IntroductionImportant: This feature is only available in the technical preview for now.Most SCCM customers are trying to limit the number of servers they need for the SCCM environment. And for many good reasons. Having a server, on each remote office to support clients can be very expensive for some customers.Most of the workloads can be provided by other desktop clients by making them distribution points or enabling services like BranchCache or Peer Cache. But one important function that required a full server Operating Systems is the option to provide PXE boot.So, If you have been doing OS deployment using SCCM…
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Today I got a call from a customer that was playing around with OSD in System Center Configuration Manager and the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT). He wanted to know where he could find a list of all the Time Zones Names, so he could change the default “Pacific Standard Time” to something else. But where can you find a list of all the “TimeZoneName”?Instead of using some old reference list on TechNet or MSDN, you can simply use the good old Time Zone Utility (Tzutil), that can be used to view and manage available time zones.You can run Tzutil from…
Last week I had the pleasure of doing a joined presentation with Jens Ole Kragh about Windows as a Service (Windows 10) at the System Center User Group Meeting in Copenhagen. The session covered some of the things that should be conciddered if you want to implement Windows 10 in your Enterprise. Our Slidedeck is now available on SlideShare: SCUG.DK – Windows as a Service – September 2015 from Ronni Pedersen Should you have any questions regarding deployment Windows 10, don’t hesitate to contact me. Slides from all the SCUG.DK sessions can be found here: http://www.scug.dk/2015/09/08/slides-from-the-september-2015-user-group-meeting/ And here on Microsoft Docs:…
The Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) 2013 Update 1 is now available on the Microsoft Download Center. Significant changes in MDT 2013 Update 1: Support for the Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit (ADK) for Windows 10 Support for deployment and upgrade of Windows 10 Support for integration with System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager SP1 with the Windows 10 ADK (see this post on the Configuration Manager Team blog for more information on using the Windows 10 ADK with Configuration Manager) Detailed list of some specific changes in this release: Support for new Enterprise LTSB and Education editions of Windows 10…
Microsoft has released Windows 10, and all over this little blue planet we call earth, Administrators are starting to deploy Windows 10. Microsoft has now released a complete set of Administrative Template (.admx) files for Windows 10: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=48257 If you want to learn more about Windows 10 deployment check out these links: Getting Started with Windows 10 for IT Professionals Windows 10 on Channel 9 /Enjoy. +Ronni Pedersen
The Microsoft Campus Days 2014 event is only two months away, and I’m proud to announce that I’ll be speaking at this great conference again. It’s a 3 day event packed with more than 100 technical sessions, covering everything from the On-premise datacenter to what can be deployed and managed from the cloud. This year will be the one of most exciting Campus Days event so far. It’s schedule just a few weeks after Microsoft TechEd in Barcelona, where lots of new products is expected to be announced. Unlike previous years, none of the sessions will be recorded and published…
Allmost every time I get a call from a customer, or want to answer a question in the TechNet Forums about OS Deployment, I always start by asking for logfiles. There are MANY log files when it comes to ConfigMgr 2012 R2, and most of them are normally located in the same folder every time you need them. But when you are troubleshooting OS Deployment using, one of the most common log files you almost always want to check, is the SMSTS.log. And this log file is moving around depending on the phase of the deployment process. There are plenty of blogs…
The scheduled breakout session on “Deploying Windows 7 using MDT 2012 and ConfigMgr 2012” with Johan Arwidmark, wil be replaced with the following session: Title: Inside Windows 8 – Deployment Tools Update Abstract: What’s new in Windows 8 Deployment – Join Johan Arwidmark guiding you through the new features, including Windows 8 WDS, ADK, WinPE 4.0, Performance Assessment and much more. Speaker: Johan Arwidmark | Chief Technical Architect | Knowledge Factory System Center User Group Meeting – October 2011 http://scug.dk/content/SystemCenterUserGroupMeeting-October2011.aspx
If you wish to deploy Windows 7 32-bit using Configuration Manager, and you need to enable AERO during deployment, you needs to add a “Run Command Line” step to the Task Sequence with the following command: WinSAT.exe formal If you do the same while deploying Windows 7 64-bit, the step will fail. The is due to the File System Redirector, and the fact that the Tack Sequence is running in 32-bit context. To workaround this minor issue, make sure that you select Disable 64-bit file system redirection, on this step.
Sunday morning I’m leaving for TechEd Europe in Berlin. One of the biggest Microsoft events in Europe for IT Pro’s. As a Microsoft MVP, I’ve been invited to work as a Microsoft Product Expert in the System Center Configuration Manager booth. This is a true honor for me and I’m really looking forward to get to work in the booth again. When I’m not working in the booth, I plan to see some of the great Deployment, ConfigMgr v.Next and Forefront Endpoint Protection sessions, presented by some of my favorite speakers. Here are some of the sessions I’m really looking…