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  Thanks MS! https://connect.microsoft.com/site14/content/content.aspx?ContentID=12463&http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=217606 You have to grab it using your Live ID, but its free and plentiful with updates. Major update is that it deploys Windows 8 now! But here is the rest of the bells and whistles.. Support for Configuration Manager 2012 RC2: This update provides support for Configuration Manager 2012 RC2 releases. MDT 2012 fully leverages the capabilities provided by Configuration Manager 2012 for OS deployment. The  [ Read More ]

Updated 2012-May-14: Found subinacl did not work on Windows 7 x64. Found superior working tool (SetACL.exe) from the following site: http://sourceforge.net/projects/setacl/files/.  I confirmed it worked and updated the script accordingly. This sample script utilizes a Microsoft tool “subinacl.exe”. This can be downloaded and extracted using 7-zip or equivalent (http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=23510). It uses this tool to take ownership of a vital registry key. There are no other pre-requisites to support using this tool. It has  [ Read More ]

In many Organizations, the AD support team is separated from the team in charge of Imaging.  The AD team naturally is protective with their setup and fight any GPO setting that would result in more responsibility to their staff.  So that leaves us in some occasions having to turn to Local Group Policy to apply the settings we want.  I’ve recently come across some great tools provided by Microsoft (very quietly) for Government usage.  [ Read More ]

Using the Wizard Editor is fairly self explanatory for adding simple wizard panes. In 90%+ deployment scenarios, a simple wizard pane including a couple of radio buttons suffice. Here is a simple “Department Name” Wizard Pane, which include 2 radio buttons; “IT Department” and “Sales”. After the Wizard is answered, a “DepartmentName” variable is created and populated with either “ITDEPT” or “SALES” based on the wizard selection: 1 2 3  [ Read More ]

The built-in CustomSettings.INI variables are very useful, but in some occassions they are simply not enough. For instance, the “Model” variable contains the FULL model number (ie. CF-19K4RAX2M). What if I want to create a section breakout for all CF-19 laptops? Here is a method I found to perform this task: 1. First you must tell your “ZTIGather..” script to look out for a new variable, which is ShortModel in  [ Read More ]