A quick post about a little detail I noticed here the other day. I don’t know if you have noticed it, but there is a little difference on the file system in the RTM version of Windows 10 and the 1511 version. If you download both ISOs from Microsoft (RTM and 1511) and mount them […]
This blogpost is based on an evil thought I have had. After all, I have been a pentester for several years, so «evil» ideas are a part of my mindset. Let’s say I want to plant a backdoor on future machines, where would I put my backdoor? Inside the WIM that is used to deploy […]
Been a while since I have posted anything related to deployment, but I have thought a long time about this post. The reason why I have hesitated blogging about this is the legal issues about it. I have finally concluded that this is okay to publish, since the information is already available on the Internet […]
During deployment the logs are saved different locations depending on the process that creates the log files. Take a look at the list below and hopefully it can spare you a couple of minutes. Scenario Location WinPE before formatting HDD X:WindowsTempSMSTSLog WinPE after HDD is formatted X:SMSTSLog C:_SMSTaskSequencelogssmstslog Windows OS during Task Sequence execution C:_SMSTaskSequenceLogsSMSTSLog […]
This started as a little try and fail project. I wanted to create a powershell script that could export all the drivers inside a folder in the deployment workbench so I could just have all my drivers in the workbench forever and export them when I needed them. This way I could easily build up […]
I´ve been working with MDT 2010 lately, and I seem to forget some basic stuff from time to time. I´m making this post to document some of the stuff I usually end up googling. Pause Task Sequence in MDT Create a Run Command Line task and insert the following cscript.exe %SCRIPTROOT%LTISuspend.wsf Some variables for customsettins.ini […]
I often hear from customers wanting to deploy software, but their business is to small to leverage System Center Configuration Manager. They ask me for advice on how to deploy software. Should we use Group policy or what? I then ask them if they have tried to use Microsoft Deployment Toolkit. They often answer: But […]
How do we find them on computers. Model: wmic computersystem get model Make: wmic computersystem get manufacturer to get make If you need the UUID/GUID you use this one: wmic csproduct get uuid In order to get the mac addresse you could use the old getmac command in cmd.
I just created a MDT documentation script. I will continue to develop this script and add new functions to it. I also added a little video demonstrating the script in Action. MDT Documentation Script v0.6 If you are interested you can find it in our download section. http://msitpros.com/?page_id=763 I will continue to add updates […]
Could not find a list of this so I decided to create a list with version numbers that I have. WAIK: 1.0 version number ?? – First Vista release WAIK: 1.1 version number 6.0.6001.18000 – Windows Vista SP1 WAIK : 2.0 version number 6.1.7100.0 – Windows 7 WAIK : 3.0 version number 6.1.7600.16385 – Windows […]