<p>I am trying to use MDT 2013 to install windows 7 64bit enterprise on an a dell optiplex 755 as generic network drivers from the install media are compatible. I have successful been able to deploy the OS with the standard client task sequence.
I now wish to include windows updates to the installation. </p><p>I have imported a sample of updates listed in one of the images below to the packages folder. In the task sequence I have made sure the apply patch option in the preinstall phase
was enabled, and the selection profile was all packages. However non of the updates was applied. I then tried again by disabling the apply patch and placed the task for install updates offline in the post install phase, and then tried again in the
state restore phase as a custom task. In all attempts no updates were applied. </p><p><img alt="" src="http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/getfile/420797" /></p><p>My assumption was that the updates
were not being applied because the unattended.xml did not have the packages listed in there. I then added the packages to the unattended.xml and retried the install again, with the apply patch and install updates off line in the post install and state restore
- custom tasks. </p><p>Again, I added the packages to the unattended.xml because they were not being applied in previous attempts, and in all three test cases I receive this error messages. </p><p><img alt="" src="http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/getfile/420793"
/></p>
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MDT 2013 - Having trouble applying update packages keep getting dism.exe error.
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MDT2012 - Deployment failed, the system cannot find the file specified
Hi everybody.
First, excuse me for my english, i think it's not the best thing I'm able to do, but now, I REALLY need help.
I encounter issues with my MDT 2012 Update 1 platform.
I have 5 systems to capture. All systems have 3 partitions (System, softwares, data). Capture is working fine for all parts.
In my Task Sequence, to deploy these images (C, D and E parts), I use a script after the "Install Operating System" which runs imagex to deploy the WIM images for D: and E:.
The script is the following :
"%DeployRoot%\Tools\x64\imagex" /apply "%DeployRoot%\Operating Systems\D_Drive\D_Drive.wim" 1 %DDrive%"
But, for some images, the task fails on the "D" drive deployement. The wizard shows the following error :
Litetouch deployment dailed, return code = -214767259 0x80004005
Failed to run the action: InstallD (ie : the script above)
The system cannot find the file specified. (Error: 00000002; Source: Windows)
The error is on my task which uses imagex to deploy my D and E WIM.
So I looked to see if the file's path was the good one.
And it is !!!
Wizard says that the file couldn't be find, but the file is existing, and in the good path.
For your information, there is no problem when I don't use multicast. Everything is working fine on unicast, not on multicast.
I even encounter this issue if I use my MDT server and my computers on the same switch.
Any help would be gratefull, my client gives me the week to resolve the issue.
Thanks
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MDT install completes but with errors
I'm having an issue with a MDT 2012 image completing 100% successfully. Everything installs and I get into Windows, but when it finishes it fails with 8 errors. See picture below:
I'm confused about what's happening and why. What I did was create a VM with everything in the image I want. I then ran a Sysprep and Capture Task Sequence on the VM. I basically followed this guys step-by-step procedure:
http://bjtechnews.org/2013/08/29/mdt-2012-sysprep-and-capturing-basics-livestream-september-1st/
The good thing is that the image does install, the computer joins the domain, and everything seems to be okay. The bad thing is that I get those errors and I don't understand why. I believe that, among other things, it's saying the sysprep couldn't be completed, but my question is what sysprep?
Ugh, I'm so confused...
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Applications / Security Group Membership
I have a few tasks i would like to automate in my task sequence on MDT 2010 update 1. Any feedback or recomendations would be helpful...
Applications
I have a set of applications which are common to both laptops and desktops. These are deployed using an application bundle. I would like to be able, to do one of two things
- Have the ability to choose additional application as part of the wizard
- If possible, have MDT detect the machine is a laptop, either by WMI or computer name (all laptop names end with the letter "L"), and deploy a set of applications if these conditions are met
Security Groups
We also have a couple of security groups that desktops and laptop needs to be a member of, this is currently a manual task and therefor prone to be missed. As above, is it possible for MDT to recognice the machine is a laptop or desktop then add the computer account to a pre determined list of security groups
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Win7 + IE10 Slipstream error
I am trying to install a test image with IE10 slipstreamed in and getting an error "Windows could not parse or process unattend answer file [C:\windows\Panther\unattend.xml] for pass [specialize]. A component or setting specified in the answer file does not exist." I used an original Win7 Ent SP1 image + IE10 and then imported full source as if from original DVD / ISO. Then created a new sequence and problem still occurs.
