Premier Workshops – Windows 7 Deployment

For the next couple of days I’ll be attending a Microsoft Workshop for Premier Clients about Windows 7 Deployment.

Our host will be Rui Cascalheira, a Technical Account Specialist at MSFT Portugal.

I hope to get a lot of information to share here with everyone.

By the way, here are the topics we’ll talk about:

• Technical Highlights
• Understand the WIM File
• Discover the new Setup and Deployment Tools for Windows 7
• Create and Maintain the Windows Deployment Services Role
• Create and Deliver Custom Install Images
• Discover the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit
• Hard Link Migration from Windows XP to Windows 7

Windows Deployment Services Error – The System Cannot Find the File Specified

So yesterday I was starting to get crazy with an error I was getting on my WDS virtual machine.

Murphy’s Law was taking all the action and because I needed to finish a production environment image, WDS was refusing to upload a WIM.

This was the error I was getting:

Like the error tells you, the image you’re trying to upload cannot be found/it’s there anymore. …NOT

Despite this error, and after one hour trying to understand what’s going on and googling about this issue I found out that…

It was a simple…insignificant…lake of hard disk space!

Nice…very nice….

New Richard Smith LTI Walkthrough

Here it is a new MDT LTI walkthrough video from Richard Smith.

On this video Richard talks and explains the following topics:

Add operating systems, applications, drivers and packages to MDT

Configure Office 2007 into the build process

Create a MDT Lite Touch task sequence 

Setup a lab based deployment point

Create a customised build to a reference computer

Capture the reference computer as a customised WIM

Add the customised WIM back into MDT for deployment

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