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I hope to turn this site into a repository of all things related to MDT and Windows OS Deployment.
If you are interesting in contributing an article, please contact me ( mdt "at" mdt2012.com), and I will get you setup with an account.

Powershell: Add all domain users to a group, but exclude users in multiple OU's

#Import the Module, and silently continue if its already loaded.
Import-Module "ActiveDirectory" -Force -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue

#This is the new group we are creating, we will add the users to this group.
New-ADGroup -Name CorpUsers -GroupCategory Security -GroupScope Universal -Path "ou=Vendors,dc=dot45,dc=mine,dc=nu" -DisplayName "Corp Users" -Description "Members of this group are able to authenticate to the network using Cisco ISE"

MDT 2012 RTM's

z-cfgDefaultUser.wsf

Default User wsf file for injecting reg key

System Center 2012 RTM'd

You can now download the RTM bits on the Volume Licensing Site (http://licensing.microsoft.com), It will be publically announced @ MMS.

Powershell: Offline Inject Updates into wim

Attached is the ps1 script.
Sourced from: http://imagepatcher.codeplex.com/

MDT 2012 new feature: GPO Pack's

Just check out Johan's blog post, great addition for non-domain joined machines.
http://www.deploymentresearch.com/Blog/tabid/62/EntryId/47/Creating-and-...

Powershell: Find Local Admins

http://poshcode.org/2870

This script searches ActiveDirectory for computers. It then queries each computer for the list of users who are in the local Administrators group.

Powershell: Deploy Folder

http://poshcode.org/3018

This will pull a list of computers from AD and copy a folder to that system.

Powershell: User Entitlement Auditor

http://poshcode.org/3068

Script used to perform user entitlement audits based on an XML report containing local groups, members of the local groups and systems that house the local groups. The script joins that data to data containing users and global groups grabbed directly from AD using the Quest AD Cmdlets and outputs the final report in CSV.

Script to move the MDT Progress Bar to the Top Left of Screen

Originally posted: http://supportishere.com/script-to-move-the-mdt-progress-bar-to-the-top-...

In some implementations, the progress bar simply gets in the way. Brian G. wrote up the following script which calls an AutoIt application to move the bar and then move the mouse to update the screen. It worked great for my needs!

Script Download: http://tinyurl.com/movemdtprogress

MDT Boot Media can't connect to share "unknown user name or bad password "

I was attempting to connect a new hp desktop ( Z400 Workstation ) to a MDT share hosted on a Server 2k3 machine.
When booting the target machine into Windows PE to connect to the share, it consistently threw up the following error:

System error 1326 has occurred.
Logon failure: unknown user name or bad password

The issue ended up being the Authentication Method needed to connect to (Server 2k3 / XP) shares; is not supported by default in Windows PE 3.0
The following registry entry needs to be created in the Windows PE OS:

How to create MDT boot media from Windows XP

Extract the contents of the attached zip file, into the "Boot" folder of your mdt share.

Simply run the script from there, just need to have a file named "bootmgr" (no extension)
present on the thumb drive you wish to turn into bootable media.

This script will happily attempt to format network drives, so please use with caution.

SQL SRS – This implementation is not part of the Windows Platform FIPS Validated cryptographic algorithms

Originally posted: http://myitforum.com/myitforumwp/2011/11/04/sql-srs-this-implementation-...

When trying to comply with Federal security standards you start to run into all sorts of problems! You may see the error above when trying to setup SQL SRS in your SQL SRS Trace logs. Additionally when going to the Report Manager URL you may be presented with a 500 Error.

Automated Configuration Manager Secondary Site server installation with PowerShell

Originally posted: http://myitforum.com/myitforumwp/2011/11/04/automated-configuration-mana...

Currently this project is only for Configuration Manager 2007 and Windows Server 2008 R2.You can download installation script files from : http://configmgrpsh.codeplex.com/

Project Description

MDT Deploy OS and MUTE Volume

Originally posted by: Brandon Linton http://myitforum.com/myitforumwp/2011/10/31/mdt-deploy-os-and-mute-volume/
Just a quick VBscript if you want to mute your volume during your OS deployment so you don’t hear random startup and shutdown notifications during your deployment.

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