by DeploymentSwede | Mar 25, 2011 | Deployment |
Yesterday we set up an Windows Server 2008 R2 on a HP DL380 G7 to run Symantec Altiris for deployment. However, whatever we did, it just didn’t work! The computers couldn’t PXE-boot. After a lot of googling and testing, we finally found the problem: On the...
by DeploymentSwede | Feb 20, 2011 | Deployment |
Java has become a little bit of a nightmare to deploy and looking for answers on Google doesn’t make you much wiser since people states all kinds of things in different forums. Therefore, I’m going to make my best to clarify how it works in Java 6 (1.6.0). Previous...
by DeploymentSwede | Feb 18, 2011 | Deployment |
On my thread about deployment on virtual hosts, someone wondered if it works on the Xen Hypervisor, the answer is… no. MDT is not able to detect XenServer as an Hypervisor. However… there’s another way get it work: Execute the following command on a...
by DeploymentSwede | Feb 17, 2011 | Deployment, Windows |
Yesterday Microsoft released Service Pack 1 for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. SP1 does not present any major challenges in deployment. However, here’s a short guide to how-to deploy it using silent install switches: Downloading SP1 stand alone installer...
by DeploymentSwede | Feb 11, 2011 | Deployment, Virtualization |
If you’re going to deploy servers using Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010(MDT 2010) you might want to add some special settings for virtual machines (VMs). For XenServer, check this post. You can add a lot of useful settings in each Task Sequence but if you’re...