Win10 Deploy– Microsoft TechNet - Windows 10 Deployment and Management Lab Kit

Here’s a nice option if you want to quickly start testing Microsoft Windows 10 deployment without all the troubles and hurdles of creating your environment.
Microsoft TechNet gives you a 32GB virtual lab with all that you need.

This is specially nice to test before creating your final production environment.

In this virtual lab you’ll get:

• Windows 10 Enterprise v1703 (aka Creators Update)
• System Center 2012 Configuration Manager 1702 (aka SCCM)
• Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit for Windows 10 v1703 (aka Windows ADK)
• Microsoft Deployment Toolkit v8443 (aka MDT)
• Microsoft Application Virtualization 5.1 (aka App-V)
• Microsoft BitLocker Administration and Monitoring 2.5 Service Pack 1 (aka MBAM)
• Windows Server 2016
• Microsoft SQL

More information about this lab kit can be found here:
Windows 10 deployment and management lab kit

To download the lab kit directly:
Windows 10 Deployment and Management Lab Kit

Deployment Tips - Lenovo ThinkPad Drivers Pack for SCCM

Following other posts about drivers packs, today I would like to post about Lenovo Thinkpad drivers.
Lenovo uses a different terminology (SCCM Drivers) but of course they can be used direclty on MDT.

You’ll find this SCCM packages directly on Lenovo support website and basically you just need to select the model you need and you’ll find the drivers pack, or you can just Google something like “thinkpad t450 sccm drivers pack” and you’ll get directly to the download website.

Here’s an example: After searching for “thinkpad 440 sccm drivers” you’ll be redirect to http://support.lenovo.com/pt/en/downloads/ds030230 and you get the list of SCCM drivers available for that model and compatible models.

Deployment Tips – HP Driver Packs

Following a series of posts about driver packs from the most notorious OEM manufacturers in the worlds, here’s the tip for HP manufacturer.

The website it’s well designed and very easy to navigate. You can always use HP SoftPaq Download Manager but…well..I just like to use this website instead.

Here’s the link:
HP Client Management Solutions - HP Driver Packs

Deployment Tips – Dell Drivers Packs for Enterprise Client OS

Following the previous post about Intel PROSet/Wireless drivers for IT Administrators, here’s also a nice website, this time from Dell where you can download packs with CABs for Dell Enterprise class systems like Latitude, Optiplex and Precision.

This packs helps to simplify OS deployments on Dell systems using the usual deployment tools like Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) or Microsoft Deployment Kit (MDT).

Dell Command | Deploy - Driver Packs for Enterprise Client OS Deployment

Deployment Tips – Intel PROSet/Wireless Drivers for IT Administrators

So today, here’s a tip for every IT Administrator that need to download Intel PROSet/Wireless drivers.

Intel provides the below website where you can find drivers-only packages and also software for WiFi, Bluetooth, and WiMax.
This is obviously recommended for large corporations where packages size matters and of course, it helps to avoid installing a lot of “bloatware” usually available on drivers setup.

Intel® PROSet/Wireless Software and Drivers for IT Administrators

Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT) for Windows 10 Available

It's finally available Microsoft Remote Administration Tools (RSAT) for Windows 10 RTM.
With RSAT for Windows 10 makes it possible to manage server features and roles remotely from your desktop environment.
This includes, Server Manager, MMC snap-ins, consoles, powershell cmdlets and a lot of other tools.

Download it from here:
Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows 10

Windows 8 - What IT Pros Should Know

Just to share a nice roundtable from Microsoft Technet about some features Windows 8 has that can help you get more of this O.S. and using it to improve, virtualization, deployment, security and devices.

Take a look here: