Hello,
I created and captured a Windows 10 Reference Build. During my build process I removed some of the Windows 10 built in Apps using a PS command. I made some changes to the profile. When I bring down the image I am seeing the profile changes are there but the built in Apps are back! I was unable to find a place in the unattended file to remove these apps. So does that mean I need to remove these apps each time I build new computer or do I need to do it a different way?<o:p></o:p>
Thanks
I posted this issue once before. I created USB drives so we all can connect to MDT. It works great but after the last DS Update, it takes several minutes for the boxes to come up about the Customsettings and Rules, and eventually the TS Menu.
A previous reply to my post had said to regenerate the boot file, but as I do, I still see what seems like every single driver in MDT getting added to the boot file. I am not using any profiles for drivers. I use Total Control and have driver-specific folders with WMIC. Yet, right now I see the boot file getting updated with hundreds of INF files which I imagine is what's taking the boot up to MDT so long.
I do have WinPE drivers used to get the pc's to MDT to begin with but not hundreds of drivers. How can I stop ALL drivers from being added to my boot file?
I'm looking to get client systems to boot to the Default (MDTMAIN) if their DefaultGateway is not listed..... Would I just swap the Priority=? See my current Boot.ini and Rules
[Settings]
Priority=DefaultGateway, Default
[DefaultGateway]
10.20.200.1=DENDATA
10.25.240.1=PHDDATA
10.18.8.1=PHXDATA
10.19.0.1=SEADATA
10.20.84.1=MINDATA
10.20.104.1=MI9DATA
[DENDATA]
DeployRoot=\\MDT1\IMAGE$
[PHDDATA]
DeployRoot=\\MDT2\IMAGE$
[PHXDATA}
DeployRoot=\\MDT3\IMAGE$
[SEADATA]
DeployRoot=\\MDT4\IMAGE$
[MINDATA]
DeployRoot=\\MDT5\IMAGE$
[MI9DATA]
DeployRoot=\\MDT6\IMAGE$
[Default]
DeployRoot=\\MDTMAIN\Deploymentshare2$
Any feedback would be helpful.
Hi All,
As part of deploying the anniversary update I wish to get MDT up to the latest 8443. What I am unsure about is the post-installation steps to ensure my TS are using the latest MDT.
My guess is that I have to:
* Run the "Configure ConfigMgr Integration" start-menu shortcut and complete the wizard.
* Generate new MDT Toolkit Package and inject new MDT binaries into my WinPE image by running the "Create MDT Task Sequence" wizard from ConfigMgr console.
* Distribute new wim and MDT package to DPs.
* Discard newly created TS. Then go into my old TS and update the "Use Toolkit Package" steps to reference new package.
Thoughts?
We are using MDT USB based installation.As part of the task sequence we are planing to add a step that read a excel sheet from network location.This excel sheet have computer name keybord layout,applications for each machines.
based on the data mentioned keyboard layout and application is installed in the task sequence.Idea is to populate the MDT variables with values taken from the excel sheet.
Question : At what stage does language settings,keyboard settings,etc gets applied in the MDT task sequence?
Question : if this settings are applied at WIM applying step then how can i get excel sheet read at initial stage itself of the task sequence ? Does MDT boot media support any way to read excel sheet ?
verification
I am facing a problem where logs are not getting printed in command prompt for Windows 2012 R2 & 2016. Same application when i run in 2008 or Linux it does print logs in dos prompt. Could you please help me what causing this. Do i need to do any configuration in 20012 R2.
Does anyone know what changes has been happened in dos from 2008 -> 2012 R2.
I have updated a few images in MDT and I removed the old tasks associated with the old captures and then built new ones.
When we boot to the MDT wizard and go to the task sequence, I have removed the deploy cisco anyconnect VPN and the deploy windows 7 x64 deploy from MDT 2013. I have updated the deployment share and updated the light touch files on the WDS Server but
when you boot off the wds server and go to this screen they are still listed. Just wondering why I am still seeing them in this window if I completely removed them from the MDT list.
What is the proper way to update images and update tasks to point to them?
Hello,
when I deploy windows 10 the TS copies drivers, installing operating system, and restart and login to to local account after that TS wont continue it stops before state restore phase.Am I missing anything in WIndows 10 ? I went through BDD log(attached), but couldn't find anything.
Hello,
I do not know if MDT will help me accomplish my task, but I'll explain here. Here is the scenario: I have created Task Sequence for my running 100 computers with C and d drives. Where users stored data in D drive. I used Command line diskpart /s "%scriptroot%\FormatCDriveOnly.txt" for format c drive only to avoid data loss in d drive, which works perfectly. Now i have purchased some new computers with fresh HDD and no partition. How TS will detect if it is new pc make c drive 100 GB and rest d drive and apply OS in c only. But in my old computers it also works without affecting data in D Drive.
