We have several portable Windows CE 6.0 devices that need and updated with SP1 and configured with apps and settings.
Instead of doing this manually on every device, is there any to create an image that can be cloned and redeployed to multiple devices such as with some version of MDT? The devices are all identical hardware.
I am aware that having the variable of DomainJoin will prevent the capture dialog from appearing when running the task. The problem is, even when the options are greyed out due to the domain settings not being applied from a different setting in the workflow it still breaks the task.
E.G.
I am using the database, and have my workflow as such:
[Settings]
Priority=Model, TaskSequenceID, LSettings, CRoles, RApps, LApps, MMApps, MMSettings, Default
Properties=MyCustomProperty
DataBase:
Location Settings: Overall settings for Domain join, wizard skips, etc info per gateway
Role Apps: Apps per role
Make/Model Apps: Apps specific to a piece of hardware
CustomSettings INI:
Model/Task Sequence/Default: I have tried to null out the DomainJoin settings with these variables by adding workgroup join by task ID, Model, etc and nothing seems to work. I've verified in other tasks that these settings take place of what's in the DB, but the DB settings are still there, greyed out and causing an issue.
[X86SYSANDCAP]
JoinDomain=
JoinWorkgroup=WORKGROUP
[VMware Virtual Platform]
JoinDomain=
JoinWorkgroup=WORKGROUP
As shown below the model/TS specify the workgroup (1st pic is normal deploy, 2nd is cap) but the greyed out settings are still having an effect. Skip Capture is set to NO at each level, and when I remove the Domain from the DB it shows up correctly.
Not sure what to do besides removing the domain everytime I want to do a capture, which seems a bit unreasonable and I don;t want my T1s in the DB.
I tried putting domain join information in the Default section of CustomSettings.ini but that breaks my capture task sequence. However, if I put it in the TaskSequence like [006] it doesn't fill in the OU. Also, the userid/password doesn't match what I used. Is that information ignored and only pulled from Bootstrap.ini? I also pass in ADGroup in the task sequence but if the OU portion isn't working i'm assuming that won't work either.
Has anyone else seen this problem? It is fine if the domain join portion is copied to each TS so that capture's still work but I would like it to pass the OU and ADGroup automatically.
I am trying to pass over a variable called OUPATH over from an hta file to SCCM during deployment. How do I ensure this works correctly, I am having to continually test and restart my Virtual Machines and redeploy which is eating up a large amount of time. I have my customsettings.ini file set to grab this info after it calls the webservice. The webservice has been tested and works.
The java code looks like this below, but it obviously isn't working.
function OUPath()
{
var myVal = document.getElementById("ADOU").value;
var outPut = "";
switch (myVal) {
case "1":
outPut = "OU=Administrative,OU=Workstations,DC=imo-online,DC=com";
break;
case "2":
outPut = "OU=Development,OU=Workstations,DC=imo-online,DC=com";
break;
case "3":
outPut = "OU=External,OU=Workstations,DC=imo-online,DC=com";
break;
case "4":
outPut = "OU=IT,OU=Workstations,DC=imo-online,DC=com";
break;
case "5":
outPut = "OU=Restricted,OU=Workstations,DC=imo-online,DC=com";
break;
case "6":
outPut = "OU=Sales,OU=Workstations,DC=imo-online,DC=com";
break;
case "7":
outPut = "OU=Service Computers,OU=Workstations,DC=imo-online,DC=com";
break;
}
alert(outPut);
}The ADOU comes from the hta file here.
<td colspan=1 class="taskTableLeftCell">OU</td><td class="taskTableSpanSecondAndThirdCell"><select name="ADOU" id="ADOU"><option value="1">Administrative</option><option value="2">Developement</option><option value="3">External</option><option value="4">IT</option><option value="5">Restricted</option><option value="6">Sales</option><option value="7">Service Computers</option></select></td>
Hey,
Are USB printer drivers excluded from the driver injection phase. Every time I do a deployment and watch the driver injection phase I can never see it add the printer drivers, so obviously any attached printers need manual intervention to get them working.
I use the Advanced Configuration: Selection Profiles and Database settings.
The Out-of-box drivers structure is:
Out-of-box drivers
...Generic
......NVIDIA
......Brother
...Dell
......Vostro 230
......Vostro 270
I then have a selection profile called 'Dell Vostro 270', which has the 'Generic' folder and all subfolders ticked, as well as the Vostro 270 folder ticked. I then use Make and Model; Make = Dell, Inc. and Model = Vostro 270. The settings for this Make and Model is set to have a Driver Selection Profile = Dell Vostro 270.
