Sysprep Ad Infinitum

August 12th, 2009 | Posted by Jason in Configuration Manager | Operating System Deployment - (0 Comments)

I was at a customer this week doing a one-day, whirlwind tour of Operating System Deployment (OSD) in ConfigMgr. They were specifically interested in server deployment so we set up a build and capture task sequence for Server 2003 SP2. Everything went well until the Prepare OS task which runs sysprep. It just wouldn’t finish; …
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Windows XP Drivers Do Not Install During a Task Sequence

March 12th, 2009 | Posted by Jason in Configuration Manager | Operating System Deployment - (0 Comments)

Well, I’m not actually that old, but I did learn a new trick today. I’ve been fighting the drivers is an OSD XP deployment task sequence for an HP dc5800. The drivers just wouldn’t load. The TS copied them down to the system properly, the DriverPaths registry value was updated properly, but the drivers wouldn’t …
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Suppress Plug and Play UI

January 8th, 2009 | Posted by Jason in ConfigMgr 2007 | Configuration Manager | Operating System Deployment - (0 Comments)

Microsoft just released a new hotfix that allows you to suppress the plug and play UI in Windows XP and Server 2003: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/938596. I haven’t played with it yet, but it sounds like it has potential when deploying new systems using ConfigMgr or MDT. Sometimes, there’s that one device you either don’t care about or …
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ConfigMgr OSD Quirk

June 25th, 2008 | Posted by Jason in Configuration Manager | Operating System Deployment - (0 Comments)

I just hit an interesting snag when deploying XP using source files and a build & capture and create task sequence. In the process of customizing the task sequence, I forgot to change the User Name and Organization name for the Apply Windows Settings task. Not a big deal except that the username defaults to …
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