If you are one of those who really don't like using the serial number of the computer itself as computer name, a classic alternative is to manually set counting serial numbers. Starting at 01 or 001 and counting upwards. If you're not using the database, there's no built in feature for this in MDT. Here's a small script that takes care of that. Just add the script in your MDT Task Sequence. Preferably after the Windows installation and before the [...]
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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