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

How to Automate the Installation of Office 2010 with only Application you want via MDT 2010 Update 1

In MDT 2010 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 2010 applications:

1. You need to use the setup.exe /admin command via command prompt to access Office 2010 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 2010 as in the example below:

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

To work…

Isvet MVP

How to Automate the Installation of .msi you want via MDT 2010 Update 1

In MDT 2010 Update 1 you can continue to install / deploy .msi applications as defined in the Deployment Share.

During the MDT Applications wizard one of the parameters to configure is the command line. This time we want to install .msi application packages:

1.Identify the true name / complete name of the .msi. For example:

the complete name of this application is essbe_nt64_enu.msi

2. You need to use the msiexec /i  as prefix to the name of the .msi application package name.

msiexec /i essbe_nt64_enu.msi /passive

Note: The /passive is a non-user interaction switch for the ESET ESS application used in this example. To find out our applications switches you may drag them to to a cmd and just add the /? .

On the move…

Isvet MVP

Windows 7 with MDT 2010 EASY… (Isvet Laclaustra) Step by Step Workshop FREE!

Migrate to Windows 7 with MDT 2010 EASY! “LTO & ZTO”
When: Scheduled for August 9, 2011
Where: Huertas Junior College
# 41 Bunker St. Caguas PR, 00726
Time: 5:00 pm to 10:00 pm
Join us for a Technical demonstration of “How to” use MDT 2010 and other Microsoft FREE Tools to migrate Windows XP systems to Windows 7 and include applications, documents and more. During this step by step conference you will be able to execute the DEMOS “side by side” with us if you bring your laptop (mobile lab).

Be ready to have fun while on the job… MIGRATING existing users PCs.

See you there and be ready for PowerShell.

More details @ http://itcspr.org

 

Isvet MVP

SKYDRIVE Isvet Laclaustra

Isvet Laclaustra SkyDrive Address:

http://cid-8bebe03ce418570a.office.live.com/documents.aspx