Author Archives: Andrew Barnes

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About Andrew Barnes

A Scripting and Deployment Specialist.

MDT PowerShell: Connect to MDT Function

Posted on September 8, 2014 by Andrew Barnes

  Todays post is a time-saver function I wrote to connect to MDT shares. It allows me to just type Connect-MDT to import the module then enter to the MDT PSdrive. It discovers the location of the MDT module(from the registry) and uses the Restore-MDTPersistentDrive … Continue reading →

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The malware apocalypse for Windows XP begins in just 1 day! Or does it?

Posted on April 7, 2014 by Andrew Barnes

It doesn’t seem like 12 years since Windows XP and Office 2003 first arrived but now their time will draw closer to the end in less than 2 days. At this point Microsoft will drop Enterprise support for the products potentially … Continue reading →

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LTI/ZTI Scripting: Add computer to an AD Group

Posted on April 19, 2013 by Andrew Barnes

I’m currently doing some intense SCCM 2012 training so I’ve not been posting or in the forums recently. I’ve still been responding to emails though. I received an email from a reader earlier this week. He wanted to add the … Continue reading →

Posted in MDT 2010, MDT 2012, SCCM, Scripting | Tagged , , , , | 24 Comments

Hotfix rollup released for Windows 7 SP1 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1.

Posted on March 13, 2013 by Andrew Barnes

Big news in deployment right now. Microsoft has release a hotfix rollup is for Windows 7 SP1 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1. So it’s kinda like Service Pack 1 and a half. There are 4 flavours 2008R2 Itanium/x64 and … Continue reading →

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Deployment Terminology

Posted on March 11, 2013 by Andrew Barnes

There are a many terms used to describe the deployment of operating systems and its associated practices. Here are some of the most popular ones and an explanation of when to use them. Deployment. The process of applying operating system images to … Continue reading →

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MDT: Refreshing computers with Static IP Addresses

Posted on March 6, 2013 by Andrew Barnes

No DHCP? No Problem In this scenario, you have a computer with static IP Address assignments that you wish to maintain during a REFRESH. There’s a Task Sequence step called Capture Network Settings. This runs the script ZTINICConfig.wsf that can … Continue reading →

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MDT: Automating Static IP during Bare metal boot

Posted on March 5, 2013 by Andrew Barnes

No DHCP? No Problem In this scenario, the requirement is to boot a lite touch boot image with a static IP address, where is no DHCP available. You can use a custom answer file (unattend.xml) to configure your static IP settings … Continue reading →

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MDT: Manually configure a Static IP Address during LTI Deployments

Posted on March 4, 2013 by Andrew Barnes

No DHCP? No Problem. Part 1. I’ve been working on the various methods of setting Static IP addresses during Lite Touch deployments and decided to space the articles out over the week. Today we’ll cover the easy ones. If you … Continue reading →

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LTI/ZTI Deployments: Injecting drivers during deployment

Posted on February 25, 2013 by Andrew Barnes

One of the best reasons implementing MDT 2012 is the way it manages your drivers. I had a customer who was using WDS only for deploying their Windows 7 images. They told me that the deployment would halt for around … Continue reading →

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MDT 2012: Skipping Deployment Wizard Panes

Posted on February 18, 2013 by Andrew Barnes

This is an updated version of the skipping deployment wizard pages table. This is one of the most popular articles on Scriptimus Ex Machina as it covers most of what is required to automate Lite Touch deployments. Readers use it as a … Continue reading →

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