Can someone give me a hand here?
Thanks,
I have this hunk of code in USMT and its not working - its at the very end of MigUsers, just before the </migration> tag. This is very similar to what I have done in the past successfully, I just don't see my error. The formats are not being excluded.
<component context="System" type="Documents"><displayName>blockedformats</displayName><role role="Data"><rules><unconditionalExclude><objectSet><script>MigXmlHelper.GenerateDrivePatterns ("* [*.aac]", "Fixed")</script><script>MigXmlHelper.GenerateDrivePatterns ("* [*.mp3]", "Fixed")</script><script>MigXmlHelper.GenerateDrivePatterns ("* [*.m4a]", "Fixed")</script><script>MigXmlHelper.GenerateDrivePatterns ("* [*.vhdx]", "Fixed")</script><script>MigXmlHelper.GenerateDrivePatterns ("* [*.vmdk]", "Fixed")</script><script>MigXmlHelper.GenerateDrivePatterns ("* [*.vhd]", "Fixed")</script></objectSet></unconditionalExclude></rules></role></component>I know this is not specifically a MDT issue, but I figured that the knowledgeable people would be in this forum.
I am trying to automate the creation of ISO files. I have a PowerShell script that works fine modifying a normal distribution to contain my modification, such as driver files. It makes use of the oscdimg.exe file from the ADK.
But I am having difficulty getting the copype command to work within either PowerShell or a simple command window. It works exactly as expected when I call it up in the Deployment and Imaging Tools Environment command window. In either a PowerShell window or a simple command window, I always get the error that amd64 architecture was not found. The command apparently is getting properly parsed that it recognizes my 'amd64' parameter, but it is missing something else.
I noticed that the path in the Deployment and Imaging Tools Environment window was different from my command and PowerShell windows, so I modified the path to be the same in each environment. Still no go - same error. So I must be missing something else that is set in the Deployment and Imaging Tools Environment window.
Any hints about what else I can try are appreciated.
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After the reboot deployment wont continue
here are the final logs
<![LOG[ResourceDrive = Z:]LOG]!><time="14:32:28.000+000" date="02-03-2017" component="LiteTouch" context="" type="1" thread="" file="LiteTouch">
<![LOG[SMS Task Sequencer found at \\WDSProd01\DeploymentShare$\Tools\X64, copying to C:\MININT\Tools\X64]LOG]!><time="14:32:28.000+000" date="02-03-2017" component="LiteTouch" context="" type="1"
thread="" file="LiteTouch">
<![LOG[Copying \\WDSProd01\DeploymentShare$\Tools\X64\CcmCore.dll to C:\MININT\Tools\X64\CcmCore.dll]LOG]!><time="14:32:28.000+000" date="02-03-2017" component="LiteTouch" context="" type="1" thread=""
file="LiteTouch">
<![LOG[Copying \\WDSProd01\DeploymentShare$\Tools\X64\CcmUtilLib.dll to C:\MININT\Tools\X64\CcmUtilLib.dll]LOG]!><time="14:32:29.000+000" date="02-03-2017" component="LiteTouch" context="" type="1"
thread="" file="LiteTouch">
<![LOG[Copying \\WDSProd01\DeploymentShare$\Tools\X64\Smsboot.exe to C:\MININT\Tools\X64\Smsboot.exe]LOG]!><time="14:32:29.000+000" date="02-03-2017" component="LiteTouch" context="" type="1" thread=""
file="LiteTouch">
<![LOG[Copying \\WDSProd01\DeploymentShare$\Tools\X64\SmsCore.dll to C:\MININT\Tools\X64\SmsCore.dll]LOG]!><time="14:32:29.000+000" date="02-03-2017" component="LiteTouch" context="" type="1" thread=""
file="LiteTouch">
<![LOG[Copying \\WDSProd01\DeploymentShare$\Tools\X64\TsCore.dll to C:\MININT\Tools\X64\TsCore.dll]LOG]!><time="14:32:29.000+000" date="02-03-2017" component="LiteTouch" context="" type="1" thread=""
file="LiteTouch">
<![LOG[Copying \\WDSProd01\DeploymentShare$\Tools\X64\TSEnv.exe to C:\MININT\Tools\X64\TSEnv.exe]LOG]!><time="14:32:30.000+000" date="02-03-2017" component="LiteTouch" context="" type="1" thread=""
file="LiteTouch">
