I took a couple of minutes out Today to pull the amount of code is offered for free by implementing MDT 2013 from Micosoft. Here is the powershell I wrote up for querying up the number: Get-ChildItem -Path C:\HydrationCM2012R2\DS\Scripts\ -Recurse | ` Where-Object {$_.Extension -eq “.WSF” -or $_.Extension -eq “.VBS”} | ` foreach{(Get-Content $_.FullName).Count} |… Read More »
Download Link: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=40796 What’s changed: http://download.microsoft.com/download/B/F/5/BF5DF779-ED74-4BEC-A07E-9EB25694C6BB/Whats%20New%20in%20MDT%202013%20Guide.docx Major points: 1. No XP or Win Server 08 support. 2. Uses WinPE 5.0. 3. Deploys Win 8.1. http://www.microsoft.com/en-US/download/details.aspx?id=39982 Luckily, the MDT 2012 Update 1 link is still alive as well. http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=25175 /Brian G
Our Toughbooks ship with the Wireless Switch in the OFF state. So when you take the unit out the box and image the unit, it will not install the required WWAN, WLAN, Bluetooth drivers. So to remind Deployment Technicians to Turn on the Wireless Switch, I built this Wizard screen using the OpenSource “MDT Wizard… Read More »
I was prompting a tablet user for a password in WinPE prior to performing a recovery routine. To get Windows OSK to appear was a lot more difficult that it should be. In my search for a portable on-screen keyboard, I found FreeVK. Its free and works in WinPE. The only caviat is that it… Read More »
Once powershell was supported in WinPE, I converted my .VBS search and apply script over. I add this script into my startnet.cmd, so it is started after initializing WinPE. Here are the steps of the script: Prompts the user asking them to verify that they want to run recovery. Prompts for recovery password if “$sRecoveryPassword”… Read More »
