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  • Deploying printers using Group Policy in Windows 7

    This is a subject I have written about various times before. We didn’t get the capability to install printers automatically to client computers via a GUI until Windows Server 2003 R2 was released, which was happening about 2 years after I started working with the school where I am now employed. Along came the Print…

  • Automating Windows Installations [3]

    Once you have got started with MDT 2010, you will want to start playing with its more advanced features and functions. I may have mentioned that one of the scenarios for MDT is to deploy a base OS and install its applications automatically, instead of capturing a reference PC. This approach is ultimately the one…

  • Automating Windows 7 Installation [2]

    Having completed my reference computer setup I decided to jump in boots and all to the task of getting this computer imaged. Starting at Part 11 of the series at WindowsNetworking.com I began with executing the script LiteTouch.vbs. In practice I have to use RunAs /user:<username> in order to log on to the deployment share…

  • Automating Windows 7 Installation [1] & Thin Client Evaluation

    Almost two years ago I wrote that I was planning to roll out Vista to student desktops. For a variety of reasons that didn’t happen. Some of the reasons were alluded to in that article – there were so many headaches with the new security model for a start. Last year I made a concerted…

  • HP Thin Client pt 2 / Windows 7 / Office 2010 / Office Live

    This post is a bit of a wrap up of a whole lot of stuff. Firstly our experiments with the HP Thin Client are continuing. I successfully got it to connect to a WS2008 RD server with NLA turned off. I’m now experimenting with student logins and mandatory profiles. One of our standard configurations for…