I had a bit of time this weekend to play around with the latest Windows 8 Consumer Preview release. One of the first things I wanted to try and do was capture a reference image and redeploy it with SCCM 2007 R3. Firstly I tried to do this using the Capture task sequence media (Capture [...]

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I had a need for an accurate timezone and specific date format during Windows PE session when using SCCM OSD. To change timezone: At the start of the task sequence, run a command like “reg.exe import AUS_EST.reg” This is simply an export of HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\TimeZoneInformation. In my case, the contents of AUS_EST.reg looked like: Windows Registry [...]

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An oldie but a goodie – this came about again when creating Windows 7 WIM files for SCCM. It really does save a lot of time – otherwise you would need to deploy your image, make changes to the registry and then recapture. This process is much quicker! I use the DISM tool from the [...]

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