Author Archives: Andrew Barnes

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About Andrew Barnes

A Scripting and Deployment Specialist.

MDT 2012: DomainOUs List

Posted on February 11, 2013 by Andrew Barnes

There’s a feature in MDT that displays a dropdown list of Domain OU’s in the Lite Touch deployment wizard. There are 2 ways to set it up. First, you can create a list of OU’s in the customsettings.ini by using … Continue reading →

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MDT 2012: Missing network drivers during LTI boot

Posted on February 4, 2013 by Andrew Barnes

I was contacted last week by a former colleague who is just getting into MDT. He was missing drivers on one model and received this common error page during his boot sequence. Naturally, I had loads of resources to share but … Continue reading →

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Test Lab: Base Configuration – Hydration Kit: Custom Default settings

Posted on January 29, 2013 by Andrew Barnes

When using the Test Lab:Base Configuration Hydration Kit, you may want to use your own custom domain and server names. After all, it’s your testlab and you might spend a considerable amount of time working there. It makes sense to … Continue reading →

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Test Lab: Base Configuration – Hydration Kit released.

Posted on January 24, 2013 by Andrew Barnes

I’ve released my first Codeplex project today. It’s available at http://testlabhydrationkit.codeplex.com Hydration Kit – Test Lab: Base Configuration for Windows Server 2008 R2 The code is Microsoft Deployment Toolkit standalone media (Hydration Kit) that will configure each of the servers … Continue reading →

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LTI/ZTI Deployments: Add roles and features

Posted on October 10, 2012 by Andrew Barnes

I had a post drafted on adding roles and features, to begin a series of posts on server role deployment. However, Michael Neihaus has been kind enough to write up a great article on his blog. You can read it … Continue reading →

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MDT: Running a single PowerShell Cmdlet from a Task Sequence Step

Posted on October 8, 2012 by Andrew Barnes

Sometimes I want to perform small tasks that don’t really require a script creation. In those cases I use a Run Command Line task sequence step. It was always easy for cmd.exe and it’s just as easy for PowerShell.exe(once you … Continue reading →

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Testlab: Test Lab Guides

Posted on October 5, 2012 by Andrew Barnes

During the start-up charter of my Scriptimus Ex Machina(yeah, pretentious but I had a plan) it was my intention to create in-depth guides on Test Labs as they are the foundation of all IT, from training to Proof of Concepts. … Continue reading →

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MDT: RTFM

Posted on October 4, 2012 by Andrew Barnes

There is a help file/manual that comes with MDT. It’s called Microsoft Deployment Toolkit Documentation Library. It’s located in the start menu. This documentation is immense. It covers everything from getting started, walkthroughs, App-V, SCCM, Scripting. (and it’s free) I … Continue reading →

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LTI/ZTI Scripting: MDT Scripting Template

Posted on October 3, 2012 by Andrew Barnes

It’s back to VBScript today. I received an email from a reader last week. He had an issue with a deployment script. We thought it would be a good idea to share the solution. For me, a chance to review … Continue reading →

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LTI/ZTI PowerShell: Outputting Transcript from PowerShell Console

Posted on October 2, 2012 by Andrew Barnes

While testing a Lite-Touch deployment, I had an issue with a PowerShell script running in an application package. The error flashed by on the console screen so fast that I could not read it. To top that off, the log file … Continue reading →

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