<![LOG[Copying \\WDSProd01\DeploymentShare$\Tools\X64\TsManager.exe to C:\MININT\Tools\X64\TsManager.exe]LOG]!><time="14:32:30.000+000" date="02-03-2017" component="LiteTouch" context="" type="1"
thread="" file="LiteTouch">
<![LOG[Copying \\WDSProd01\DeploymentShare$\Tools\X64\TsmBootstrap.exe to C:\MININT\Tools\X64\TsmBootstrap.exe]LOG]!><time="14:32:30.000+000" date="02-03-2017" component="LiteTouch" context="" type="1"
thread="" file="LiteTouch">
<![LOG[Copying \\WDSProd01\DeploymentShare$\Tools\X64\TsMessaging.dll to C:\MININT\Tools\X64\TsMessaging.dll]LOG]!><time="14:32:30.000+000" date="02-03-2017" component="LiteTouch" context="" type="1"
thread="" file="LiteTouch">
<![LOG[Copying \\WDSProd01\DeploymentShare$\Tools\X64\TsProgressUI.exe to C:\MININT\Tools\X64\TsProgressUI.exe]LOG]!><time="14:32:30.000+000" date="02-03-2017" component="LiteTouch" context="" type="1"
thread="" file="LiteTouch">
<![LOG[Copying \\WDSProd01\DeploymentShare$\Tools\X64\TSResNlc.dll to C:\MININT\Tools\X64\TSResNlc.dll]LOG]!><time="14:32:31.000+000" date="02-03-2017" component="LiteTouch" context="" type="1"
thread="" file="LiteTouch">
<![LOG[Copying \\WDSProd01\DeploymentShare$\Tools\X64\msvcp120.dll to C:\MININT\Tools\X64\msvcp120.dll]LOG]!><time="14:32:31.000+000" date="02-03-2017" component="LiteTouch" context="" type="1"
thread="" file="LiteTouch">
<![LOG[Copying \\WDSProd01\DeploymentShare$\Tools\X64\msvcr120.dll to C:\MININT\Tools\X64\msvcr120.dll]LOG]!><time="14:32:31.000+000" date="02-03-2017" component="LiteTouch" context="" type="1"
thread="" file="LiteTouch">
<![LOG[Copying \\WDSProd01\DeploymentShare$\Tools\X64\CommonUtils.dll to C:\MININT\Tools\X64\CommonUtils.dll]LOG]!><time="14:32:31.000+000" date="02-03-2017" component="LiteTouch" context="" type="1"
thread="" file="LiteTouch">
<![LOG[Copying \\WDSProd01\DeploymentShare$\Tools\X64\ccmgencert.dll to C:\MININT\Tools\X64\ccmgencert.dll]LOG]!><time="14:32:31.000+000" date="02-03-2017" component="LiteTouch" context="" type="1"
thread="" file="LiteTouch">
<![LOG[Copying \\WDSProd01\DeploymentShare$\Tools\X64\00000409\tsres.dll to C:\MININT\Tools\X64\00000409\tsres.dll]LOG]!><time="14:32:31.000+000" date="02-03-2017" component="LiteTouch" context="" type="1"
thread="" file="LiteTouch">
<![LOG[Copying \\WDSProd01\DeploymentShare$\Control\WIN10-X64-001\TS.XML to C:\MININT\Tools\X64]LOG]!><time="14:32:31.000+000" date="02-03-2017" component="LiteTouch" context="" type="1" thread=""
file="LiteTouch">
<![LOG[Copying C:\MININT\SMSOSD\OSDLOGS\VARIABLES.DAT to C:\MININT\Tools\X64\VARIABLES.DAT]LOG]!><time="14:32:32.000+000" date="02-03-2017" component="LiteTouch" context="" type="1" thread=""
file="LiteTouch">
Thanks
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I'm using Windows 10 1607, MDT 8443, ADK 1607 and I deploy many different machines (Surface Pro 4, Dell 5 and 7 series, Lenovo X260 etc.). Randomly deployments fail with different machines (MDT HTA random freeze, task sequence not ending correctly and wizard just disappeared). I started to think that could it be the Windows Update that is causing these errors when it's autoupdating eg. NIC driver and it will cause MDT to lose network connection to deployment share. I'm using WSUS to deploy updates during task sequence but Windows 10 is maybe ignoring this and still connects to Windows Update directly.
I'm testing to add this command to unattend.xml. It should disable the automatic driver update feature.
<RunSynchronousCommand wcm:action="add"><Description>Disable automatic driver update</Description><Order>5</Order><Path>reg add HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\DriverSearching /v SearchOrderConfig /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f</Path></RunSynchronousCommand>Or I just stop the machines from reaching internet before the deployment is ready.
Windows 7 feels much more stable when deploying it with MDT than Windows 10.
