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Friday, March 05, 2010 11:46 AM

Microsoft Support: How to customize default user profiles in Windows 7 and in Windows Server 2008 R2

I was asked this question during the Windows 7 Deployment Hands-on Labs: will the Default User Profile be one of the user profile settings that would be backed up and restored by the User State Migration Tool? My reply would be: instead of using USMT...
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Sunday, February 21, 2010 8:03 PM

From Windows XP to Windows 7 - Deployment Considerations

In the same way as my article From Windows XP to Windows 7 - Stuff You Will Encounter for the First Time , here are the considerations for deployment that you need to think about. These are new in Windows Vista, but then again most companies are going...
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Monday, January 11, 2010 10:44 PM

Video Series: Deploying Windows 7 from Windows XP Part 7 - Deploying Windows 7 via MDT Network Share

View video In the last part of this video series, we will take a look at how to run the Deployment Wizard from the Deployment Share The Deployment Share is generated in Microsoft Deployment Toolkit when you first run and configure the Deployment Workbench...
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Monday, January 11, 2010 9:58 PM

Video Series: Deploying Windows 7 from Windows XP Part 6 - Windows 7 Deployment via MDT 2010 Media

View video In part 6 of this video series, we will take a look at how to prepare the MDT media, enabling us to deploy Windows 7 even to branch offices that may not permit us to use the Wide Area Network for deployment. You use the Deployment Wizard of...
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Monday, January 11, 2010 9:53 PM

Video Series: Deploying Windows 7 from Windows XP Part 5 - Importing WIM into MDT 2010

View video In Part 5 of this video series, we will now take a look at how to prepare a WIM file for use in MDT. We will also see how to deploy Windows 7 using MDT on a bare metal machine scenario. jay paloma | 11 jan 2010 | singapore
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Monday, January 11, 2010 9:48 PM

Video Series: Deploying Windows 7 from Windows XP Part 4 - Using MDT to Acquire Windows 7 Image into WIM

View video Let us now shift our attention from Windows Automated Installation Kit (WAIK) to Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010. In Part 4 of this series, we will now take a look at how to acquire a WIM image, this time using the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit...
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Sunday, January 03, 2010 11:41 PM

Video Series: Deploying Windows 7 from Windows XP Part 3 - Using WAIK to Deploy WIM Image

View video In Part 3 of this series, let us take a look at how to deploy a WIM image using WAIK. We will use WAIK commands to partition and format the destination hard disk, then apply the WIM image into the computer. We will then reboot the machine to...
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Sunday, January 03, 2010 10:09 PM

Video Series: Deploying Windows 7 from Windows XP Part 2 - Using WAIK to Acquire Image into WIM

View video This video is Part 2 of the series Deploying Windows 7 from Windows XP . This discusses how to acquire a Windows 7 image using Windows Automated Installation Kit (WAIK). The general steps to perform in this case are as follows: Use SYSPREP...
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Tuesday, December 29, 2009 4:06 PM

Video Series: Deploying Windows 7 from Windows XP Part 1 - Generating WinPE Boot CD on WAIK

View video This video is Part 1 of our series on Windows 7 Deployment from Windows XP . This discusses what could be the first thing that you do on WAIK after installation: generate the WinPE boot cd. The Windows PE Boot CD will be used on these occasions...
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Tuesday, December 29, 2009 12:00 PM

Video Series: Deploying Windows 7 from Windows XP

This is a video series on Deploying Windows 7 from Windows XP using the Windows Automated Installation Kit (WAIK) and the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) 2010 The first time I knew Microsoft Deployment Toolkit was during Windows Vista days. I found...
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Tuesday, December 01, 2009 2:38 AM

My Cheat Sheet: Deploying Windows 7 using WAIK

Woah! It's 2:49am on 01 December 2009 and I'm still awake! I have a .TXT document on my work machine desktop called Deployment Commands.txt . This contains the commands necessary to use Windows Automated Installation Kit (WAIK) to deploy Windows...
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Monday, November 30, 2009 8:26 PM

Windows 7 RTM Issue on Group Policy-enforced Wallpaper

I saw this on a customer 2 months back and here's the resolution from The Deployment Guys. Basically the problem is that wallpapers are properly assigned but in front of them would be a solid black color, essentially making the wallpaper solid black...
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Wednesday, October 14, 2009 10:21 PM

TechNet Webcast: Microsoft Deployment Toolkit Advanced Scenarios (Level 300)

Microsoft Deployment Toolkit includes database integration that uses methods to automate multiple aspects of Windows Vista operating system deployment. The configuration database is a logical extension of the configuration settings that would normally...
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Sunday, September 27, 2009 12:58 PM

Windows 7 Problem Steps Recorder: More than just its name

The Windows 7 Problem Steps Recorder is a useful Windows 7 feature that, according to its name. is useful to record steps to reproduce a problem for handing over to helpdesk folks. But on top of what it was designed to do, Problem Steps Recorded is very...
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Wednesday, July 15, 2009 11:11 AM

Microsoft Assessment and Planning Solution Accelerator 4.0 Released!

The Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit is an agentless toolkit that finds computers on a network and performs a detailed inventory of the computers using Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) and the Remote Registry Service. The data and...
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