I think it is being caused by:
<component name="Microsoft-Windows-IE-InternetExplorer" processorArchitecture="amd64" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="neutral" versionScope="nonSxS" xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
<IEWelcomeMsg>false</IEWelcomeMsg>
</component>
Which I am not sure is a setting I set in MDT setup or a default setting? This setting has been removed from IE10.
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MDT displays cmd before first reboot and after copied Windows files
We are using MDT 2012 to install Windows Server 2008 R2 via network deployment. We have a task sequence which successfully deploy Windows Server 2008 R2 into virtual machines but the same task sequence displays cmd just after copied Window files into disk and before first reboot when we try deployment on physical machine. We need to manually exit from this cmd and then MDT reboot and continue installation, then finish without any errors
I checked also BDD.log and last line is:
lti initiating task sequence-requested reboot
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Multiple OU within the same location (MDT Database)
Using SCCM 2012 SP1 with MDT 2012.1 integrated. There are three locations in separate domains and therefore the computers need to be added into their OU area. No problem - create 3 separate locations in the MDT database and specify each OU
Problem is they have two sub-OUs one for desktop, one for laptops, so I'm trying to work out how to automate it (zero touch)
Ideally I need to create TWO OU entries for each location if islaptop or isdesktop (MDT knows whether its a laptop or desktop), but how to do it ??
Could I maybe add some settings into customsettings.ini ?
Ian Burnell, London (UK)
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How do you set default programs for all users when deploying Windows 8.1?
I have my Windows 8.1 image set up the way I want including the start screen, theme, etc. But how can I set the default programs for all users. Most of out computers are non-touch and I want the desktop apps (e.g. Windows Photo Viewer), not the store apps
to be the default for opening pictures, videos, etc. Can that be done?
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Core component in image
Hi ,
Is it a best practice to keep VC ++ reditributable for both x64 and x32 version (2008,2010,2012) in a image?
OS image will be x64 and might run x86 applications as well.
Regards,
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Two Deployment Shares -- One boot.wim
No pun intended with the title :) I'm wondering is it possible to have two deployment shares and use only one boot.wim. They're on two different domains, I'm wondering if I had any options to keep this from being a boot.wim for each share, perhaps an exit script or switching between bootstraps? Any ideas would be appreciated, thanks!
Ryan
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MDT image W7x64 onto GOP only system?
Windows7 setup does not support GOP, it requires VGA, but I'm wondering if anyone's tried laying down a prepped W7x64 image down on a GOP only (no VGA emulation available in bios/uefi setup) system?
I just had my 1st 100% UEFI system come through our lab, no CMS no VGA emulation available, but I only have a x86 W7 image in my current production MDT environment, so I was wondering if a x64 image could be dropped onto it or not.
I'd have to create a whole new MDT lab environment just to test this myself as I don't have exclusive rights to modify the production MDT workbench without impacting others, so it'd be several days worth of work for potentially no benefit....so that's why
i'm hoping someone has already tried this and can comment.
On the 1 hand I'm certain the image itself would lay down, but after the first boot when it goes into Mini-Setup I'm thinking the install engine will just hang when the video driver is initialized the way a DVD or USB UEFI install does.
Can anyone confirm / deny this?
GOP at boot time to my best understanding is only supported by W8, MacOSX & some of the newer rev Linux distro's.
So yeah I'm basically wondering if laying down a pre-prepared image would bypass the issue whereby the W7 installation engine only supports VGA not GOP video display or if mini-setup would still cause it to hang indefinitely.
Thoughts?
Rev
P.S. This post isn't about GPT vs MBR or CMS vs UEFI I understand those concepts and have successfully installed W7x64 from UEFI modified USB boot media on a UEFI system with GPT HDD, it's *only* about if the VGA vs GOP limitation of W7 can be overcome via
MDT image, since it fails via traditional full setup.
TIA
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WinPE 5.0 Browseforfolder
Hey everyone,
The following problem occurs when I want to use USMT to replace the workstation.
