Making IT Happen
This guide assumes that you use Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT build 8443) or Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) capturing Windows 10. You capture a task sequence, and the capture computer does...
We recently had put together a SCCM Build and Capture task sequence to update our images up to Windows 10 version 1709. We copied the install.wim from the sources folder of the...
If you have started a task sequence in Configuration Manager and you hit a problem, the last thing you want to do is to have to go through the reboot process back...
If you are a regular user of downloaded CAB driver packs then you are probably using something like 7-Zip to extract them. Well there is an alternative way of extracting the CAB...
If you have custom built images that you are using in your Configuration Manager OSD environment, you may find that keeping them up to date is a real problem. If you are...
If you are looking for HP driver packs then you can use the HP Driver Pack Matrix below: Notebooks & Tablets Windows 10 64-bit Windows 8.1 64-bit HP Elite x2 1012 G1 Tablet...
So today we built a new custom Windows 10 image on a virtual machine and created our new SCCM capture media from the very latest version and every single time we ran the...
We have been looking into getting our OSD process to automatically change the computer name to what we want it to be for a while now but never really had much luck...
You may have seen our previous post about adding a local user to a machine during SCCM OSD using a “Run Command Line”. Well in this guide we will show you how...
If you want to add a local machine user to your deployed machine during your SCCM OSD process then you can do this using a standard “Run Command Line” step. Guide So,...
If you are using SCCM for your operating system deployments across different countries, then you may want to set the time zone within the task sequence. To do this, you can take...
If you have recently upgraded your SCCM to version 1511, you will have had to have upgraded your ADK to the Windows 10 version. However, did you first note down your customisation...
If you are using System Center Configuration Manager for Operating System Deployment (OSD) then you may come across an error like this even after a successful PXE boot:
We recently came across an issue where our Configuration Manager Operating System Deployments (OSD) were failing at the activating Windows step. Having spent far too much time looking into why it was doing this, we eventually found out that it was our proxy servers that were blocking access it the Microsoft activation servers.
We today ran into an issue where our SCCM OSD PXE boot was not working. It was coming up with a very confusing message stating: “A required device isn’t connected or cannot...
If you want to restart SCCM OSD Task Sequence from within Windows PE without having to reboot the machine and start the PXE boot sequence again, you can quickly press F8 to...
If you have a new model of computer and you have PXE booted it and you do not get a network connection or IP address, then this is because the network card...
We are pleased to announce the release of our new small tool for Configuration Manager – DP PXEBoot Speed Up. This is a very simple and basic tool that allows you to...