These PC's have an add-in NVIDIA card, whose driver is in the Generic\NVIDIA folder. This driver works absolutely fine so driver selection profiles and what-not are fine.
It just does not seem to work with printer drivers. I also have a Samsung printer driver (Generic\Samsung) and I cannot see that driver being injected either during driver injection phase.
Any ideas?
Thanks
PS: Post-deployment, if I manually do right click > Update driver in Computer Management, then point it to \\servername\mdtshare\Out-of-box drivers\Printer it picks up and installs the driver, so the drivers themselves are sound.
Hi,
I'm getting started with MDT 2013 and have an issue with the local administrator account. All machines that I deploy Windows 8.1 to try to auto-login with the ".\administrator" account and then fail during the first login. The standard local "administrator"
account should be auto-logging with the password that is in the unattend.xml files. Obviously the logins are failing because there is no ".\administrator" account on the machine, but why are they trying to login with ".\administrator"
in the first place? This is happening with various OS's in the deployment center and with different task sequences.
The problem is that i am unable to login with local administrator account. When i give the password which i have mention in the task sequence, i get message that Username and password is incorrect. and when i try to login without password with administrator account then i get message that Administrator account is disabled, please contact system administrator.
I also tried to make changes in answer file by editing task sequences and created local account but still i was unable to login.
Thanks for your time
Abhishek
Hi,
Just used MDT to deploy Win 7. OS was imported by pure ISO file (no 3rd party modification).
After deployed, I found there is not available to show "Last logon user". I have to input user name every time.
I checked registry, "dontdisplaylastusername" value is set to "1"
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System]
I have to modify to "0".
But I checked other PC which is installed by ISO is no this problem.
Please advice.
Thanks
We just received new wireless Atom tablets (no Ethernet) running Windows 8.1 Update 1 Pro and we have only been deploying Windows 7 up until now. It may be possible to get USB Ethernet adapters that would allow network deployment, but we would rather just do it all offline especially since we won't have a wired network available at the remote sites we will be deploying them to anyway. Might as well just do everything offline from the beginning.
I'm going to upgrade MDT from 2012 to 2013, manually set up a thick image of one of the tablets with all the apps installed and drivers persistently retained so the deployment task completion can be as fast as possible.
I have deployed Windows 7 using offline USB before, but I have never captured an image to USB. Don't capture sequences look for UNC paths to save the capture to?
I'd like to set up a Sysprep and Capture task sequence for these tablets that can be run entirely offline via USB.
How do you configure a Sysprep and Capture task sequence to send the captured image to a folder on the USB stick rather than a network share UNC path?
I have used MDT for so long however only for client OS upgrade - XP to Windows 7/8.
We wish to use MDT to migrate from Windows 2003 32 Bit to Windows 2012 R2 64 Bit. All servers are virtual on HyperV or VMWare - plan is to use USMT hardlink Migration.
Is this supported? Has anyone used this for server migration?
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I have created a media using selection profile in MDT 2012 update 1, but it is not deploying my physical machine. I get error message that Windows Cannot copy files required for installation. Make Sure all files required for installations are available. However i have successfully deployed Windows & and Windows XP with MDT 2012.
I also used different iso image of vista but still i get same error message.
Regards, Vik Singh "If this thread answered your question, please click on "Mark as Answer"
I'm trying to boot a Windows 8.1 64-bit tablet to MDT so it can start the deployment task sequence using 64-bit media. The USB hard drive is bootable, but the deployment never starts. It exits to a command prompt. No errors are shown on screen.
This is a new deployment task sequence and new hardware being used for the first time. This is also the first time we are deploying any Windows 8.1 image.
Where are the logs stored when it stops before the task sequence even starts? How can I troubleshoot this more directly than experimenting with trial and error changes?
Hello,
I have updated Timezonename=Arabian standard time
UserLocale=ar-om
InputLocale=ar-om
With only Timezonename=Arabian standard time on win 7 timezone and time are properly getting updated however on win 8.1 only timezone getting updated but time is showing 1 hour lesser.
I am using MDT 2013. Any suggestions?
I want to create a single task sequence that can build a new image from scratch using Windows installation media, then install apps and Windows Updates, then sysprep and capture the image so we can then use the fully updated wim file in our standard OS deployment task sequence.
When we have been building the model OS manually from DVD and then doing a separate capture Task Sequence using our WSUS to install approved updates, we have to manually clean the WSUS client ID out of the registry before we run sysprep to avoid the captured image having the WSUS ID from the captured workstation and then duplicating it to every new system that is deployed using this image.
Does the default settings in the build and capture task sequence take care of this or do we still have to add a manual step to clear the SUSID before sysprep runs?