After I select 'Specify whether to restore user data' I found that there is a 'Browse' button which is hidden. I found that when you adapt theDeployWiz_UserDataRestore.xml and more specific the following line
Normal
<input type="button" id="StatePathBrowse" style="display: none;" onclick="javascript:StatePath.value = BrowseForFolder(StatePath.value);" Value="Browse" disabled /><br/>(Full network path to previously saved USMT data files).<br/>
Delete style="display: none;"
<input type="button" id="StatePathBrowse" onclick="javascript:StatePath.value = BrowseForFolder(StatePath.value);" Value="Browse" disabled /><br/>(Full network path to previously saved USMT data files).<br/>
Then you get this image 'browseforfolder-1.PNG' but when I click 'Browse' the popup rest 'blank' like there is no explorer.exe loading. *'browseforfolder-2.PNG'
On the internet I found these 2 answers but they didn't work for me
http://reboot.pro/to...r-folder-error/
This is an adaption for DeployWiz_UserDataRestore.vbs
http://social.techne...-2010?forum=mdt
Any help is much appreciated ...
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MDT 2012 - Failed to Run Action: Install Operating System Access is Denied (Error: 0000005; Source: Windows)
Unable to deploy any image with WIM file. Vanilla or Custom Image gives the following error:
ZTI Error – Unhandled error returned by LTIApply: invalid procedure call or argument (5)
Litetouch deployment failed, Return code = -2147467259 0x80004005
Failed to run action: Install Operating System.
Access is denied (Error: 00000005; Source: Windows)
Tried Giving Everyone Full rights to the deployment share
Rebooted Server
Updated Deployment Share
Any ideas would be great!
Thanks
Rick
Richard Ray
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MDT 2012 Format & Partition
Question is this. Already using Microsoft Deployment Toolikt, but I can not solve one problem.
Have a client computer. It has one hard drive, which is divided into 2 partitions (C, D). In C of course is a system, the disk D - all user data.
So how to set the Task Sequence install Windows 7, so it did not remove all partitions & creating OSDisk with volume equal to the entire disk? That is, you can install the operating system on drive C, with no change in partition D.
I tried to disable default task "Format And Partition", added the script with diskpart (read somewhere on the forums):
select disk 0
select partition 1
format fs=NTFS Label="System" Quick
exit
As a result, an error that can not be found boot partition (FAILURE: Boot Drive was not found, required?)
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Any tool or tip for when creating a selection profile based on a task sequence.
I need to create a USB boot media. I've already have a task sequence that deploys fine when using UNC method.
This TS have a bunch of single applications to install. Is there a tool that can read the TS and create a selection profile based on what is needed for this TS to deploy over USB media.
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Clearing out duplicate drivers for a specific Hardware ID
I've been struggling for a while to get a driver that works for an old model of network card. I had added in various drivers from the vendors website, and now the hardware vendor has supplied me with an older version of the driver that they expect will work.
Now, I would like to find all the drivers for a specific hardware ID in MDT and clear them out, and then add in the one that I have from the vendor.
What's the best way to do this, please?
One option that I found was this script which highlighted duplicate or superseded drivers for MDT - but the script is now longer available from the link in the article and I can't find copies of it with google. Would anyone know of anything similar?
http://xtremeconsulting.com/blog/duplicate-driver-tool/
Of course, if there's an easier way to do it, that would be even better!
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Copy Shortcuts to the Windows 7 Taskbar using MDT
I would like to copy items to the Windows 7 taskbar for all users, and do this during deployment as part of a task sequence. Does anyone know if this can be done. I found a script called pinItem.vbs, but do not know if it could be done from a TS, nor how it would be.
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How to copy multiple application folders to target PC
Hello-
In short here's what I need (want) to do... I want to copy 3-4 applications folders from MDT deployment share to the target PC and run install locally. The problem for one is that the install breaks the connection to MDT share thus causing the install to fail. [Cisco VPN Client]. One other app is install using a .cmd command with special internal switches and won't install either.
Thx J-Woo
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Drivers not being injected for certain Laptop model
Hi all
I am having difficulty getting a new laptop to deploy correctly. I am using MDT 2012 U1.
I use the DriverGroup001 variable to set the driver group and inject the specific drivers required, and this works perfectly for 10 other models. However we recently acquired some Dell Latitude E7240's and am experiencing a weird problem.
When deploying from our Production share, the drivers are not injected in the PE stage. However I have tried to deploy the same laptop using our completely separate test network and the drivers are deployed correctly. I have also created a separate test
share on our live network (with the same customsettings.ini) and the drivers deploy correctly here as well?! I have placed the drivers in a selection profile to specifically target them during deployment and they are still not injected. Inluding the drivers
in the PE image has also not worked.
