Make USB Bootable Media – Deploy Windows 8 and 8.1 (Isvet Laclaustra)

UPDATED for 8.1!

In Windows 8 and 8.1 a tool for creating USB Bootable Media is DISKPART.

DISKPART will help you clean drive, create an activate a partition, and format to NTFS in a very simple way, you can follow the notes below.

Important once the USB drive is prepared you will need to add / transfer all the files / content from a Windows 8, 8.1 DVD to the USB you just formatted.

It works as a charm! Hope you can use it in your lab, “On the Floor” and surely in your SCCM 2012, MDT 2012 U1 created media or Plain USB.

Isvet Laclaustra – MCT

How to Automate the Installation of Office 2013 with only Application you want via MDT 2012 Update 1

In MDT 2012 Update 1 you can continue to install / deploy Office applications as defined in the Deployment Share.

Now when you are running the wizard in MDT one of the questions request the command line installation instructions. This time we want to install some of Office 2013 applications:

1. You need to use the setup.exe /admin command via command prompt to access Office 2013 Customization Tool and as result create an .msp file.

2. This .msp file will then need to be set as the installation option during automated installations. Define the optons as you need yet keep in mind to select the Accept the End User Agreement and the Do Not Cancel option as well. The Suppress Mode can be left on Basic.

3. Once created the file can be copied to \admin\en-us\ inside the Office 2013 as in the example below:

setup.exe /adminfile .\admin\en-us\config.msp:

To work…

Isvet MVP