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If you manage drivers in Microsoft Deployment Toolkit, you know it can get unwieldy to manage all the drivers in one big folder. I had done it that way for quite a while as I only had 3 or 4 builds of computers that I managed from MDT. These days though I manage about 10 [...]

Information on how to manage drivers from multiple vendors in Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010.

Micrososft Deployment Toolkit Update 1 has been released. I talk about some new features that have helped me out and provided the download link.

Information on customizing the bootstrap.ini file in Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) 2010 to handle multiple deployment shares.

One of the neat things you can do with Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010 is you can customize it to show or hide screens when running through the deployment wizard. Lets have a look at my customsettings.ini file. This file is on my memory stick and installs my Patron computer builds. What I do is block all [...]

One of the neat things you can do with Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010 is you can customize it to show or hide screens when running through the deployment wizard. Lets have a look at my customsettings.ini file. This file is on my memory stick and installs my Patron computer builds. What I do is block all [...]

With a new year comes new images for my MDT servers. At TechDays in Ottawa, I presented the MDT session in the client track on Day 1. Afterwards, I had some great discussions with a few people from major Canadian government offices. One of my challenges has been how to add extra software to an [...]

The new version of the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT 2010) has been released today. MDT is the recommended toolset to automate server and desktop deployments. Having used it for about 2 years I find it the best tool for deploying new Windows computers. Every computer which enters into service in the library system has its [...]

If you are like me, you already have your Vista image built and applied to your MDT installation. Now that Windows Vista SP2 has been released, you are wondering how best to deploy it. With MDT you have several ways to do it. You could apply your image to a computer, install the service pack and [...]

I was getting caught up on some blog reading over my lunch hour and noticed a new post by the Deployment Guys on their blog. If you didn’t know, with Windows 7, you can now boot from VHD; there is even a trick to make Windows Vista boot from VHD. Booting loads the VHD and [...]