Deployment

Creating a JoinDomain account for use with SCCM OSD

Because The join domain account is often visible in your deployment answer file (unattend.xml of sysprep.inf) during the WinPE phase, it is important that this specific account does not have any more permission, than the bare minimum.. I often experience...

Published 09-16-2010 8:53 by Michael Petersen

Using TS variables when running a script under a different account.

Using TS variables when running a script under a different account. One of the features available when running a Task Sequence in Config Mgr R2, is to run a command line as a different user, which can comes in handy in a number of scenarios. There is...

Published 04-21-2010 8:22 by Michael Petersen

Filed under: command line, SCCM, Task sequence

Problem finding the Win7 Time Zone names!

Remember In the good old Windows XP days, when the Time Zone you used when creating your Sysprep.inf/Unattend.txt was just a number you could look up in a Microsoft table (and properly also remember) Well those days are almost gone and now you will have...

Published 02-12-2010 9:26 by Michael Petersen

Filed under: Windows 7, Unattent.xml, Time Zone

The annoyance of none elevated command prompts.

You know how when ever you run something from a prompt in Windows 7 or Server2008 you need to remember to elevate the privileges, or you will get the annoying message that you do not have administrative privileges, which then means you will have to open...

Published 02-09-2010 9:11 by Michael Petersen

Filed under: Windows 7, WAIK

Capture none syspreped image using SCCM (Running imagex from a TS)

One of the limitations of SCCM is the use of Imagex. When you want to capture an image of a computer, this computer needs to be syspreped before capture, or the capture process will fail. To do a capture of a reference image before sysprep, you...

Published 11-23-2009 22:23 by Michael Petersen

Filed under: ImageX, ZTIBackup.wsf, Capture Image

Handling HAL switching during XP deployment (no BSOD /0x07 error)

Because of the issue with different HAL’s (Hardware Abstraction Layer) used by XP, it is necessary to make some changes to both Sysprep, and the Kernel files during deployment.. I thought I'd supply my HAL changing script, as it does not require...

Published 09-11-2009 7:53 by Michael Petersen

Filed under: Deploy XP

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