This is a follow-up to a previous post: Building a Windows 7 Image. Why you may ask? Well, mainly for testing. If you are moving off of Windows 7 to […]
Per User Login Message
Challenge A common challenge with Windows 10 Upgrade task sequences is handling user logins if there are any restarts during the task sequence. After the restart happens, a user can […]
Task Sequence One-liners
New page added: Task Sequence One-Liners: Task Sequence One-liners page. The page is also available as a sub-menu of the top-level Script FTW! menu of this site. What is a One-liner?A […]
Windows Installer Rollback During OSD
Windows Installer provides a nice rollback feature that kicks in when a fatal issue occurs during the installation of a [Windows Installer-based] application installation. This rollback feature gracefully restores the […]
Building a Windows 7 Image
Although Windows 7 end of life is rapidly approaching (see Windows lifecycle fact sheet for details), a lot of organizations are still deploying it. There’s nothing wrong with this in […]
Injecting .NET Framework 3.5 During a Windows 10 Task Sequence
The following is a step by step guide to adding the .NET framework 3.5 to a System Center Configuration Manager (ConfigMgr/SCCM) OSD task sequence that deploys Windows 10. You’ll find […]
Cross-site Images in ConfigMgr
If you create your OS images using ConfigMgr one potential issue is that the ConfigMgr client agent is embedded in your image. In and of itself, this isn’t a huge […]
Boot Image Backgrounds
To me aesthetics (even if I can’t spell that without the help of a spell-checker) are very important; basically, if it “looks” shoddy, haphazard, or thrown together, it probably is. This […]
OSD Information Script for ConfigMgr
Here’s my version of an OSD information tattoo script for ConfigMgr. There are a few others out there, but I didn’t like exactly how they worked or they weren’t really […]
Boot image selection in ConfigMgr
Boot image selection during PXE in System Center 2012 Configuration Manager (ConfigMgr) is something that comes up from time to time in the forums as well as every-day discussions. This […]