If you are planning on attending the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) next week, I though I would give you a heads up on a couple of the sessions you may want to attend while your in Los Angeles. For those not familiar with WPC, it is an annual gathering for the Microsoft partner community...

We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of the release candidate of MDT 2010.  This release contains numerous bug fixes since MDT 2010 Beta 2. MDT 2010 RC has been tested and will work with Windows 7 RTM and Windows Server 2008 R2 RTM as well as all previously supported operating systems...

Greetings from TechEd Australia! When the TechEd Australia event team contacted me with the idea of building PCs for attendees, I was keen to support this with the latest Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 deployment tools. Nick Hodge and Jorke Odolphi have blogged extensively about this on www.techedbackstage...

During the Get On The Bus Tour, I did a demo using the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010 where I took a Windows XP machine with Office 2003 on it and migrated it to Windows 7 and Office 2010 in under 40 minutes. I have received several emails with questions on this presentation, so here are the answers...

This weeks post is the part two to the Your Building a LiteTouch Bootable USB Image Questions Answered! post from 6/21. Big thanks to Jeremy Chapman from the Windows Product Team and Brian Shiers from the Microsoft Office team for the assist. Over the last couple of weeks at TechEd and from folks...

Earlier this month, we announced that Windows 8 reached the RTM milestone . Today Windows 8 Enterprise is available to Software Assurance customers via the Volume License Service Center (VLSC) , allowing you to test, pilot and begin adopting Windows 8 Enterprise within your organization. For those...

It takes 18-24 months to plan for and deploy a new operating system. If you haven’t started planning to migrate your Windows XP PCs to a modern OS, or if your migration plan have stalled here are some great tools to help you. First of all, start by downloading  the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit ...

Over the past few years I have been very fortunate to meet so many of you face to face during my travels with the Springboard Series Tours. I have spent time in Finland and Rome talking MDT, ACT and MAP, London and Barcelona discussing AppCompat, and even sharing with you twenty Windows tools you did...

Over the past few months, we have talked quite a bit about the MDT 2010 Beta ( Your Adding Office 2010 to MDT 2010 Environment Questions Answered! , Your Building a LiteTouch Bootable USB Image Questions Answered! , and Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010 Update 1 - Now in Beta Release! ) We are very pleased...

The Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 launches are just around the corner. As you prepare to deploy these operating systems, get a jump start with Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) 2010 Beta 2. Leverage this Solution Accelerator to achieve efficient, cost-effective deployment of Windows 7 and Windows...

Deploy Windows 7 and Office 2010 quickly and reliably If you’re making the move to Windows 7 and Office 2010, you need tools and guidance to help deploy Windows and Office quickly—and do it right the first time. Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) 2010 Update 1 Beta includes new features like Office 2010...

We are pleased to announce the release of MDT 2010 available for download here .  MDT 2010 has been in planning and development for a little over a year and is our largest release to date with over 70% of our code changing since MDT 2008. MDT 2010 has also been tested throughout our Beta and Release...

“I found MDT 2010 done and ready to rock in an hour from a blank setup” “Tell the team THANK YOU FOR POWERSHELL ENABLING MDT2010 ! :)” “Microsoft has finally taken responsibility for making everything work, Kudos to Microsoft!” “MDT WDS is a kick ass solution...