IT Open Day at The Queen’s College, University of Oxford

With thanks to the 50 staff from across the University for attending please see below the links to the videos and PowerPoints of the day! Direct link to Playlist – https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PLRxbdlgJzwyjAf820T0u4GpP0E01a9LEX&v=u-GVJ_0VuRM Slides as PowerPoint Slides as PDF Stay tuned over the coming days for the scripts that are mentioned through the video which will be linked to from this post.



Unable to mount the WIM, so the update process cannot continue – MDT on Hyper-V

Not the first time I’ve run into this issue and probably won’t be the last! While building a new Windows Server 2016 (Full) Microsoft Deployment Toolkit server when attempting to run the ‘Update Deployment Share’ wizard I was getting the following error message. Unable to mount the WIM, so the update process cannot continue. The solution is simple; if you… Read more



Deploy Sibelius 8 Sounds with MDT 2013

So first things first….the title of this article is misleading; thus far Avid do not seem to have released a sounds pack specific for Sibelius 8 as you will see on the website when you login in (https://my.avid.com/account/orientation) the only option is for the 7.5 sounds pack. But…this works! Now deploying Sibelius it’s self in a silent manner is (in my… Read more



PXE Boot to WDS with VirtualBox

If you have ever tried to boot a VirtualBox VM into PXE (Microsoft WDS/MDT based) using the default Intel PRO/1000MT Desktop adapter you may have seen the error message FATAL: Could not read from the boot medium! System halted. The simple solution to this problem (and to get you booting into WDS) is to install the VirtualBox extension pack which can… Read more