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Planning a home lab or home network

Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Introduction

To have

Compute nodes
Storage nodes

Documentation AUtomation Rebuildable Backups (that work!)

Mermaid test

sequenceDiagram
 participant Alice
 participant Bob
 Alice->>John: Hello John, how are you?
 loop Healthcheck
 John->>John: Fight against hypochondria
 end
 Note right of John: Rational thoughts <br/>prevail!
 John-->>Alice: Great!
 John->>Bob: How about you?
 Bob-->>John: Jolly good!

Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) for newbies - Part 1

Fri, 18 Jun 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Introduction

Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) is a free tool for automating Windows OS deployments. It is sort of a scaled down SCCM if you like, with a focus on imaging. At an enterprise level, you will likely use SCCM, but for smaller companies, MDT might just do the trick, and even at home :-)

Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) for newbies - Part 2

Fri, 18 Jun 2021 00:00:00 +0000

From part 1, we got all the tools we needed and are now ready to start installing MDT and getting started on our first reference image.

Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) for newbies - Part 3

Fri, 18 Jun 2021 00:00:00 +0000

In part 2, we installed everything and got out first task sequence working. Now lets go further and finish off our reference image.

Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) for newbies - Part 4

Fri, 18 Jun 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Now that we have captured our first reference image, we can import this reference image and start creating our production image right? Well, let do some reference image clean up first.