Archive for category Deployment

Automatically Setting Display Resolution

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 [...]

Application Installation Errors using SLShareDynamicLogging

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, [...]

USMT Issues with MDT 2010

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 [...]