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• Windows 7 App Locker

  Window 7 RC has been out for a few weeks now the TLA team has been busy learning and testing all the great new features. Your tip for today is on Windows 7 App Locker. Many of you know about Software Restriction Policies. They allow you to block the execution Read More... Posted Thursday, May 21, 2009 8:31 AM by daniel.nerenberg | 0 Comments Filed under: Group Policy, Security, Windows Client, Windows Springboard, daniel.nerenberg, Deployment

• Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010

  Now that you have had a few weeks to test out the public Windows 7 beta, it’s time to think about how you’re going to deploy the goodness out to all your users. Fortunately the fine people at the Microsoft’s Solutions Accelerator group are on the ball. Read More... Posted Saturday, January 31, 2009 9:00 AM by daniel.nerenberg | 0 Comments Filed under: Windows Server, Windows Springboard, daniel.nerenberg, Deployment

• Microsoft Assessment and Planning Solution Accelerator

  A few weeks ago I posted about some of the tools Microsoft provides to help establish the costs and saving that deploying Vista can bring. One of the issues that I have is how do we get the numbers to fill in those forms; well MS has you covered there Read More... Posted Monday, June 02, 2008 8:33 AM by daniel.nerenberg | 0 Comments Filed under: Windows Client, Windows Springboard, daniel.nerenberg, Deployment

• Capturing a custom Image using ImageX and a Generic WinPE Disk

  I have had a lot of people ask me about capturing a custom image manually using ImageX. First before I go into details on how to do this let me just point out a few things first. 1) You can use the process we went through previously to recapture a custom Read More... Posted Tuesday, June 19, 2007 9:21 AM by daniel.nerenberg | 3 Comments Filed under: daniel.nerenberg, Deployment

• Adding Applications to BDD

  BDD allows you to automate the installation of base applications as part of the image building or deployment process. This is really useful if your company can't afford an application management suite like SMS or Alteris. This functionality is also helpful Read More... Posted Tuesday, May 29, 2007 8:30 AM by daniel.nerenberg | 5 Comments Filed under: daniel.nerenberg, Deployment

• Building a Windows XP Image in BDD 2007 Part 2

  This post will go over adding an XP WIM image to your BDD 2007 server and installing XP from a WIM based build. First make sure that your Windows XP was properly installed. BDD will bring your through the basic install launched from the GUI. Next you Read More... Posted Friday, May 25, 2007 12:41 AM by daniel.nerenberg | 7 Comments Filed under: daniel.nerenberg, Deployment

• Building a Windows XP Image in BDD 2007 Part 1

  Many people are interested in the utilities and features offered in Windows Vista deployment tools. They are also very interested in the new BDD framework. What many people don't realize is that you can use many of the Vista deployment tools to manage Read More... Posted Thursday, May 24, 2007 8:30 AM by daniel.nerenberg | 19 Comments Filed under: daniel.nerenberg, Deployment

• Windows Deployment Services

  Deploying BDD is a big project. One of the first elements, and a huge time saver, is installing WDS. This tool allows us to stream down a copy of Windows PE 2.0 to your clients so that you can launch the installation process in a 32 or 64 bit environment. Read More... Posted Monday, May 07, 2007 8:27 AM by daniel.nerenberg | 2 Comments Filed under: Windows Server, Windows Client, daniel.nerenberg, Deployment

• BDD quick start

  BDD 2007 is Microsoft's new framework of tools to deploy Windows Vista and XP. The great thing about BDD 2007 is that you can put it in place now for your XP builds, and when you're ready to start dropping Vista into your environment you'll be ready with Read More... Posted Sunday, February 11, 2007 8:43 PM by daniel.nerenberg | 0 Comments Filed under: daniel.nerenberg, Deployment