If you're looking to deploy the latest version of Windows 10 1703 (better known as the Creators Update) as a fresh install, please check out this post. This post is designed to walk through installing and configuring Microsoft Deployment Toolkit and to create a Task Sequence to upgrade to Windows 10 1703 from a previous version of Windows. … Continue reading Walkthrough: Upgrading to Windows 10 1703 (Creators Update) with Microsoft Deployment Toolkit
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Walkthrough: Building a Windows Server 2016 Reference Image with Microsoft Deployment Toolkit
In a previous post I walked through how to install MDT, it's dependencies, and how to create a reference image to deploy. In this post I'll be doing the same thing but centred around building a Windows Server 2016 image using a Hyper-V virtual machine. Installing & Configuring Microsoft Deployment Toolkit and Dependencies. We'll be using Microsoft … Continue reading Walkthrough: Building a Windows Server 2016 Reference Image with Microsoft Deployment Toolkit
Walkthrough: Building a Windows 10 1703 (Creators Update) Reference Image with Microsoft Deployment Toolkit
Following on from a previous post which covers some queries and issues I had when first deploying Windows 10 1703 (better known as the Creators Update) this post is designed to walk through installing and configuring Microsoft Deployment Toolkit to build a reference image of Windows 10 1703 using a Hyper-V Virtual Machine. Installing & Configuring Microsoft Deployment … Continue reading Walkthrough: Building a Windows 10 1703 (Creators Update) Reference Image with Microsoft Deployment Toolkit
Delving into disabling OneDrive
UPDATE 11/07/2017: After testing the method below on Windows 10 1703, I found that it wasn't working as it did with 1607. To disable One Drive and remove the One Drive folder from the Navigation Pane of Windows Explorer, enable the group policy item: Computer Configuration/Policies/Administrative Templates/Windows Components/OneDrive/Prevent Usage of OneDrive for file storage and … Continue reading Delving into disabling OneDrive
PowerShell: Image Factory for Microsoft Deployment Toolkit and Hyper-V
In a previous post I wrote about my Image Factory for MDT, powered by Hyper-V and PowerShell. This post will serve as a change log and documentation page, as my previous post was more about how the script is written as a reference. My Image Factory script is also available to download from the TechNet … Continue reading PowerShell: Image Factory for Microsoft Deployment Toolkit and Hyper-V
PXE Booting with WDS for UEFI and BIOS Devices
In a previous post (PXE Booting for Microsoft Deployment Toolkit) I mentioned that I would talk about how to set up PXE to deal with VLANs. To be honest I forgot all about it until someone on twitter reminded me - many thanks for the reminder! A lot of what I'm going to go through in … Continue reading PXE Booting with WDS for UEFI and BIOS Devices
Some Notes On Building a Windows 10 1703 (Creators Update) Reference Image with Microsoft Deployment Toolkit
With the release of Windows 10 1703 (Creators Update) ISO on the Volume Licensing Service Center, I've recently been looking into using the "final" code with Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) to build reference images and discover what issues are present. This post is a round up of differences and issues I've found with building and … Continue reading Some Notes On Building a Windows 10 1703 (Creators Update) Reference Image with Microsoft Deployment Toolkit
PowerShell: Removing UWP apps from Windows 10 1607/1703
Update 03/08/2017: I've re-written much of this post to answer some questions that have come up and to help clarify the process. Thanks to Jörgen Nilsson over at ccmexec.com, with his original post that inspired me to write this one. When deploying Windows 10 1607/1703 you might want to remove some of the included UWP apps … Continue reading PowerShell: Removing UWP apps from Windows 10 1607/1703
Windows 10 1607/1703 Start Menu Customisation – Update
Here's a quick update on an option I missed in my previous post about how to customise the Start Menu and Taskbar for new Windows 10 1607/1703 installs. Update 02/05/2017: This also works with Windows 10 1703 (Creators Update) The method that I used in my previous post would not be suitable for other environments … Continue reading Windows 10 1607/1703 Start Menu Customisation – Update
PowerShell: Fully Automated Image Factory for Microsoft Deployment Toolkit
UPDATE: This post is old and intended as a walk through on how my original script was put together for those wishing to learn PowerShell. For the finished, up-to-date script please check out this post and you can download the script from my TechNet profile. Recently I've been looking into automating my image build process … Continue reading PowerShell: Fully Automated Image Factory for Microsoft Deployment Toolkit
