Category: 10804

If you’d like to go to MMS but the price of the Summit pass is beyond you don’t worry as someone is going to win a free pass. How do you enter this free competition? Easy just send an email as detailed below: Secure Vantage Technologies (SVT) is pleased…(read more)

From the MMS 2010 News page: A new download is available on the MMS 2010 site to help schedule your time at MMS 2010. The document provides a session listing grouped by timeslot, with a list of the topics being presented in that slot. To plan your schedule…(read more)

The HealthcareMDT2010 is now available for download which includes the x64 version of SMS Trace (many thanks for the heads up on this one from my good friend Johan Arwidmark in his post on this). Details and link below: Overview Healthcare MDT 2010 is…(read more)

From Maik Koster’s blog: In the Last Post I showed you, how you can easily create a custom Setting in the MDT Database and use it in your custom scripts. In the example shown we added a custom Setting called “ CollectionID ” to the Database to enable…(read more)

From TechNet Edge : Recently, the SPECOPS Software roadshow "Changes, Challenges and Choices When rolling out Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7" made its way to the Microsoft Alpharetta office in the US. The featured speaker was Jeremy Moskowitz…(read more)

Congratulations to Maik Koster on the release of V1.0 of his MDT FrontEnd: Finally it’s done! I’m very happy to announce the release of version 1.0 of the MDT Web FrontEnd . It took a bit longer than expected since the last Beta from November 2009 but…(read more)

Why are items like mapped drives and network printers not migrated using MDT 2010 and USMT 4.0? [15/01/10] Contributed By: Cliff Hobbs [MVP ConfigMgr/ SMS] If you're attempting to backup items like mapped drivers and network printers using MDT 2010…(read more)

Full Title: Network drives and network printers are not migrated when you use Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010 with the User State Migration Tool (USMT) 4.0 SYMPTOMS You back up the user state on a client computer by using Microsoft Deployment Toolkit…(read more)

Saw this (courtesy of Michael Niehaus), over on the RunAs Radio site: “Richard and Greg talk to Mitch Garvis about the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010. MDT 2010 helps you manage your installs of operating systems, drivers, applications and more. You…(read more)

From the TechNet Edge blog: Senior developer Mike Niehaus had previously demonstrated how to deploy Windows 7 natively using Configuration Manager 2007 . Now, he leads you through the same process using the recently-released Microsoft Deployment Toolkit…(read more)