Dan Van Drunen on Deployment
Deploying since Windows 2000

While at MMS 2010 in Las Vegas last week I attended a driver management session that was presented by Michael Niehaus and Johan Arwidmark. They dove into detail on pretty much all of the different driver management scenarios that you could apply to your deployment infrastructure and they answered many of the questions I had with regards to how drivers could possibly be handled. It basically came… Read More

When I started deploying Windows 7 64-bit I quickly realized that our trusty log viewer, trace32.exe, did not work in a WinPE 64 bit environment. Makes sense...right? I started looking around to see if there was a 64 bit version of this time-saving tool and I stumbled across Johan Arwidmark's post here (http://www.deployvista.com/Blog/tabid/70/EntryID/124/language/en-US/Default.aspx)… Read More

When trying to import Windows 7 Enterprise into the Deployment Workbench (MDT 2010) under operating systems, I received the following error.   Performing operation "import" on Target "Operating system". ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unable to get information for WIM file \\server\share\path\Install.wim . System.DllNotFoundException: Unable to load DLL 'wimgapi.dll': The specified module could not be found. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x8007007E)    at Microsoft.BDD.PSSnapIn.WIMGAPI.CreateFile(String wimPath, AccessFlags desiredAccess, Disposition creationDisposition,… Read More

Application Bundles did not exist in BDD 2007 but are included in MDT 2008 and MDT 2010. Application Bundles are used to group applications so that they may be chosen as a group, then deployed together in a specific order. There are a few ways you can use these bundles during your deployment depending on how much interaction your want your installation technician to have. These bundles can either be chosen at time of deployment through the LTI wizard, preconfigured in your customsettings.ini or configured through your MDT database.  

Understanding the concept of Application Bundles

If you are familiar with how application dependencies… Read More

PowerShell is Microsoft’s replacement for the Commandline and is required in order to create and manipulate a deployment share in MDT 2010. If you have installed MDT 2010 on Wndows Server 2008, when you go to create your Deployment Share you will notice the following message.       A quick online search does not help as PowerShell is not available for download from the Microsoft site for Windows Server 2008. This is because it is included in the OS. Here… Read More