Category: Deployment
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Deploy Your Apps From Intune
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End Of Days 2003: The End is Nigh!
In a couple of days we will be saying goodbye to 2014 and ringing in the New Year 2015. Simple math should show you that if you are still running Windows Server 2003, it is long since time to upgrade. However here’s more: When I was a Microsoft MVP, and then when I was a…
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The Kobayashi Maru of Desktop Deployment
A couple of years ago I was asked to write an article on desktop deployment. Back then Windows 7 was reasonably new, and there was a lot of chatter about the fact that you could not upgrade from a Windows XP machine directly to Windows 7. Recently a lot of people have asked me about…
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Windows 8: Keeping it Clean!
While I am usually fond of the extra apps that Microsoft puts into Windows 8, I know that for most IT environments they will be more of a hassle than anything. The following is the PowerShell script that Ben Hunter (SOLUTION ARCHITECT, Desktop – Microsoft Corp.) uses to remove the built-in applications. Of course, you…
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Fair Winds and Following Seas…
For the last seven years I have been in awe of Michael Niehaus and the work that he has done on Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (nee Business Desktop Deployment). When I met him five years ago I was in awe, and am glad to have had the opportunity to get to know him over the past…
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Everything you Wanted to Know and Ask about Windows Deployment!
For those of you who are interested in deploying Windows (and with 707 days left until #EndOfDaysXP who isn’t?) there are a couple of incredible webinars coming up that you definitely should not miss! Stephen Rose will be holding a couple of discussions with MDT Product Manager Michael Niehaus (if you have ever heard me…
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Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2012 Released!
Today at MMS Microsoft released MDT 2012. MDT 2012 is the newest version of Microsoft Deployment Toolkit, a Solution Accelerator for operating system and application deployment. MDT 2012 supports deployment of Windows 7, Office 2010 and 365, and Windows Server 2008 R2 in addition to deployment of Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2003,…
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Mastering Windows 7 Deployment–a Review
This week I was teaching the Deploying the Optimized Desktop class for the Microsoft Partner Network, and one of my students asked me if there was a good book on the Windows Automated Installation Kit. While I am not aware of a book specific to that product, I told them about the book Mastering Windows…
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Command Line Switches
One of the skills that you will need to know to be good at Desktop Deployment using Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT 2010) is the ability to discover and maintain a list of command line switches that you use frequently. At the request of some of my students, I am going to post a few of…
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End of Days for Windows XP.
Quite a number of people have asked me why I continue to tweet the number of days until Microsoft ends support for one of it’s most successful operating systems ever, Windows XP. Especially knowing that we seem to be a long way off – today is Friday August 12, 2011 and we are 969 days…
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Windows MultiPoint Server 2011: The future of the classroom and so much more!
One of the things I love about coming to events like TechEd is that I am able to see and learn about new products, as well as meet new friends and reconnect with old ones. On the second day of TechEd 2011 I had the opportunity to do all three simultaneously! I interviewed Dean Paron…
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The Wonder that is TechEd
The quiet of the Exhibitor Hall is disturbed by the sounds of preparation. To my left there is a crew frantically working to fix something with a carpet. There is some hammering, more yammering, and the sounds of carpet tape being unfurled. To my right there are two security agents talking, but they are too…
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Get on the Bus!
For the third year in a row the Springboard Bus Tour will hit the road leading up to TechEd. If you have never met the bus you are missing out, because it delivers expert advice, great learning, and huge career benefits to IT Pros. It delivers answers to questions you may have been having about…
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Creating a Multi-OS Deployment Point with MDT!
Hey folks, I know for months you’ve been on me because the screen shots in my Multi-OS Deployment Share post were lost. Today I am glad to say that I have created a video of it for the DPE team, and am glad to share it with you here! Remember, this video creates the deployment…
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The Student Has Become The Master!
Monday evening I attended the monthly user group meeting of the Wellington Waterloo IT Pro User Group (http://www.wwitpro.com/) in Kitchener, Ontario. The topic for the evening was called Windows 7 Deployment as presented by Sean Kearney (yes, THE Sean Kearney, a.k.a. The Energized Tech, a.k.a. (the former) Friday Funny Guy!) from SWMI Consulting Group and…
The World According to Mitch 