by Jonathan Bennett | Jul 20, 2015 | Deployment
With the imminent public release of Windows 10 I have been readying my test environments to be able to deploy and test Windows 10. This is a quick overview of the main deployment scenarios supported and some links to the software you will need. Also I’ve included some...
by Jonathan Bennett | Jul 8, 2015 | Deployment
This post contains a WinPE version list including the WinPE versions, the Windows version name, and the numeric Windows version string that it was built from. Windows Preinstallation Environment (Windows PE or WinPE) is a lightweight version of Windows that is...
by Jonathan Bennett | Feb 4, 2015 | Deployment
This post shows how to automate the numerous “first-run” dialogs that are shown when a user runs an Office 2013 or Office 365 application for the first time. With a standard local installation of Office 2013 this can be done in two ways. Firstly, by using Group...
by Jonathan Bennett | Jan 10, 2014 | Deployment
Recently I came across an issue with System Center Configuration Manager (ConfigMgr) 2012 where a large number of packages and applications had failed to be distributed to a new Distribution Point (DP). There were many thousands of packages in the environment and a...
by Jonathan Bennett | Jan 7, 2014 | Scripting
A common request when creating automated desktop builds or custom maintenance tools is the ability detect if the main system drive is an SSD disk or not. This information can be used to configure a system in a particular way. For example, to run (or not run) certain...
