by Jonathan Bennett | Jul 3, 2011 (Updated Jan 28, 2018)
Overview When doing Windows 7 builds in either MDT 2010 or ConfigMgr 2007 you have to download and install a selection of drivers that are to be installed in your images. Some drivers are used for the WinPE boot image so that the boot image can access the local...
by Jonathan Bennett | Jun 28, 2011 (Updated Jan 29, 2018)
Overview In the UK, we actually get the US version of Windows 7 and Office 2010, so whenever I do any build engineering in either MDT or ConfigMgr one of the first things I need to customize are the regional settings. In particular the keyboard layout and location....
by Jonathan Bennett | Jun 26, 2011 (Updated Jan 29, 2018)
Overview When configuring ConfigMgr 2007 Operating System Deployment (OSD) there are an endless number of applications, operating system images, operating system install files, drivers, source files, package files, temp files. Everytime I set it up I end up with a...
by Jonathan Bennett | Jun 15, 2011 (Updated Jan 29, 2018)
Overview No-one can ever know everything they need to know about Microsoft products and techies will freely admit that they spend half their time checking resources such as Microsoft TechNet while working on a problem or design. Sometimes I need to go on to a site...
by Jonathan Bennett | May 20, 2011 (Updated Jan 31, 2018)
Overview This blog post will show you how to sequence AutoIt using App-V 4.6 SP1 (the latest version at the time of writing). Now, AutoIt is probably the easiest application to sequence in the world and doesn’t really need a blog post describing how to do it....
by Jonathan Bennett | May 13, 2011 (Updated Jan 29, 2018)
Overview An issue I saw a number of times at customers was that the Windows 7 Aero theme was not enabled after deployment. I saw this numerous times in early workshops and pilots for customers and completely forgot about it until I saw the question asked again a few...
by Jonathan Bennett | May 6, 2011 (Updated Jan 29, 2018)
Overview You may have heard the about the fact that Windows 7 (and actually, Windows Vista too) has improved boot up times over Windows XP and dismissed it as “that there marketing speak”. Surprisingly, it’s actually true! On top of that, the boot...
by Jonathan Bennett | Apr 28, 2011 (Updated Jan 29, 2018)
Overview Troubleshooting slow boots and logons are a common request. In this post I will show you how to perform boot logging using the Windows Performance Toolkit (WPT) on a Windows 7 machine and perform some basic analysis of it. Preparation First, you need to...
by Jonathan Bennett | Apr 22, 2011 (Updated Jan 29, 2018)
Overview The Windows Performance Toolkit (WPT) is a suite of tools designed for measuring and analysing system and application performance on Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008. They can be used by enterprises to log and analyse clients in...
by Jonathan Bennett | Apr 10, 2011 (Updated Jan 29, 2018)
Overview Welcome to the AutoIt Consulting Blog! This blog will share tips, tricks and scripts related to Microsoft Windows deployment and related technologies. Until we start blogging in earnest, here are some links to some articles done by myself (Jonathan Bennett)...