I am often frustrated when I deploy machines using VMware. Not because it is VMware, but because it is so slow when using the console. By coincidence I found out that VMware actually has WDDM drivers installed/copied during VMware tools installation. So this led me to investigate if these drivers could speed things up in […]
This is a how to guide on installation of BGInfo and ThightVNC. I know there are probably better ways of doing this, but this worked fine for me. First you need to download BGInfo and ThightVNC. http://www.tightvnc.com/download.php http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897557 Then you install ThightVNC on a test computer. You need to do this in order to get […]
Today I tired to add a TightVNC installation to WinPE and I discovered that when you define a program inside a package and add it to a task sequence as an Install software step it will fail with error 0x00000032. If you convert this error message and have a lookup in net helpmsg you will […]
Had a funny experience with a VM when installing windows server from an ISO file. I had to start a console session from another server and re-mount the ISO from the local drive. Look at the error message when you disconnect the ISO. There is no disk in the drive…. I was also curios if […]
This is cool. Start your lite touch installation as normal. As soon as you are finished booting up WinPE hit our good old friend F8. Close the wizard in the background and navigate to x:deployscripts, type the following: cscript LiteTouch.wsf : Hit enter and then you can see what happens during the deployment.
Almost every admin I know enable command line support in WinPE. What they probably don’t know is that it is possible to display the network access account password in clear text. This is by design since WinPE is not member of a domain and need to use the password to access resources in SCCM. This […]
I often work in multiple domain forests. There is often a wish to use only one task sequence for everyone. One problem with this is that you need to have unique step for each domain in regards of the domain join process. And the big question is how do we identify where the computer is […]
Let’s say you want to add a registry key while you are in windows PE. In order to achieve this we have to load the appropriate registry hive from the files under %windirsystem32config. Under the config folder there are these files that are interesting: Software – This is the HKLMSoftware hive System – This is […]