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Archive for January, 2010

Editing CustomSettings.ini in MDT

Posted on January 26, 2010, by Todd, under Microsoft Deployment Toolkit.

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.

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Technorati Tags: Customizations, customsettings.ini, Deployment Wizard, MDT, Task Sequence

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Exchange 2007 to 2010 Migration

Posted on January 10, 2010, by Todd, under Exchange Server.

An upcoming project I have at work is to migrate our Microsoft Exchange 2007 Server to Microsoft Exchange 2010. There is no direct upgrade from 2007 to 2010, and my Exchange 2007 server is running Windows Server 2003 x64.

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Technorati Tags: Exchange Server, Migration, Upgrade

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Pause Task Sequence in MDT 2010

Posted on January 6, 2010, by Todd, under Microsoft Deployment Toolkit.

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 image which doesn’t have a great silent install. What I had been doing was building the machine using MDT, then when it was done, adding unfriendly software, patches, etc. to the build after. This is a pain as you have to then Sysprep the image, boot into a Windows PE environment then capture the image using ImageX.

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Technorati Tags: Building Images, Image Boot, MDT, MDT 2010, Microsoft Deployment Toolkit, Task Sequence

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