Yesterday I was at a customer who uses WDS, MDT in combination with RES Automation Manager to roll out Windows 7 workstations. We created a database in MDT to store the serial number, the mac address and the host name of a machine. This is used when deploying a workstation so the sys admins don’t have to fill in the computer name during deployment. One of the sys admins asked me if we could automate the action of putting the data in the MDT database so when a new machine is deployed it registers in the database without interaction.
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Add Computers Automatically into the MDT Database with Powershell and RES Automation Manager
Category: Automation Manager, MDT, Microsoft |
Tags: Automation Manager, Database, MDT, Powershell, RES Software
Create mandatory profile and use this in RES Workspace Manager
After my last post I got some feedback about the use of mandatory profiles and how to implement them using RES Workspace Manager. First of all you have to create a mandatory profile for the OS you want to use. Let’s say you want to create a mandatory profile for Windows 7. Microsoft published a great how-to on their website containing the following steps:
Category: Microsoft, Workspace Manager |
Tags: Mandatory, Microsoft, Profiles, RES Software, Workspace Manager
Change CDrom drive letter with PowerShell
Here’s just a little Powershell script to change the CDrom drive letter to another drive letter, most customers use a standardized drive letter for this type of drive.
Category: Automation Manager, Microsoft |
Tags: Automation Manager, Microsoft, Powershell, RES Software
