There is a great new post over here (http://adventuresinosd.blogspot.com/2011/04/top-10-reasons-to-avoid-windows-7-32.html) at Adventures in OSD on the reasons to avoid the 32-bit version of Windows 7 in the enterprise. I strongly agree with all of his points and made one conclusion – if you are going to run a 32-bit OS then stick with Windows XP 32-bit, [...]
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8
Apr
If you are wondering which architecture of boot image to use during SCCM OSD, the following table may assist you. When picking which boot image to use, it’s important to know there are different rules for Install Packages and Images. Use of the wrong type of boot image may result in failure of the task [...]
Tags: boot image, Images, Install Packages, mdt, OSD, SCCM, x64, x86
28
May
Microsoft have released an update to their fantastic SuperFlow for SCCM OSD – available from http://www.microsoft.com/downlOAds/details.aspx?familyid=C6F88B60-5DD0-40D4-A7E4-8234B4066D27&displaylang=en. This SuperFlow provides information about operating system deployment using preboot execution environment (PXE) service points. The SuperFlow provides step-by-step information about how to configure the enterprise network to support Configuration Manager PXE service point deployments. It then describes the [...]
23
Feb
While using SCCM 2007 R2 to deploy a Windows XP SP3 sysprepped image, I was constantly getting an issue when the imaged machine starts up for the first time and runs the sysprep mini-setup – “Setup was unable to change the password for user account Administrator. Please enter the desired password again.“. After spending some [...]
Tags: 0x0000007B, OSD, SCCM, scsi0.present, Setup was unable to change the password for user account Administrator, sysprep, sysprep.ini, windows xp