I’ve now taken the plunge and installed Windows 8 Enterprise on my testing laptop and I’m actually quite happy with it after spending the last few months moaning about my Windows 8 Home Premium laptop! Some of the features are excellent and I’m getting used to not having a Start Menu (adding everything I need … Read more
I’ve been working for Windows language pack lately, particularly in the OSD part of SCCM. So part of that is knowing what the language pack codes are for various languages. The Windows language pack codes are very useful for dictating which language packs get installed during the deployment phase of your task sequence. 2024 Update … Read more
I thought it was time I started to test Windows 8, I’ll keep my opinions to myself on it for now but one of the many things that does not seem to work very well on it is the Windows Activation. Every time I tried to activate Windows it failed and I couldn’t find a … Read more
I’ve been using ConfigMgr for many years now and I’ve used OSD in every version I’ve been involved with, however, for some reason, I’ve never used USMT before. In most cases this is simply because I didn’t need to use it as my only need was for bare metal deployments but, our environment is changing … Read more
This guide will show you what you need to do to capture a Windows XP Service Pack 3 image, which you can then capture and deploy using Configuration Manager.First of all, you need to create a full image that is ready to be captured. This is usually best to install on a virtual machine using … Read more
Bit of a simple one this but very useful…. If you want to add a link into the left sidebar of your windows explorer (which is the bit below): All you have to do is browse to %userprofile%Links and then right-click, then go to New then Create Shortcut. Then follow the wizard to create a … Read more
Like most businesses, we still have programs that rely on Windows XP to run. So, I built a Windows XP Professional image to push out to our slightly older machines where XP is needed to run these older programs. Once created, the image on some machines was working fine, but on some (mostly newer older … Read more
If you are as stupid as me and manage to make a partition active that you shouldn’t have done, so long as you haven’t restarted the machine, there is a quick easy fix to put it right. On the machine, do the following: Go into a Command Prompt Type “diskpart” Type “list volume” Type “select … Read more
A recurring issue that I have is the old Active Desktop in Windows XP. No matter how many times you click the Restore button, you still get the script error. To fix this, you can do the following: Click Start then click Run, type “regedit” and press enter Browse to “HCUSoftwareMicrosoftInternet ExplorerDesktopSafeModeComponents” Double click the value DeskHtmlVersion … Read more
We came across an issue today where the capture media (ISO) that we use to capture our newly created images would not load when running the TSMBAUTORUN.exe file from an explorer box. This was even more strange as it works fine for x86 versions of Windows. After some digging around, its to do with the … Read more
Once you have downloaded and extracted your exe file for Cisco VPN Client, you will notice that there is a MSI file in there, this means that we can use this in SCCM 2007 as a package, or as a catalog item in ConfigMgr 2012. Just package up all the extracted files and use the … Read more
Today I cracked Windows XP OSD, turns out various problems I had with it in the past were down to the AHCI and Co-Processor settings. If you wish to see a full guide on how to sysprep and capture a Windows XP image, click the link below: Windows XP Sysprep Guide