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So, a colleague hands me two laptops that are going to be added to our loaner pool. No problem… just add the the computer’s information into the MDT database and image them. Both machines were taking quite a long time for the wizard to come up, and when it did it was obvious that none of the values from the database were coming down. Both machines were connecting to the deployment share, and had valid IP addresses.

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