Being able to deploy Operating Systems with ConfigMgr 2012 is one of the main reason why companies invest in the product. When deploying an Operating System, you may want to change from the default language preferences...
Now that we’ve got the option to easily enable a Prestart command in the boot image, why not extend the functionality of the OSD capabilities even more. There are many great front ends for OSD in ConfigMgr out...
The purpose of this post is to describe a way of implementing the Replace scenario in ConfigMgr 2012. I’ll cover some bits more in detail and some others on a more high-level scale. So let’s go through the...
The new Start screen that came with Windows 8 gives users a fast way to access their applications and to search for anything they’d like. The way that Microsoft has pinned applications on the Start screen for the...
Now that Microsoft has released Windows 8.1 and ConfigMgr 2012 R2, lets look at how we can deploy Windows 8.1. In this post we’ll not be integrating with MDT, instead it will be a native ConfigMgr OSD scenario...
Instead of automating the way a new computer is being named during OSD with ConfigMgr 2012 SP1, you might want to be prompted instead and have to enter the name manually. There are numerous ways of doing this and most...
On the 18th of October, Microsoft released Windows 8.1 to the market. You can now grab the bits from VLSC (Volume Licensing Service Center) and start to create a reference image. In this post we’ll be creating the...
When doing OSD in ConfigMgr 2012 SP1 you always have to deal with drivers. When dealing with drivers, you should ask yourself if you’d like to trust the Plug and Play method that ConfigMgr 2012 SP1 uses, or if you...