Category Archives: Deployment

PowerShell + Working with applications–custom view

Programs and features will not give you much information about an application. But if we take my post from yesterday and modify it then we can get this. It’s just a oneliner: Get-WmiObject win32_product | Select-Object -Property Name, Vendor, Version, … Continue reading

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PowerShell + working with applications–Find Identifying Number

Often when working with applications you need the Identifying Number to identify the application for uninstalling/installing etc For example, I want to uninstall Safari on machines using MsiExec.exe /X and to use with a logon script or to use with … Continue reading

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MDT 2012 Update 1 update

There is a new version out of the MDT 2012 Update 1, 6.1.2373.0http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=25175 This version has some bug fixes regarding ConfigMgr 2012 and MDT 2012. More info can be found here,http://blogs.technet.com/b/mniehaus/archive/2012/09/19/mdt-2012-update-1-has-been-updated.aspx

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Problem to add and create deployment shares in MDT 2010

I had some problems (major ones) with my local MDT 2010 last night. After a day with lots of scripting against MDT 2010 with PowerShell my MDT 2010 installation just gave me errors when I wanted to add a new … Continue reading

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Office 2010 SP 1

[Updated] Microsoft Office 2010 SP 1 has been released and you can get good information from here, http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/office/ee263913.aspx Downloads and information about changes for admin templates can be found there. If you work with desktops and desktops applications you will … Continue reading

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Disable Java Update

When installing Java in an corporate environment with morecomputers then 1-10, Java Update can be annoying whenyou install Java 32-bit and Java 64-bit on all computers. You can add arguments to your installation, but It will not work as good … Continue reading

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Using Task Sequence as display name during LTI in MDT 2010

For some time now, I have had the _SMSTSORGNAME variable in CustomSettings.ini set to “DXter’s Deployment Solution” as a display name during deployments in my home environments. However, since I do a lot of installations in my home environments, sometimes … Continue reading

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Automated boot image management in MDT 2010 and WDS using PowerShell

One of my favorite features in MDT 2010 is that everything you do in the GUI is executing a PowerShell command that is using the cmd-let’s that comes with the MDT 2010 PowerShell snapin.   This gives excellent opportunities for … Continue reading

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Deployment Share Sorter

When working with MDT folders you want to sort the folders by name to make It look better. This is not a task you do in the Workbench. I found a great script for this by Michael Niehaus at Microsoft. … Continue reading

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Manage a remote MDT 2010 solution

This is a follow up on my last blog post about using PowerShell from a Windows 7 machine against a MDT 2010 solution (server). It’s a how to use the Workbench on the Windows 7 machine to manage a MDT … Continue reading

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