Troubleshooting Windows Deployments 2012-09-11 - TechNet Blogs

Introduction
The Windows deployment process contains many moving parts – many tools and utilities, scripts, and other
pieces stitched together into a complete end-to-end deployment process. In a perfect world, all of these
parts would work perfectly and there would never been any issues that require troubleshooting.
But most of us realize that “perfection” cannot be achieved. That means we will need to do troubleshooting.
So how do you do this effectively Well, there are really two ways:
Learn through your own experiences.
Learn through the experiences of others.
So which is the best Neither, as you need to be able to do both. You want to leverage the experience of
others while also learning how to investigate your own unique issues without depending on others to do it
for you.
So the goal of this document – which over time will hopefully grow into a book – is to gather up as many of
these experiences as possible. That includes experiences around specific problems and solutions, as well as
techniques for getting to the root cause even for uncommon issues that no one has seen before. Combine
that with some consolidated reference materials and links to additional sources and hopefully we will end up
with something useful.
It sounds good in theory, we’ll see how that works out over time.
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