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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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Tuesday, January 05, 2010 11:08 AM

MDT 2010 Error using Sysprep and Capture TS When Booting from Network

Symptoms: When using Microsoft Deployment Toolki (MDT) 2010 to perform SYSPREP AND CAPTURE Task Sequence and the Windows 7 reference computer is booted from the network to execute the Deployment Wizard, MDT displays the following message: Operating System deployment did not complete successfully ZTI ERROR - Unhandled error returned by LTISysprep: The system cannot find the file specified. (-2147024894 0x80070002) Litetouch deployment failed, Return Code = -2147467259 0x80004005 ...
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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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Monday, December 21, 2009 1:36 AM

Windows 7 Deployment: Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010 makes deployment so much easier

It's almost 2am on Monday 21 Dec 2009. I just got out of bed because this thing is whirling in my head: what steps in the deployment process will MDT be involved, vs WAIK? I just had to connect to my lab and find out. And this is the result. I've...
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Sunday, December 20, 2009 9:44 PM

Windows 7 Deployment: Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010 Fills in the Gap

EUREKA!!! I have always been advocating on choosing the WIM imaging technology of Windows 7 because among its benefits, it gives you the flexibility of choosing whatever deployment technology you want - whether heavy touch, lite touch or zero touch. While...
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Friday, December 18, 2009 12:03 PM

Windows 7: Why Bitlocker is important - WinPE bypasses NTFS

I was recording the screen capture of my Windows Automated Installation Kit (WAIK) video and it dawned on me: to get its job done, Windows PE provides full, unrestricted access to NTFS ! This means that files that are secured with NTFS are no longer secured...
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Thursday, December 03, 2009 2:04 AM

Tutorial: Fundamentals of Volume Activation

This demo will provide you insights on the Volume Activation process while deploying Windows ® 7 and Windows Server ® 2008. Link
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