Sysadmin Lab

My lab environment and my findings

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  • The_Old_Reader

    So Google decided to shutdown Google Reader which I've been using for years and I'm very happy with it. Since my personal domain is on Google Apps, I find it useful to get Single Sign On, I always keep it as a pinned item in Chrome and I like the fact that when I mark it as read on my iPhone/iPad, it gets marked as read on all my devices. So I'm trying to find an alternative since they will [...]

  • Sometimes you don't care that the sequence has failed in MDT. It can be several scenarios for this. Either, a user aborted the installation or maybe you are testing different installations and just don't care about the old stuff. However, something that can be really annoying in MDT 2010 is that you, to able to restart the installation either need to delete the folder MININT on C:\ or format the whole disk by pressing F8 and running Diskpart in Windows [...]

  • Completely regenerate the boot images

    When do you need to Update Deployment Share? 1. When you add/remove network or mass storage-drivers which you want injected into your Windows PE boot image. 2. When you modify Bootstrap.ini 3. When you modify the boot image settings, e.g. scratch space size, custom background image... So when should you use the option "Completely regenerate the boot images."? Well, the answer is that you actually never need to use that option. But sometimes, it could save you some time. If [...]

The_Old_Reader

So Google decided to shutdown Google Reader which I've been using for years and I'm very happy with it. Since my personal domain is on Google Apps, I find it useful to get Single Sign On, I always keep it as a pinned item in Chrome and I like the fact that when I mark it as read on my iPhone/iPad, it gets marked as read on all my devices. So I'm trying to find an alternative since they will [...]

Format and Partition Disk on WinPE Boot

Posted by DeploymentSwede On February - 17 - 2013 0 Comment

Sometimes you don't care that the sequence has failed in MDT. It can be several scenarios for this. Either, a user aborted the installation or maybe you are testing different installations and just don't care about the old stuff. However, something that can be really annoying in MDT 2010 is that you, to able to restart the installation either need to delete the folder MININT on C:\ or format the whole disk by pressing F8 and running Diskpart in Windows [...]

Truths about Boot files in MDT 2010/2012

Posted by DeploymentSwede On February - 4 - 2013 0 Comment
Completely regenerate the boot images

When do you need to Update Deployment Share? 1. When you add/remove network or mass storage-drivers which you want injected into your Windows PE boot image. 2. When you modify Bootstrap.ini 3. When you modify the boot image settings, e.g. scratch space size, custom background image... So when should you use the option "Completely regenerate the boot images."? Well, the answer is that you actually never need to use that option. But sometimes, it could save you some time. If [...]