This is something that nine out of ten customers ask and it is a common discussion on forums also. So how do you place the computer in a specific Organizational Unit in Active directory during your deployment? I’m basing this post on the fact that I have two OUs where I place computers, Desktops and [...]
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Using Computername to place computer in specific OU during deployment
Posted: 3rd May 2012 by Mats Hellman in ConfigMgr, Systems Center, Windows, Windows DeploymentTags: Collection, Deployment, OSD, Task Sequence, Variables
Setting up Windows Server DHCP for SCCM2007
Posted: 27th July 2011 by Mats Hellman in ConfigMgr, Systems Center, Windows, Windows DeploymentTags: DHCP, SCCM, WDS
Every now and then I get the question about setting up your DHCP server for SCCM when the DHCP server doesn’t reside on the same host as the SCCM/WDS server. So to get this working you need to set option 66 and option 67 in your DHCP server. The options should be set to as [...]
Configuration Manager computer association speed up
Posted: 24th September 2010 by Mats Hellman in ConfigMgr, Server 2008 r2, Windows, Windows DeploymentTags: abortpxe, pxe boot, SCCM
Usually when I install bare metal systems I have to wait over an hour for SCCM:s PXE to work on the newly imported computer. Before the Windows deployment services cache has expired that is. And the standard setting for that i 3600 seconds. Sometimes you really don’t have the time to wait for the hour [...]
Prepare a Virtual Environment for testing
Posted: 14th May 2010 by Mats Hellman in Windows, Windows DeploymentTags: Virtual Environment, Virtual PC
One of the more important tools I use in my day to day work is Virtual PC. To be honest I’ve been looking at VMware Workstation for a while because Virtual PC 2007 doesn’t support 64-bit guest operating systems. But that’s another story. Right now I manage with what I’ve got. Why a virtual environment? [...]
Setting up Windows Deployment services environment part 2
Posted: 9th July 2009 by Mats Hellman in Windows, Windows DeploymentTags: Windows Automated Installation Toolkit, Windows Deployment Services, Windows Server, Windows XP, WinPE
Well it’s been a while now since I wrote the first article on this topic. I’m really sorry this blog has been quiet for quite some time now. The reason is quite simple. The early morning of May 11 I got the privilege to watch the birth of my daughter. Since that day everything else [...]
