Hey Everyone!

Just wanted to wish everyone a very Happy Thanksgiving!  We thank you so much for following our blog entries and really appreciate all of your feedback so far.

- Tim Mintner

Got some tools to share this week.

As many of you already know Tim, Keith, and about a half dozen other Specialists from Xtreme Consulting have recently come off an engagement with Microsoft, where we worked on the development team for the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010.

We are all extremely proud of this product, having worked many long hours, to see a final product of such immense ability, and high quality.

During that time we developed solutions to solve “hundreds” of different problems and scenarios.

Submitted for your approval this week, is a collection of “other” tools for MDT 2010. Some of these tools fit a small niche, others are just demonstrations.

• We have a couple of driver examples.
• Some tools for importing and exporting applications
• And time permitting, some Powershell Scripting Demos!

Keith

Welcome to Xtreme Deployment!  We will be posting technical blog posts on OS Deployment using Microsoft technologies such as MDT 2010 and System Center Configuration Manager 2007.  Check back often for updates!

Xtreme Consulting Group is pleased to announce the formation of the Xtreme Consulting Deployment Team. A team within Xtreme Consulting Group, specializing in Windows Deployments.

Several Members of the Xtreme Consulting Deployment Team have recently come off an engagement with the Microsoft team that developed the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010.

The Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) 2010 is the latest version of the critically acclaimed deployment software for the Windows Operating System. Microsoft Deployment Toolkit is the de-facto reference design for deployments of Windows Operating Systems and Applications.

The Xtreme Consulting Deployment Team has been formed to fill a critical need for experts in Windows Deployment. Whether are preparing your first deployment system, or need help developing customized scripts or enhancements for your existing system. Xreme Consulting’s Deployment Team is resource you need.

The formation of the Xtreme Consulting Deployment Team comes at the same time as Microsoft is releasing their new flagship product Windows 7. With the release of Windows 7, more and more companies are evaluating their internal desktop platform requirements, and looking into methods and scripts to deploy this new operating system.

Here are a few of the members on the team:

• Tim Mintner – Tim Mintner has over fifteen years consulting experience with many of the largest companies in the world on Systems Management and Operating System Deployment.  Most recently, Tim was a Senior Software Development Engineer for Microsoft on the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit and helped ship six versions of MDT that have been downloaded by over 300,000 customers worldwide.  Tim has been an author for Technet Magazine and is a highly rated speaker at Microsoft events such as the Microsoft Management Summit and Microsoft TechEd.  Tim is actively involved in the Systems Management and OS Deployment community and has been recognized as a Microsoft Most Valued Professional for his efforts with User Groups and online communities.
• Keith Garner - Keith Garner has been working in the Puget Sound region at the Microsoft Corporate Headquarters as a Software Developer for fifteen years, mostly in the Windows Product Group, and Microsoft IT, specializing in Windows OS Internals, and Deployment. For the past 4 years, Keith has been working as a consultant with Xtreme Consulting Group, working on several Microsoft projects, including BDD/MDT, and most recently MDT 2010.
• Polly Reese – Polly has almost 20 years of industry experience. Responsible for the delivery and engagement management of Microsoft Consulting Services for the Global Deployment practice including pipeline, revenue, utilization, and delivery management of desktop deployment services worldwide.   Provided leadership, evangelism and education to the global Microsoft deployment expert community.

Xtreme Consulting Deployment Team is the resource for your next deployment project. And we have solutions and resources for a wide range of projects.

• Xtreme Consulting Deployment Team are the experts on MDT 2010. MDT 2010 is the de-facto reference system designed by Microsoft for Windows Deployments in the business environment.
• Xtreme Consulting Services has a large library of common deployment tools and systems ready to be droped into your Corporate environment.
  In some instances, we can setup a fully functional, common deployment (MDT Litetouch) solution on site, and in just hours containing:
  • Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows Server 2003, and Windows Server 2008
  • Microsoft Office Suite, Microsoft Project, Microsoft Visio, and more…
  • PDF Readers, Media Players, Microsoft Silverlight Clients, Anti Virus clients.
  • Runtime Environments like: .NET Frameworks (all versions), Java Runtimes.
  • Server tools like: SQL Server, Sharepoint Server.
  • Development Environments: Visual Studio,
• Xtreme Consulting Services has several Subject Matter Experts on the critically aclaimed Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010.
  • Custom Scripts, configurations, custom wizard pages, etc…
  • Advanced Debugging of complex scenarios, etc..

Let Xtreme Consulting Services Deployment Team help you get your IT infrastructure under control.

Xtreme Consulting Group, Inc. is a business and IT services firm that delivers project management and consulting services to help clients reduce costs, enhance organizational flexibility, and improve performance. The company specializes in project/program management, development infrastructure & engineering planned IT, web design & development, and SharePoint portal development. Xtreme Consulting Group operates throughout the US from their corporate offices in Redmond, WA. More information about Xtreme can be found at www.xtremeconsulting.com