Archive | February, 2009

25 February 2009 4 Comments

How To: Validate Network Connectivity by Subnet in the MDT Task Sequencer

One of the many things in life that really bothers me, is Microsoft Deployment Toolkit’s binary nature. During an OS deployment, everything has to be 100% “as expected”  or the deployment itself tends to fail completely. An incorrect setting can get your 99% through your build process, only to have it fail at the very [...]

23 February 2009 1 Comment

How To: Monitor Utimaco Safeguard Easy Encryption during OS deployment

So I promised that I’d try to post more frequently with tips and tricks for the variety of technologies I encounter and I figured I’d start with the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit, as I’ve gained quite a bit of hands-on experience with this as of late.
MDT is used to build and deploy both workstation and server [...]

20 February 2009 12 Comments

EncodeHD 1.0.66.0

Hallo! Another Friday and time for another EncodeHD release This one is a little bit different…
As you may have noticed, we’re suddenly out of beta and at 1.0! Well, sorta yeah. I figure I’d do away with the Beta / RC / Final  labels and inconsisent version numbers and revise my whole numbering [...]

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20 February 2009 7 Comments

Workstation Migration Assistant 1.05

Update: Have added further changes since yesterday and brought the version to 1.05
Been a while since I’ve gotten to work on this, but I’ve been playing around with Windows 7 and USMT4 lately, and I wanted to kick off some basic support for it. Here’s what’s new:

NEW: MigrationUSBAutoUseIfAvailable Setting which will automatically use a USB [...]

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10 February 2009 12 Comments

EncodeHD 0.98 beta Released

We’re getting there! I’m running out of version numbers though, and I have so much I want to pack in before we get to a stable 1.0 release…
Might be some issues around BlackBerry Storm / Bold H.264. If anyone can help me with this (I don’t have either!) I’d appreciate it.
I’m also considering a namechange. [...]

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