I'm currently using MDT 2013 Update 1 (6.3.8298.1000) to deploy Windows 7 clients in my org. Recently, I wanted to branch out and add a second task sequence (standard client deployment type) that applies a different image that includes additional software for a specific subset of users.
To do so, I created a brand-new task sequence and essentially duplicated all steps from the single one that I've been using quite successfully, only with a smaller set of computer models and the alternative (and larger) captured image.
For some reason, this new task sequence does not inject drivers--it completely skips over the driver selection. I use DriverGroups in my task sequences (as outlined here: https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/askcore/2013/05/09/how-to-manage-out-of-box-drivers-with-the-use-of-model-specific-driver-groups-in-microsoft-deployment-toolkit-2012-update-1/), and again in my original TS this works wonderfully well.
Some of these machines have LSI or PERC RAID controllers, so while the image can be copied to drives (as the storage drivers have been added to the WinPE boot image), when Windows attempts to boot the first time it has no drivers for storage, and thus BSoDs repeatedly.
I'm really not sure where to go with this one--has anyone else run in to an issue like this?
Lenovo provides these "Deployment Recipe Cards" (https://download.lenovo.com/cdrt/recipes/tp_t460_w764.pdf) which include Model queries likes "SELECT * FROM Win32_ComputerSystemProduct WHERE Version = 'ThinkPad T460'".
However, I'm confused on how to use them, for the past year, I've been used driver packages to the specific models we have been getting, so the Model string is things like "20FN002NUS", etc. So the Out-of-Box driver structure can get out of hand.
I would like to use these queries to just have a T460, T450, T440, T470, X260, etc. I can't use a database of any kind in our environment. My Task Sequence is setup to install drivers from the selection profile. The Selection Profile is Operating system
and then Model based. I see in the task sequence where I can do a WMI query but that just adds an individual model query (at least it seems on the surface).
How can I use these queries within MDT 2013 without a model database, or modify the base deployment scripts? We are doing Windows 7 and 10 at this point.
Thanks,
Bob
Context:
So I have two tasks in my TS that I have set to "Run this step as the following account". The tasks do two things, first it moves the imaged PC out from a staged OU that has no policies applied to it to an OU that was selected from the Domain OU List, and second it uses a VBS script to update the computer objects domain description.
Issue:
Checking the smsts.log, here's what I find...
Failed to run the action: Set - AD Description.
We can't sign you in with this credential because your domain isn't available. Make sure your device is connected to your organization's network and try again. If you previously signed in on this device with another credential, you can sign in with that
credential. (Error: 0000051F; Source: Windows)
This doesn't happen every time though. Out of 8 deployments, all connected to the same switch/network, about two will fail on these two steps ONLY. The deployment completes normally and the summary screen says there were no errors, no matter if it failed or not.
Not a big deal if it continues on error... but why are some deployments failing on this task and others not? We deploy from multiple sites, using different types of equipment, but the process is all the same. Across all other sites, this is still an issue, ONLY with these two tasks.
Hi There,
I have a question. In my customsettings.ini i have SkipComputerName set to NO. This gives me the option manually change the hostname. After the complet installation is done, i noticed that the Computername is not changed.
Does anyone has an explanation for this?
By the way, i am new to this ;)
Thanks!!
Hello,
I'm new to MDT and I'm sorry in case the issue is obvious, but I was unable to find an answer in the internet that works. I just can't get a simple cmd script to run from the TS. I get the following error when the TS is done:
Litetouch deployment failed, Return Code = -2147467259 0x80004005
When opening the console with F8 from the client and entering the command from the TS manually, the script works. This is the script I try to run:
cd "%~dp0"
for /f "tokens=2 delims==" %%a in ('wmic csproduct list /format ^|find /I "Name="') do set _Model=%%a
set _BIOSTool=BCU\BiosConfigUtility64.exe
set _Settings=%_Model%\BIOSSettings.txt
set _PrePwd=Password\00_pwd.bin
set _Pwd=Password\01_pwd.bin"%_BIOSTool%" /nspwdfile:"%_PrePwd%""%_BIOSTool%" /cspwdfile:"%_PrePwd%" /advanced /SetConfig:"%_Settings%""%_BIOSTool%" /cspwdfile:"%_PrePwd%" /nspwdfile:"%_Pwd%"I also tried to run something simlple as this:
echo "Hello"
But I got the same error. I checked all log files which get generated through this process, but I can't get a proper error message. The permission for the share is correctly set, I tested this from the client from the console. So I asume there must be an issue with my TS. I just have a "Run Command Line" step in it with the following values:
I'm glad for your feedbacks. Thank you.
