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  • MDT Task Sequence: Inline Surface Pro Pen Pairing without Image Modifications

    Derek Bannard February 3, 2018     Comment Closed     MDT

    Surface Pro tablets are great, for the most part. One of the most useful addons you can get for it is the Surface Pen. It’s great, powerful and useful… only if you remember to pair it to the tablet before giving it to the end-user. I present to you the automated(ish) way to inject the pairing files into the OS…

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  • Adding DHCP server support for PXE BIOS and UEFI Booting

    Derek Bannard July 4, 2017     Comment Closed     DHCP, MDT, Powershell

    There are numerous websites with really helpful articles on how to add PXE booting for both BIOS (Legacy) and UEFI devices. In some cases you are directed to add (to enable UEFI, and thus disable BIOS) or remove (to disable UEFI and re-enable BIOS) an entry on your DHCP server.  Specifically the Option 060, with a value of “PXEClient”. While…

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  • MDT 2013 Update 2: Adding Domain OU’s with Friendly Names

    Derek Bannard November 14, 2016     Comment Closed     MDT

      Adding computers to the domain is easy if you want them to all end up in the (default) computers OU, or pre-populate the computer account in active directory. For those of us that like to choose the computer OU on the fly when imaging, entering the OU manually is very tiring and mistakes are often made; at least for…

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  • MDT 2013 Update 2 not using ADK for WinPE Boot

    Derek Bannard November 14, 2016     Comment Closed     MDT

      When you have a matching Windows OS in the deployment share, MDT uses the BOOT.WIM from that source.  When they don’t match, MDT uses WINPE.WIM from the ADK that is installed. While this is generally preferable, you may want force it back to using the Microsoft ADK for WinPE booting.   You will need to manually edit the Settings.xml…

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