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Abort PE Startup in MDT 2010 and Return to OS

Posted Friday, 9 December, 2011 by Mike Morawski in MDT, Microsoft, Windows 7, Windows XP

A quick annoyance and one that I always forget. For anyone using MDT getting stuck with MDT loading up time after time and not knowing how to abort the PE load-up here’s the simple trick: In PE environment, hit F8 to load up a cmd prompt. List out the directories (dir) and use command rd [...]

MDT 2010 LiteTouch Runs Task Rather than Showing Wizard

Posted Tuesday, 29 November, 2011 by Mike Morawski in MDT, Microsoft, Scripting and Automation, Windows 7, Windows XP

One issue I’ve seen happen to me many times with MDT is having it fire off to a Refresh install without me even telling it to do that. I realized this only happened in a certain circumstance. Deployment Summary NOT skipped The desktop went through a refresh via MDT The desktop left running at the [...]

MDT 2010 Renaming Folders within Applications Folder

Posted Friday, 11 November, 2011 by Mike Morawski in MDT, Microsoft, Scripting and Automation, Windows 7, Windows XP

After working with MDT 2010 for awhile and having a standardized approach to how I name my application folders, I was a bit ticked at some of the older application folders which didn’t follow my convention. Not a big annoyance but, one that can be fixed rather quickly. I’m sure I’m not the first in [...]

How To Run Script after MDT 2010 Deployment Finish

Posted Tuesday, 12 July, 2011 by Mike Morawski in MDT, Microsoft, Scripting and Automation

I needed a quick way to run a script after certain task sequences. MDT doesn’t really have a way to do this after everything completely finishes. I took my own approach, being a programmer I did modify litetouch.wsf. Here’s what I did, for anyone interested. Open up litetouch.wsf in the deployment share scripts directory, find [...]

MDT 2010 – Renaming Administrator Account (Including for Sysprepping)

Posted Thursday, 9 June, 2011 by Mike Morawski in MDT, Scripting and Automation, Windows 7

If you are using Microsoft Deployment Tools you may be looking for a way to rename the administrator account, here I will show how to rename for a Standard Client Task Sequence and a Sysprep And Capture Task Sequence. Standard Client Task Sequence: Open up your task sequence and find the Eject CD task. Create [...]

‘Dynamic’ Settings per Task Sequence in MDT 2010 through Coding

Posted Friday, 18 March, 2011 by Mike Morawski in MDT, Microsoft, Scripting and Automation

*Update (Oct 2011) – Added known bug and workaround that is fairly important to know about (having code for applicationsXXX and then deselecting all through UI will not actually deselect)* When using MDT 2010 through the LiteTouch deployment wizard, it can prove to be a pain when you remember how much you wish you could [...]

Understanding How MDT 2010 Automatically Determines a Backup Location

Posted Thursday, 10 March, 2011 by Mike Morawski in MDT, Scripting and Automation, Windows 7

I’ve always wondered, since I first saw MDT’s deployment wizard, how exactly it automatically selected a location. Having someone else do my work is nice when needed, but I disliked the idea of not knowing specifics. I never knew exactly what to expect! The documentation in several places never really cleared this up enough for [...]

MDT 2010 Easy Deployment Wizard Sorting (Alphabetically)

Posted Monday, 21 February, 2011 by Mike Morawski in MDT, Scripting and Automation

Updates (3/11/2011) Updated a miscount in the code which would not add a single item in a folder. Preface So I thought I was done with messing around with MDT, packed my stuff, decided to give LiteTouch one last run through. Hm, I feel like installing Adobe Reader, let me just go to the A’s [...]

MIG Recovery and Viewer Utility (Vista/7 – USMT4 USMT3)

Posted Monday, 17 January, 2011 by Mike Morawski in Applications, MDT, Scripting and Automation, Windows 7

Lately I’ve been toying with MIG (Windows Migration Backup) files and I’ve found no helpful viewer programs for looking inside. Fortunately there is a utility, MigRecover.exe, floating around. Unfortunately I don’t know the original developer of this software to give proper credit to, though it is likely developed by Microsoft. This utility has been quite [...]

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