When Microsoft made the Upgrade Readiness solution freely available to anyone back in the Spring of 2017 it was a major step forward in the monumental task of upgrading Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 computers to Windows 10 and keeping
Error installing Windows ADK
When preparing a new Windows Server 2012 R2 system for a new ConfigMgr 2012 R2 site, I ran into an error installing the Windows ADK. In this case it is version 10; however, I believe the same scenario would apply
ConfigMgr OSD and the HP Virtual Install Disk
A recent customer was having an issue using ConfigMgr (SCCM) to deploy Windows on their new HP ProLiant Gen9 servers. Their existing hardware models and virtual machines worked fine, but the new HP Gen9 models were failing with the following
Unable to find LiteTouch.wsf
Not long ago I was using MDT 2013 to develop a few images. Deploying from the server, whether booting from PXE, CD/DVD, or a USB drive worked fine. However, when I created a stand-alone ISO and extracted it to a
Windows 10 Technical Preview Build 9926 and ConfigMgr
It’s a good day to not be assigned to a customer… Microsoft released Windows 10 Technical Preview Build 9926! I took a moment to download all 4 ISO files (Professional and Enterprise, 32 and 64 bit), inventoried the ISOs to
Microsoft Windows distribution channels
If you’ve worked in an IT department for a mid-to-large company you may have run across Microsoft Volume Licensing. I think a tome could be written on the intricacies of the subject, but here I’m only going to touch on
Drivers and Boot Images
I’m reposting two wiki’s I had written awhile ago. I don’t really use my wiki anymore so I’m moving some content to my blog. Finding drivers in a Boot Image [cc lang=’sql’ line_numbers=’false’] use CM_xxx — All Drivers in a
SCCM Supported Platforms (especially for OS Deployment)
The first time I worked with OS Deployment in SCCM 2007 many years ago I was frightened by the ability to inadvertently deploy an OS to an existing SCCM client. To allow Desktop Techs to reimage an existing computer the