So this fast-publish post is more of a reference page for the regional settings for Australia based Windows deployments Locale, keyboard and language settings for Australia. This is a basic oobe.xml file found under c:\windows\system32\oobe\info\default\1033 <FirstExperience> <oobe> <defaults> <location>12</location>
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MDT 2013 – Windows 8.1 & disable Hibernation
Disabling hibernation is simple enough (“powercfg.exe -h off”) but how would we do this in MDT. As with all things MDT, there is often more multiple ways to achieve the same goal. The two methods I would use are by the modifying the unattend.xml as described here or using a command line
Read moreMDT 2013 – Win 8.1 Reference Image automation
Using MDT 2013 I wanted a sequence that automatically installs, sysprep’s and captures my reference image. For ease of management, I choose to have a dedicated MDT Deployment Share for my reference build process and use Powershell wherever possible. A more detailed process using the GUI can be found here Steps: Install ADK
Read morePowershell script to set speaker volume
On a recent MDT project the client requested to finish all builds with volume set at 30%. Being committed to doing everything in Powershell, I jumped on the book of knowledge looking for some inspiration. As luck would have it, I found this response from knuckle-dragger that performed the
Read moreMDT 2013 – USB Boot and drive letter management
A recent MDT project a client was using USB media to do the builds. This is easy enough to accomplish but something they couldn’t handle was during the build, the USB drive gets assigned D and devices with optical drives ended up with E and so forth… This wasn’t acceptable
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