Month: September 2010

  • Advanced MDT

    My production deployment of the Win7EntX64 image has had a few glitches we are looking into. Two deployments had errors, but two worked more or less as expected. I have started to leverage the VM produced monolithic images by creating custom task sequences to deploy them to other platforms, which is one way we can…

  • Switchcraft EH Series [2]

    We received our order today of the inserts and some plates we had also bought from Jansens to go with them. Here is what one of these looks like straight out of the bag. You will see that the coupler looks like a standard VGA gender changer, and in fact that’s exactly what it is.…

  • Building Windows 7 Enterprise x64 Image [5], Earthquake !!!!

    On Friday I wrote about the difficulty I was having in getting proper support for software for schools making their own Windows images for HP laptops. After a very long and convoluted process involving the IT Helpdesk, Tela Helpdesk and Axon, which is the Tela laptop repair agent for HP, I have finally had my…

  • Building Windows 7 Enterprise x64 Image [4], Thin Client, Home Computer

    Firstly, thin client. The T5720 does have support for TS Gateway but in actuality is unable to run it, when flashed with the latest available XP Embedded image from HP. I am not going to delve too much into this but suffice it to say that with thin clients you are tied to the vendor…

  • Building Windows 7 Enterprise x64 Image [3]

    OK so recapping. Getting on with Windows 7 x64 imaging installing feature apps, then another capture, then testing full deployment. After that it will be customising with 6550b deployment task and testing the outcome on a 6550b. The pre release of Update 1 had problems but the production release looks like working satisfactorily so I…