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While I was out in Seattle enjoying a fantastic MVP 2013 summit, I came across my buddy Niall Brady who was getting all excited about his new CM12 BitLocker front-end HTA (new, I think he’s reached Iteration 3 so not so new …), and we agreed to meet up in the evening to go over it. This all went to plan...

Recently I had a Client who wanted to control the naming of their devices during the build cycle in OSD during New, Replacement and Upgrades scenarios, they also wanted to specify a User Device Affinity for some but not all devices. The mechanism had to leverage an initiative that was physically asset...

ConfigMgr 2012 SP1 brings a bunch load of new features for us to check out, one of which, and the subject of this quick guide provides functionality in the Console to add Optional Components to a WINPE Boot Image. To achieve this previously we had to do a bit of hand crafting (manual steps) using DISM...

Great advice from Chris Nackers and Johan Arwidmark on establishing a test environment and how to speed up your testing cycle real fast. If you are doing OSD\MDT you should be reading this. Thanks Chris (and Johan!) ! http://blogs.catapultsystems.com/cnackers/archive/2011/05/05/save-time-and...

Priceless information, thanks for bringing this all together Clifton! ConfigMgr 2007 Bare Metal Win7 Task Sequence Deployment with the Enable Bitlocker Step

Another good article from the blogs on Technet for ConfigMgr. This one, is a summarisation of content already in the ConfigMgr Documentation Library, but brings it all together in one place for us, with a step by step walk through to boot. How to create offline or standalone USB media for OS Deployment...

Looks like the OSD team blog is alive again, has been quiet for some time, Keep an eye on it here: http://blogs.technet.com/inside_osd/ RSS to it here: http://blogs.technet.com/inside_osd/rss.xml

Over on the ConfigMgr Support team blog they have a write up on how to setup a TS to deploy Win7 images http://blogs.technet.com/b/configurationmgr/archive/2010/04/12/how-to-set-up-a-task-sequence-to-deploy-windows-7-images-captured-via-an-sccm-2007-capture-cd.aspx When a Task Sequence is created...