Tag Archives: MDT 2010

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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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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Application folders in MDT 2010 + PowerShell

One nice thing with MDT 2010 is the possibility to make folders in the Application folder. I like a nice structure of things and with PowerShell I can make my structure for MDT 2010 Applications, Operating Systems and Drivers in … 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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MDT 2010 + PowerShell from Windows 7

I like to do everything from my Windows 7 machine. One administration point with all of my scripts. So I wanted to access my MDT 2010 server thru PowerShell from It too. As default this will not go. You need … Continue reading

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First step with MDT 2010 and PowerShell

My very first step was to add the Microsoft.BDD.PSSnapIn. Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.BDD.PSSnapin   And then I could make a new PSDrive New-PSDrive -Name MyMDT -PSProvider MDTProvider -Root \\psdc01\DeploymentShare$   When I have a PSDrive I can access it thru cd MyMDT: … Continue reading

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MDT 2010

Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010 got released yesterday. You will find the MDT 2010 site here. Download it and start to deploy   Technorati Tags: Microsoft Deployment Toolkit,MDT 2010

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