WDS – Unattended file – Removing /Formatting Drive Partitions
Nov17

WDS – Unattended file – Removing /Formatting Drive Partitions

KB ID 0000490  Problem Over the last couple of years I’ve done a lot of imaging of School PC’s I don’t know why but they come with a myriad of different drive and partition configurations. Even big vendors like HP and Dell ship their machines with recovery partitions these days. If you are imaging with WDS this can cause a problem so what I usually want to do is remove all the partitions, create one big one that...

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WDS – Unattended file – Joining a Domain Automatically
Nov17

WDS – Unattended file – Joining a Domain Automatically

KB ID 0000494  Problem During a large rollout the more things you can automate the better, before you continue though be aware of one thing… You can only automatically join a client to a domain if it has an auto generated random machine name!* *Note: This is not 100% true, if you pre-stage the computer objects into Active Directory with the GUID of the machine (you can see this on the screen at pXe boot time, or get it from the...

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