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According to this document from Apple : http://support.apple.com/kb/TS4176 You may have trouble using the Directory Utility if your domain is setup such that the Netbios name and host name are not the same. This is the situation I find myself in, so I thought I would post a sample script to help others out… The script can be found here

This is something that bugged me for a while, and I just stumbled across an answer… When you create a new “Standard Client Task Sequence” to deploy an OS, the first thing you are prompted for after choosing the template is the OS. I wanted to know how to specify a different OS for an existing task Sequence. The obvious scenario for this would be when have updated a reference image but do not want to recreate a custom task sequence.

I have had an issue where I was no longer able to update my deployment share to update my boot images. If I installed MDT on another computer and connected to the share, I could then do the update, so the problem is not with the share itself but with the computer doing the updating. I had tried uninstalling WAIK and then reinstalling it, but that did not help. I did some googling and did not come up with anything either… I was suspecting that some temp files were a problem, so I started poking around.

In MDT 2010, you can create application bundles. An application bundle is simply a list of dependencies or a list of applications to be installed. In this example, an application bundle can be used to bundle 32bit and 64bit versions of an application. Here is how to do this : We will assume that we have set up both the 32bit and 64bit version of the software. In this example I am using AVG