Last few months I've been faced with installing a 2008 R2 server with MDT 2010 several times. Sure, I'm fully aware of the Hydration Kits out there which are awesome... so this is still pretty basic stuff. Anyway, it was pretty boring to look up my notes every time so I decided to write it down here so I could do it as fast as possible, and also to show colleagues how to get started with MDT easily. I'm sure [...]
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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