Author Archives: Brian Gonzalez

UEFI Enable on Panasonic Toughbooks in Windows PE

By | March 28, 2018
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UPDATE 04-03-2019: For newer Toughbooks you must also install SID0040 https://pc-dl.panasonic.co.jp/dl/docs/077586?dc%5B%5D=002001&lang=003&no=41&oc=001042&p1=218&p2=2180633&score=1.0&sri=13615846&trn_org=2 This setting change uses the Panasonic “WMI BIOS CONFIGURATION TOOL”: ftp://ftp.panasonic.com/computer/software/wmi_tool_software.zip The sid0021 driver is required for this tool: http://pc-dl.panasonic.co.jp/dl/docs/076632?dc%5B%5D=002001&lang=003&no=18&oc=001039&p1=117&p2=1170603&score=1.0&sri=12295314&trn_org=2 Here is a package containing both the tool, driver and batch script to enable UEFI in WinPE, but other BIOS settings can be changed using… Read More »

Internet Explorer start tile not working with the PowerShell Import-StartLayout

By | March 26, 2018
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Here is a working configuration for importing a “Internet Explorer” tile to the Start screen using the Import-StartLayout PowerShell cmdlet.  This was tested on Win 10 1703. Here is my exported start layout.  I had to manually switch out the %APPDATA% variable with the %ALLUSERSPROFILE% to get it working. <LayoutModificationTemplate xmlns:defaultlayout=”http://schemas.microsoft.com/Start/2014/FullDefaultLayout” xmlns:start=”http://schemas.microsoft.com/Start/2014/StartLayout” Version=”1″ xmlns=”http://schemas.microsoft.com/Start/2014/LayoutModification”> <LayoutOptions StartTileGroupCellWidth=”6″… Read More »

Clean-up Before Sysprep And Capture To Reduce The WIM File Size

By | February 21, 2018
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Wally Mead (DeploymentBunny) wrote a great script that accommodates his image factory.  It performs several clean up operations before running sysprep.  I run it manually on all of my Virtual Machines prior to running a Sysprep and Capture routine. I’ve seen this script reduce a WIM file by 10GB. Jump to Wally’s github and save… Read More »

Running a PXE Server in Windows 10 in less than 10 minutes

By | February 16, 2018
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UPDATE – 04-03-2019: try serva https://www.vercot.com/~serva/ instead of tftpd32, it supports uefi. Download the “Portable” version of the Tftpd32 software. http://tftpd32.jounin.net/ All of my source files: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1FAIPPtIogFOk_uklAS_D7YxLrxI36Hly My TFTPROOT folder contents and source Files were pulled from Windows 10 ADK installation. C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\Assessment and Deployment Kit\Windows Preinstallation Environment\amd64\Media => TFTPROOT\bootmgr.exe TFTPROOT\Boot\en-us\bootmgr.exe.mui TFTPROOT\Boot\en-us\memtest.exe.mui TFTPROOT\Boot\Fonts\*.* TFTPROOT\Boot\Resources\bootres.dll… Read More »

Dynamically assign MDT’s DeployRoot rule based on IPAddress001’s 2nd or 3rd octet.

By | May 26, 2017
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No DefaultGateway = No Problemo… Oracle VirtalBox‘s built-in DHCP server does not pass a DefaultGateway to clients. This introduced a challenge when attempting to dynamically assign a “DeployRoot” in MDT’s BootStrap.ini rules file. The standard process relies on using the DefaultGateway variable (i.e. https://deploymentbunny.com/2012/04/21/back-to-basic-customsettings-ini-explained/). To work around this limitation, I found a quick and easy… Read More »