Monthly Archives: February 2010

Migrate XP to Windows 7 using Offline mode in Windows PE – screenshots describing the process

I’ve been testing scanstate in Offline mode while in Windows PE in the last few days for Windows XP to Windows 7 migrations and it’s impressive and fast, so I thought this would be a good way of showing you … Continue reading

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using Offline Mode in Windows PE using USMT 4 via a task sequence in SCCM 2007 SP2 scanstate using offlinewindir in winpe

hi all, well this feature in USMT 4 is handy, as it allows you to do a scanstate while in Windows PE in other words, not in the OS so no problems with services running or applications running meaning that … Continue reading

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Customising Windows 7 deployments – part 2. Specifying an Organisational Unit (OU) using the MachineObjectOU variable.

Specifying an Organisational Unit (OU) using the MachineObjectOU variable. Step 1. Create a collection variable. In Configmgr expand the collections node and select your Deploy 7 x86 collection (if you don’t have one, create one for the purpose of this … Continue reading

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Customising Windows 7 deployments – part 1. Changing the keyboard layout using unattend.xml

This is a very common question, how can I change the regional, keyboard, locale etc in Windows 7, so I’ll try and explain how  i do it in this post. In this example we will make the Italian keyboard layout … Continue reading

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