I came across Mary-Jo Foley’s post “Windows 7 compatibility problems? Microsoft might have an app (or service) for that” on the All About Microsoft blog and thought I’d offer my $0.02. Based on my experiences in the field, including a successful Windows 7 Rapid Deployment Program, I have to say the compatibility story for Windows [...]
I recently needed to be able to automatically set the display resolution during operating system deployment. I couldn’t get the resolution to change by setting the XResolution and YResolution MDT properties so I put together the following solution. After following a thread on a myITforum mailing list about the same issue I put together this [...]
A quick note about an issue I recently encountered. I started seeing random application installation failures in the deployment task sequence with entries in BDD.Log like: ################ ZTIApplications 18/09/2009 1:00:35 PM 0 (0×0000) Dependent entry: {24db38a6-bb6d-4c05-acad-25682702ccb7} ZTIApplications 18/09/2009 1:00:35 PM 0 (0×0000) ################ ZTIApplications 18/09/2009 1:00:35 PM 0 (0×0000) Using a local or mapped drive, [...]
I’m working on a Windows XP to Windows 7 migration project (I think we’ll all be working on those for the next couple of years!) using a standalone MDT 2010 solution. Overall it’s been working great and the improvements in MDT over each version have resulted in a really impressive deployment platform. I’ve got a [...]
I recently implemented a Microsoft-based Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) solution. With the release of Windows 2008 R2 you now have a pure-Microsoft VDI stack. It includes all of the previously-named Terminal Services components and a bunch of new functionality to enable the two key scenarios of Personal Virtual Desktops and Virtual Desktop Pools. Microsoft’s proof-of-concept [...]
