When deploying machines with MDT 2013 Lite Touch or ConfigMgr 2012 R2 you eventually come across a scenario when not all drivers install, and your device manager looks something like the following screen shot.  To troubleshoot the missing drivers you need to know how MDT 2013 or ConfigMgr 2012 R2 goes about injecting drivers. Their process is quite similar but it’s not identical between the solutions, so in this post you find two sections:

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Earlier today I needed to take a snapshot of the screen while doing a deployment in the WinPE phase. This was on a physical machine, so either I had the option of hooking up a screen capture hardware (Epiphan DVI2USB3), or, simply use the little known screenshot feature in ZoomIt.

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Earlier today I noted a particularly interesting tweet in the stream. It was from Keith Garner, claiming that the latest Rufus version supported UEFI with NTFS based volumes.

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Once again I will present at the IT / Dev Connections event which takes place at the Aria Resort in Las Vegas on September 14 – 17, 2015.

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This has simply been one of those really great weeks. I’ve been doing volunteer work for the Gathering 2015 (#TG15, the biggest LAN party in Norway) as an AV technician. During the party all events on the Main stage and TV Studio are streamed live, and also recorded. For the recording storage we used a Windows Server 2012 R2 server with lots of disks, and of course storage spaces. For backup purposes the team wanted to sync the content to a FTP archive, and at some point I said, I can probably write a PowerShell script for that 🙂

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Yesterday, the April fools day, marked the 11th Microsoft MVP award for me. I’m very proud to be part of the MVP community, and always, I stand humbly before all the men and women spending time — most often their spare time — helping out others.

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You probably noticed there is no ISO download of Windows 10 Enterprise Technical Preview build 10041 (at least not yet), but with a little bit of PowerShell you can create one, allowing for clean installs.

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Here are the slides and links from TechConnect 2015 in Cyprus. Big thanks to Microsoft and COMPUTRAIN for arranging this great event!

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Earlier today I was doing a presentation at the TechConnect in Cyprus, and I got a tweet from one in the audience about the script I was using for running the data deduplication processes on my machine. So here it is: Happy Deployment, Johan

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Don’t miss the great podcast about how Microsoft is using SCCM internally, with Brad Andersson and Kelly Pranghofer.

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When setting up ConfigMgr 2012 R2 in a lab and test, or any type of Proof-Of-Concept you want to automate everything. Luckily the Cumulative Update (CU) 4 download has support for unattended setup: Just add the /Unattended switch to the extracted download and you're good. Note: Don't use the /unattended switch in a production environment […]

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As you probably seen the MDT 2013 Update 1 preview was released on March 2, the official announcement by Aaron Czechowski lists the below list of features:

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A new feature in USMT 10 (from the Windows 10 ADK technical preview) is it's ability to migrate 3rd part drivers (and apps) via the new provisioning packages in Windows 10. I'm not sure why anyone would migrate drivers this way (yet), but it least it caught my interest enough to play around with the […]

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Yesterday was a good day! I finally could lay may hands on not only one, but two Samsung 840 EVO 1TB SSD MSATA cards, and went about to install them in my HP 8570w machines. I bought them at Fry's in Seattle (well Renton, really), and because of their "Match Internet Price" deal, I did […]

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Here you find the links, slides and sample files from my Deploying Windows 10 in the Enterprise and OS Deployment at LEVEL 500 sessions at NIC 2015, in Oslo, Norway, NIC 2015, great as always 🙂   Video Recordings of the sessions OS Deployment at LEVEL 500http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7dA1uZrrVo Deploying Windows 10 in the Enterprise http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ROpOl5QTnY Slides […]

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Haha, run into a tweet from "nohandle" earlier today that made me laugh out loud. Enabling PowerShell Hardcore Mode 🙂 Enabling PowerShell Hardcore Mode Hardcode Mode basically means that you configure PowerShell to shutdown the computer if you type in a command that does not exist. Note: do NOT do this on any production machine, […]

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Here are the link from mine and Kent Agerlund's session earlier today at the SCU2015 conference in Irving, TX. Batman and Robin 🙂   Links from Kent's demos. Shutdowntool http://blog.coretech.dk/kea/new-version-of-the-coretech-shutdown-tool/ Dashboard http://www.coretech.dk/dashboard (trial includes the update report) Kenny's blog on notifications http://scug.be/sccm/2015/01/20/windows-7-configmgr-2012-balloon-tips-setting-it-more-then-5-sec-to-display/ SQL Recommendations http://blog.coretech.dk/kea/system-center-2012-configuration-manager-sql-recommendations/ Ola Hallengren http://ola.hallengren.com/ Steve Thompson blog http://stevethompsonmvp.wordpress.com/ OSD Links (my […]

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Earlier this morning the technical preview of Windows 10 ADK was released. A nice little 6 GB install if you install features or 2.7 GB you only download the bits (Yes I know the UI says 3.6 GB, but no. The download is only 2.7 GB 🙂 Here is the download: Windows 10 ADK Technical […]

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The development of MDT 2013 is still hopelessly behind the technical preview releases of Windows. Until that happens you can still apply some custom hacks to the current version. Like the previous Windows 10 preview builds, in Windows 10 build 9926 you still need to add updated DISM files to the boot image (until the […]

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The Intel NUC  devices have turned out to be a great machine for a small but efficient Hyper-V host. The challenge is that Intel doesn't get that, and in fact block their network adapter device drivers for Windows Server 2012 R2 (with some exceptions). In this post you learn how to fix this properly: When […]

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