So I have narrowed the problem down (I think) to a particular MDT share. I've deleted all the drivers in this share and readded the 7240 drivers with no luck. I've closed the share, rebooted the server and added the drivers with still no luck.
Looking at the logs I can see why I think it is failing, here are the relevant sections:
Unsuccessful deployment in production share:
Property DriverGroup001 is now = Windows 7\x64\Dell Inc.\Latitude E7240 ZTISetVariable 20/02/2014 09:17:12 0 (0x0000) ZTISetVariable processing completed successfully. ZTISetVariable 20/02/2014 09:17:12 0 (0x0000) Event 41001 sent: ZTISetVariable processing completed successfully. ZTISetVariable 20/02/2014 09:17:12 0 (0x0000) Processing drivers for an X64 operating system. ZTIDrivers 20/02/2014 09:17:12 0 (0x0000) OSDTargetDriveCache was determined earlier : C: ZTIDrivers 20/02/2014 09:17:12 0 (0x0000) Property OSDTargetDriveCache is now = C: ZTIDrivers 20/02/2014 09:17:12 0 (0x0000) Property OSDisk is now = C: ZTIDrivers 20/02/2014 09:17:12 0 (0x0000) Property DriverCleanup is now = DONE ZTIDrivers 20/02/2014 09:17:12 0 (0x0000) Compare Image processor Type with Original [X64] = [X64]. ZTIDrivers 20/02/2014 09:17:12 0 (0x0000) Open Control File: Drivers ZTIDrivers 20/02/2014 09:17:12 0 (0x0000) Filtered.Count: 0 ZTIDrivers 20/02/2014 09:17:13 0 (0x0000) Updating downlevel OS configuration. ZTIDrivers 20/02/2014 09:17:13 0 (0x0000) Vista identified, skipping update of Device Path ZTIDrivers 20/02/2014 09:17:13 0 (0x0000) ZTIDrivers processing completed successfully. ZTIDrivers 20/02/2014 09:17:13 0 (0x0000)
Successful deployment in test share:
Setting variable DriverGroup001 to value Windows 7\x64\Dell Inc.\Latitude E7240 ZTISetVariable 19/02/2014 17:01:23 0 (0x0000) Property DriverGroup001 is now = Windows 7\x64\Dell Inc.\Latitude E7240 ZTISetVariable 19/02/2014 17:01:23 0 (0x0000) ZTISetVariable processing completed successfully. ZTISetVariable 19/02/2014 17:01:23 0 (0x0000) Event 41001 sent: ZTISetVariable processing completed successfully. ZTISetVariable 19/02/2014 17:01:23 0 (0x0000) Processing drivers for an X64 operating system. ZTIDrivers 19/02/2014 17:01:23 0 (0x0000) OSDTargetDriveCache was determined earlier : C: ZTIDrivers 19/02/2014 17:01:23 0 (0x0000) Property OSDTargetDriveCache is now = C: ZTIDrivers 19/02/2014 17:01:23 0 (0x0000) Property OSDisk is now = C: ZTIDrivers 19/02/2014 17:01:23 0 (0x0000) Property DriverCleanup is now = DONE ZTIDrivers 19/02/2014 17:01:23 0 (0x0000) Compare Image processor Type with Original [X64] = [X64]. ZTIDrivers 19/02/2014 17:01:23 0 (0x0000) Open Control File: Drivers ZTIDrivers 19/02/2014 17:01:23 0 (0x0000) Filtered.Count: 136 ZTIDrivers 19/02/2014 17:01:23 0 (0x0000)
For reasons I cannot figure out, the unsuccessful deployment doesn't find any drivers?? (filtered.count: 0)
Can anybody help me with this issue? I have been trying the best part of 3 days to fix this and any help would be incredibly appreciated!
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MDT 2012 update 1 auto login not working after recover from domain
I have two domains. The old domain is a single label domain and when running the deployment task sequence it joins the domain and auto logs in as local admin no problem. When I change the same task sequence to join the new . local domain the pc joins
the domain but fails to login as local admin. I get unknown user name or password. I hit ctrl +ALt+del and it is trying to login as the domain\administrator. Local admin password is correct in the unattend.xml. I have the PC's going to the "computers"
Container when joining the domain. Any help would be much appreciated.
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