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Win a free ebook; DeployHappiness is three!

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DeployHappiness turns three today! Since starting this blog, we’ve had several hundred posts, nearly two thousand comments, and a ton of readers! To celebrate, one reader will receive a free ebook!

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How to enter:

Pick one of the fifteen books listed on this page. I either own, reviewed, or edited every book on that page. All make excellent resources and each are thrilling page turners! Topics include Active Directory, Group Policy, System Center, PowerShell, and Deployment. Basically, all of the cool things in IT. There are also two thinking books for our management material folks. 🙂

Come back to this post and leave a comment with your choice of book. If you have trouble accessing the book list, you can head directly to the Amazon affiliate link here: http://astore.amazon.com/deployh-20

The winner will be randomly chosen from the list of comments by using the get-random cmdlet. The winner will be emailed a confirmation and will receive an additional email from Amazon containing the ebook download. The winner’s name will be posted at the end of this page. This giveaway will last for 7 days.

This contest is now closed. Congratulations to Herman who selected Learn System Center Configuration Manager in a Month of Lunches!

Giveaway – Stealing with Pride, Vol. 1: Advanced OSD Customizations for MDT 2013 and ConfigMgr 2012 R2

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DeployHappiness just hit 1000 subscribers! To celebrate, all-around genius and deployment guru Johan Arwidmark has donated a copy of his latest book to one reader of this blog!

Stealing with Pride, Vol. 1: Advanced OSD Customizations for MDT 2013 and ConfigMgr 2012 R2 is the ultimate guide for customizing your environment and taking your OS deployment to a whole new level! It includes detailed instructions on numerous customizations and scripts that you can immediately use.

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It makes the perfect companion to his previous book, Deployment Fundamentals, Vol. 5. This great resource includes step-by-step guides on setting up a completely automated deployment solution with MDT 2013.

But enough talking – let’s get to the giveaway:

Prize: A copy of Stealing with Pride, Vol. 1: Advanced OSD Customizations for MDT 2013 and ConfigMgr 2012 R2

How to Enter: Leave a short comment on this post related to OS deployment. Describe how you currently deploy, how you would like to deploy, an issue you have, etc. When submitting your comment, be sure to include your name and email. If you win, I need a way to contact you!

A random email will be selected (by using PowerShell) on Jan 6th 2015. The winning person will be contacted by email – their name will be added to this post.

And the Winner is: Brian Gladfelter (Tennessee, USA). Thanks to everyone who entered and a huge thank you to Johan for the book donation.

 

Remote GPUpdate: How and When to Use It

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This post is brought to you by Specops Software. What’s this? To enter the GPUpdate Pro Giveaway, continue reading.

You have your new GPO perfectly configured and you’ve linked it to your OUs. Heck, you’ve even made sure that your GPO didn’t have any common configuration issues! But now, you have to wait… 90 minutes… plus up to 30 extra minutes (due to the GPUpdate random interval). While you could run around and manually start the Group Policy refresh, let’s be lazy today and start a remote GPUpdate instead!

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Note: Technically, the lazy option is to just wait. The lazy but intelligent option is to do it remotely. So, be smart about being lazy and use these three methods.

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