The company teased a new tool that will allow users to easily install Windows 10 cleanly, stating the tool will come to Insiders first and will likely be in the Windows 10 Anniversary Update. Microsoft has announced (rather vaguely) that…
We are running System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012r2 to manage our environment. Currently we have about 200 VMs operating on 5 hosts. We recently ran into an issue with VMM that requires us to build a new cluster and…
I was recently asked about patching in regards to Microsoft System Center Orchestrator because I was able to demo how to automate certain processes in regards to patching, and I was asked “Well, what about if I wanted to automate…
I have spent a lot of time working with MDT and figuring out quite a bit of command switches in order to manipulate the deployment outcome. I listed them below. I will keep adding to this list, and if anyone…
Windows has a limitation of only allowing a machine to be sysprepped 3 times until you have to redeploy the operating system clean. I have spent a greater part of the past few years creating images, so I have run into…
With the expansion of Hyper-V and Virtual Machine Manager, I have worked with quite a few people that are either mixing their virtual environment with VMware and Hyper-V or moving off of VMware all together. Intermixing System Center products does…
I recently wanted to create a task sequence in MDT that would build all of my Hyper-V hosts and map the iSCSI connection and connect the storage on its own. After digging around and testing several methods, I thought that the best…
Companies are starting to take a look and utilize Bitlocker more often now. I have had many customers ask me about Bitlocker and what the easiest way to deploy it companywide would be. Usually when I am having discussions with…