Category Archives: MDT 2010

SCCM PowerShell: Connect to SCCM Function

Posted on September 9, 2014 by Andrew Barnes

    Today’s post is another time-saver function I wrote to connect to SCCM. Again, it is designed to eliminate the need to hard code the module path and/or the SCCM primary site. It allows me to just type Connect-SCCM to import the module … Continue reading →

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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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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 →

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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: 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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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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