Creating an unattended installation of Windows 8 Developer Preview with MDT, can it be done? The answer is yes! However, you will have to make some small changes since MDT is not designed to deploy Windows 8. This guide is written using Windows Server 2008 R2, MDT 2010 Update 1 and Windows 8 Developer Preview x64. The Developer Preview requires you to set the product key type in MDT to Retail. Otherwise, you will get a nice looking error message. [...]
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If you ask Microsoft, it’s absolutely impossible to run MDT (Microsoft Deployment Toolkit) without an Windows Server. However, all you really need is a PXE-boot solution that provides support for booting ISO-files. Here’s a guide how you could do it running Debian on the server. Just remember the clients you deploy with MDT will still be Windows only. This is quite useful if you want to place a small Linux NAS close to the clients at a satellite office to [...]
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The new best practice when it comes to computer names seems to be setting the computers serial number as the name. This is great on vendors like Dell which uses a 5 digit Alpha-Numeric code. However, some vendors, like HP, uses a at least 10 digit Alpha-Numeric code. If you want to shorten this down a little bit in Configuration Manger or Deployment Toolkit, you can define this parameter: OSDComputerName=UKLO-#Right(“%SerialNumber%“,5)# If the computer has the serial number CZC8521WLT this will [...]
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