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The Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010 is already available in beta, but many companies are just getting up to speed using MDT 2008 for their deployment needs, not to mention the numerous companies that are still working with BDD 2007. Microsoft’s deployment solutions are surely fast moving these days.
What I missed in the documentation of MDT 2008 is a way for me as a consultant to set up an MDT environment with sources, settings and images, and being able to deploy these sources, settings and images to a client’s MDT. This because most clients have similar set up environments, with all similar starting sources. It is no use to send the first half day of your consulting job importing sources you have already imported numerous times for other clients and yourself.
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Quick picture of my wife’s progress.
After visiting the Nurburgring on friday, I drove off for a nightly M meeting in Antwerp. Check out the 7 pictures of 5 M3′s, A Z3M QP and Z4MR.
Ever run into a problem where you revert a domain member server or Windows XP domain client toa previously taken snapshot, and when trying to log on the domain, the logon fails?
I did in 2007, and never really thought of it until I ran into the following article 1006764 on the VMWare knowledge base.
The cause is very simple, and so is the solution: Member servers and clients have, just like users, accounts with passwords. If set up like this, these passwords are reset every set period. If you revert a machine back to an old snapshot, chances are that the password stored in the snapshot is not up to date with the password stored in Active Directory, and hence, Active Directory does not allow the machine to log on again.
