Mdt 2013 Installing Mdt 2013

Now we are going to install MDT 2013. This is a simple process but I wanted to show you anyways. After you have downloaded MDT 2013 from Microsoft (See This Post) When you first Launch the MDT 2013 Installer, you should see the following screen: Click Next to Continue Accept the License Agreement and click Next: Choose the Location that you want MDT 2013 to be installed. This is typically left alone but you are more than welcome to install it on a separate partition/drive. Continue reading

Mdt 2013 Installing Adk for 8 1

Once you have all of the necessary files downloaded and saved on your Windows Server 2012 R2 box, then begin by installing the “adksetup.exe”. The first screen that should pop-up is this one: The Following Screenshots are all based on your own needs but these are the options that I have chosen for this setup: I choose to download the ADK instead of installing it. The reason I do this is because I like to keep a backup of the original file, just in case the server crashes or something else happens. Continue reading

Mdt 2013 Setting Up Mdt 2013 With Adk for Windows 7 8 8 1

Hello Everyone, in the following few weeks I will creating several new posts about setting MDT 2013 on Windows Server 2012 R2 to enable you to image your Dell OptiPlex & Lattitude machines. This will be similar to my MDT 2012 Update 1 Guide but a bit different as well. I hope you enjoy! To Start things off, you need to download the following pieces of software: MDT 2013 ADK for Windows 8. Continue reading

Mdt 2013 Pin Start Menu Task Bar Shortcuts Through Task Sequence

Below is how we stopped modifying the Start Menu & Task Bar shortcuts on our Default Image (GOLD IMAGE) using MDT 2013 Task Sequence. This applies to Windows 7 and I’m sure it could be modified to work with Windows 8.1. Check it out below and let me know if you have any questions. To do this, you are going to need the following scripts in a folder on your MDT 2013 Server. Continue reading

Script Adding Exchange Resource Accounts to Your Outlook

I work for a large public University and we have many Resource Accounts. We needed a way to move from Public Folders but we wanted it to be seemless as possible. To do this, I created this VBS script that allows anyone to add Resource Accounts to their Outlook 2013/2010 calendar as a shared calendar. The user in question will have to run this script while Outlook is open and it will pull the Resource Account (add the Resource Account name in the RESOURCEACCOUNTNAME variable below) from the GAL and add it to the users calendar. Continue reading

Script Removing Proxy From Firefox User Prefs Js

So, I was tasked with removing proxy settings from Firefox because of Webroot Desktop Proxy. Removing them from the %Programfiles% directory was easy, the hard part was the user prefs.js. Anyways, here’s a little script I created to remove Proxy settings and set them to No Proxy. cd /D “%APPDATA%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles" cd *.default set ffile=%cd% type “%ffile%\prefs.js” | findstr /v “user_pref(“network.proxy.type”, 2);">"%ffile%\prefs_.js” type “%ffile%\prefs.js” | findstr /v “user_pref(“network.proxy.type”, 0);">"%ffile%\prefs_.js” ren “prefs.js” “prefs_. Continue reading

Powershell Updating Local Admin Passwords Securely 3 of 3

Below is an example of how to remotely (using PowerShell) update and change the Local Administrator password securely. This is not my script, I received this script along with many others from the SANS SEC 505 course. I have not altered it in any way. Updating the Passwords of the Local Administrator on remote mahcines (You must have a Certificate either from your CA or another Certificate Authority): This script will remove older local administrator passwords that you have created with the first part (1 of 3) which is decrypted by your Private Key Certificate in (2 of 3). Continue reading