/03/02/microsoft-deployment-toolkit-2013-update-1-preview-now-available.aspx, the new preview of MDT 2013 Update 1 is now...
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Windows 10 Pre-Upgrade Validation using SETUP.EXE
For those looking planning to do in-place upgrades to migrate from Windows 7, Windows 8, or Windows 8.1 to Windows 10 using System Center Configuration Manager task sequences (described here), you...
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Windows 10, MDT 2013 Update 1, and HideShell
Four blogs in a week. In case you haven’t noticed yet, my team has started blogging to http://blogs.technet.com/WindowsITPro, so be sure to check that location too. (We announced the release of MDOP...
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Adding features (including .NET 3.5) to Windows 10
Windows 10 has created a new way of installing features that aren’t included in the operating system image, kind of like the situation with .NET Framework 3.5 in Windows 8 and Windows 8.1. Similar,...
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Adding .NET Framework to Windows 10 using MDT 2013 Update 1
If you didn’t read through my last post at http://blogs.technet.com/b/mniehaus/archive/2015/09/01/adding-features-including-net-3-5-to-windows-10.aspx, read through that for some background. At the...
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Windows 10: Reducing the disk footprint
An OverviewA while back, a blog post at http://blogs.windows.com/bloggingwindows/2015/03/16/how-windows-10-achieves-its-compact-footprint/ talked about the things that Windows 10 does differently in...
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Removing Windows 10 in-box apps during a task sequence
A couple of years ago, Ben Hunter posted a script on the Deployment Guys blog that showed how to remove the in-box modern apps from a Windows 8.1 installation. That exact same approach works with...
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Seeing extra apps? Turn them off.
A few weeks ago, I published a script to help remove the in-box apps from a Windows 10 image. Some people have reported after running this script they are still seeing apps on the machine, things like...
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Updated Remove Apps Script, and a Workaround
I’ve updated the script attached to http://blogs.technet.com/b/mniehaus/archive/2015/11/11/removing-windows-10-in-box-apps-during-a-task-sequence.aspx to address a couple of issues:Fixed a bug that...
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Using the Windows Store for Business with MDT 2013
The Windows Store for Business was made available to everyone back in November, corresponding to the Windows 10 version 1511 feature upgrade that was released at the same time. For those that aren't...
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What’s Changed in MDT 2013 Update 2
Looking at a comparison of the files in MDT 2013 Update 2, here’s a quick overview of the changes in the scripts when compared with those in MDT 2013 Update 1:DeployWiz_Initialization.vbs. Change the...
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Build Windows 7 images faster by patching them faster
I’m sure you’ve noticed that when building a new Windows 7 SP1 image that there are a lot of updates that need to be installed. And these installations can take a while, whether pulling those updates...
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There is never enough automation
When I first started in IT, I worked with a team of people to do very repetitive tasks as a DBA. Fortunately, a few of those people had the right idea: With enough automation, we can eliminate the...
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Building a provisioning package to upgrade to Windows 10 Mobile Enterprise
With Windows 10 Mobile, we’ve released a new SKU called Windows 10 Mobile Enterprise that has a few extra features. This SKU is available as a benefit to customers with Software Assurance for Windows....
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Windows 10: Reducing the disk footprint
An Overview A while back, a blog post at http://blogs.windows.com/bloggingwindows/2015/03/16/how-windows-10-achieves-its-compact-footprint/ talked about the things that Windows 10 does differently in...
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Removing Windows 10 in-box apps during a task sequence
A couple of years ago, Ben Hunter posted a script on the Deployment Guys blog that showed how to remove the in-box modern apps from a Windows 8.1 installation. That exact same approach works with...
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Seeing extra apps? Turn them off.
A few weeks ago, I published a script to help remove the in-box apps from a Windows 10 image. Some people have reported after running this script they are still seeing apps on the machine, things like...
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