We will be deploying Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8.1 Update 1, Server 2008 R2 and Server 2012 R2 systems.
Hi ，
We have deployed a MDT server that the ip is 192.168.89.22.
But the clint in the Vlan that all computer will get the ip in the subnet 192.168.37.0/24 cannot get the IP by starting up with PXE.
So,i set the value of DHCP Option 66 as 192.168.89.22, DHCP Option 67 as \reminst\Boot\x86\pxeboot.com
After setting options of DHCP ,the clinets in this Vlan can get IP,but then will receive on scrren:
PXE-T04:Access violation
pxe-e36:error received from tftp server
pxe-m0f,exiting Intel Boot Agent.
Is the value of DHCP option 67 correct?
Please help ......Thanks a lot
I am trying to deploy captured image of windows 8.1 using MDT. After deployment i am getting these following errors. However the new deployed operating system works fine and it also has all the installed applications which i have captured. Please tell me why i am getting these errors and how can i remove these errors.
I noticed antivirus is interfering with the deployment workbench and maybe other MDT-related processes. For instance, I am unable to open the unattended.xml file without errors when A/V is running.
What are the recommended files and folders that should be excluded from antivirus scanning on a machine running ADK and MDT 2013?
I noticed antivirus is interfering with the deployment workbench and maybe other MDT-related processes. For instance, I am unable to open the unattended.xml file without errors when A/V is running.
What are the recommended files and folders that should be excluded from antivirus scanning on a machine running ADK and MDT 2013?
I've just installed Windows 8 on a Lenovo ThinkPad T440s using Lenovo's recovery discs. I did not join it to a domain. I logged in as Administrator, navigated to our deployment share, and ran Scripts\LiteTouch.wsf. I selected the new Sysprep and Capture Task Sequence that I just made, told it to upload to DeploymentShare$\Captures, then started the Task Sequence.
It seemed to run fine until after the first reboot. Windows 8 configured the PC for a while, then displayed an error that it had been shut down unexpectedly. I wasn't sure if this was normal, so I just clicked OK. Then I got an error that said "Can not find script file C:\LTIBootstrap.vbs". After clicking OK on that, I am brought to the desktop.
The image cannot be found in DeploymentShare$\Captures. Under the Monitoring section of the DeploymentWorkbench, I can see that MDT thinks the Task Sequence is still running on the machine (though it is not), with progress stuck on step 16 of 23: Execute Sysprep. There are 0 errors and 0 warnings listed.
BDD.log is too long to post all of it, but here's the last few lines in case that's helpful.
<![LOG[BCD> The operation completed successfully.]LOG]!><time="11:20:35.000+000" date="12-26-2014" component="LTIApply" context="" type="1" thread="" file="LTIApply"><![LOG[BCDEdit returned ErrorLevel = 0]LOG]!><time="11:20:35.000+000" date="12-26-2014" component="LTIApply" context="" type="1" thread="" file="LTIApply"><![LOG[Run Command: C:\windows\SYSTEM32\bcdedit.exe /default {d22e7e91-9ee7-46eb-89d7-c5859e4302f0}]LOG]!><time="11:20:35.000+000" date="12-26-2014" component="LTIApply" context="" type="1" thread="" file="LTIApply"><![LOG[BCD> The operation completed successfully.]LOG]!><time="11:20:35.000+000" date="12-26-2014" component="LTIApply" context="" type="1" thread="" file="LTIApply"><![LOG[BCDEdit returned ErrorLevel = 0]LOG]!><time="11:20:36.000+000" date="12-26-2014" component="LTIApply" context="" type="1" thread="" file="LTIApply"><![LOG[Property BootPE is now = True]LOG]!><time="11:20:36.000+000" date="12-26-2014" component="LTIApply" context="" type="1" thread="" file="LTIApply"><![LOG[LTI Windows PE applied successfully]LOG]!><time="11:20:36.000+000" date="12-26-2014" component="LTIApply" context="" type="1" thread="" file="LTIApply"><![LOG[Event 41019 sent: LTI Windows PE applied successfully]LOG]!><time="11:20:36.000+000" date="12-26-2014" component="LTIApply" context="" type="1" thread="" file="LTIApply"><![LOG[LTIApply processing completed successfully.]LOG]!><time="11:20:36.000+000" date="12-26-2014" component="LTIApply" context="" type="1" thread="" file="LTIApply"><![LOG[Event 41001 sent: LTIApply processing completed successfully.]LOG]!><time="11:20:36.000+000" date="12-26-2014" component="LTIApply" context="" type="1" thread="" file="LTIApply">I would greatly appreciate any assistance determining what went wrong and how to correct it. Thank you.
