Category Archives: MDT2013

Disk Wipe Wedge for use with Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (Any release)

By | November 28, 2019
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1\Create a folder under the <DeployRoot> named “peFiles” or similar. 2\Populate the folder with the promptForDiskWipe.bat and unattend.xml files from this gist: promptForDiskWipe.bat: https://gist.github.com/brianfgonzalez/dcedc971176ba87551b10ef9f40c332e unattend.xml: https://gist.github.com/brianfgonzalez/d93e4160b03b46885ca187e6bc2fa549 * Click on RAW and then right-click and save-as to save the actual files. 3\Update your MDT boot media to call the promptForDiskWipe.bat script before starting a deployment (litetouch.vbs).… Read More »

Run a MDT Deployment Share From Media Without Creating Seperate Media Share

By | July 19, 2018
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Found this cool trick to run a regular MDT Deployment share from media. Add a “media.tag” file to the \Scripts directory. Format and set the flash drive as bootable. NTFS for legacy and FAT32 for UEFI (Use rufus if larger than 32gb). Create Deploy\ folder on root of Flash Drive. Copy contents of Deployment Share… 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 »

Copy an MDT Deployment Share to a USB without building a Media Share

By | March 27, 2017
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*Updated to support both x86/x64 boot wims. This script copies an MDT Deployment Share to a USB drive and basically converts it to a media share in the process.  You must edit and update the “DrvLetter” variable. Please the batch file beside the “Deploy” folder. @setlocal enableextensions enabledelayedexpansion @echo off REM Variables that require updating SET… Read More »