I am getting an error at the end of a Sysprep and capture TS, after sysprep runs and when the machine boots Windows 7 for the first time. It says "Can not find script file "C:\LTIBootstrap.vbs".  If I click ok the desktop is displayed.

I'm not sure if it's related but previously I had captured an image of this machine using a custom TS that only captures and does not sysprep, here's the TS:

When I was ready to sysprep I created a sysprep and capture TS, ran that, the machine uploads, reboots and then I get this error.

Hi 

We are deploying a custom captured image on  Surface Pro 3 using a  using MDT 2013. 
Every time i deploy a image there is a new "Windows Boot Manager" entry created and same is visible when you try to boot from a device. 

The below post talks about the same issue but option given is to use bcdedit
http://www.windows-noob.com/forums/index.php?/topic/7817-multiple-windows-boot-manager-entries-under-uefi-section/

The below post says that Dell would be fixing it in future BIOS releases. 
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/192596f1-1c68-4c4b-8b0f-21b279a79403/eufi-options-multiple-windows-boot-manager-entries?forum=mdt

Is it a bug with the surface pro 3 UEFI or am i doing something wrong? 
We are using the same image to deploy ON Lenovo Thinkpad 10 but i dont see this issue.

BCDEdit /deletevalue might be an option but want to know if it is a known bug or something wrong with the way i am doing.

UK

Hi,

I created a deploymentShare

Set the OutOfBox drivers by: Make and Model of Computer

NOT using WDS

Boot pc clinet with winPE image

after running up Os that was deployed for first time

I got this error msg:

I'm Using Intel motherboard dh61ww deploying Win7 64bit Os

What's the problem?

What I'm doing wrong?

Please help me

Thanks.

Hello All,

I've been integrating HP SPP with MDT to deploy OS 2012 on HP servers. would anyone please help me to understand how to integrate similar deployment pack for Dell servers. I do not know but think that dell has deployment pack which is same as HP has SPP.

anyone has done it before or have any idea as to how to download, configure, run it on MDT... please provide info.

Thanks in advance!

Hi everyone..

can I use an external HDD to host my MDT deployment share.. Basically, I don't have enough drive space in my laptop to host the deployment share & the WIM's/Apps...

thanks in advance..

afternoon guys..

I've successfully enabled MDT monitoring feature for my SCCM/MDT integrated task sequences using these--

http://www.deploymentresearch.com/Research/tabid/62/EntryId/140/Configuring-MDT-Monitoring-Behind-the-scenes.aspx

http://blogs.technet.com/b/mniehaus/archive/2012/05/10/troubleshooting-mdt-2012-monitoring.aspx

However when all my monitoring are getting stuck at 95% and I don't get to see a 100% completion status although the machines do get deployed successfully.

Don't see any errors/failures, all looks good with 41001 events everywhere in ztigather..

\\thanks in advance.

Since 2010 we have been using WDS to build, capture and deploy our image across our organisation (A High School) which has worked well enough. While WDS can do all this the build and capture is a little clunky and relies on you to manually installing all programmes and then mounting the WIM file and inject the drivers so I have moved us onto MDT for the build and capture before importing the finished WIM file into WDS for deployment.

This has worked much better as MDT makes it much quicker to get an image up and going (programme silent installs, testing is much quicker etc) and drive management is as simple as telling MDT to put ALL the drivers you want into the image but I have been reading that you should link MDT and WDS together.

I followed the instruction and imported the LiteTouchPE wim file into WDS and we are able to PXE boot right into MDT and either make a new image or capture the one we are working on but I am trying to automate the deployment so it is more like what we have when just using WDS for deployment. Because I want to retain the ability to use MDT to make a new image I cannot customise the customesettings.ini file too much and instead I am relying on MDT task sequences for must of the customisations.

Currently all our systems are pre-staged into WDS (I think it is actually Active Directory at the end of the day but you use wdsutil to pre-stage them) so when we boot into PXE WDS deploys and configures the machines using WDSClientUnattend and ImageUnattend XML file so that once the deployment is finished it is sitting at the logon screen waiting for the user to login already joined to the domain and our wireless network.

I am having trouble trying to achieve this same result using our WDS + MDT combo with the main sticking point being trying to re-join the computer back to the domain (we re-image machines constantly so re-join back to the domain is a must). I wrote/found a PowerShell script that does the domain join but because an account already exists (all our machines are pre-staged under their service tag and GUID) it throws an error about their already being an account with that name (the computer still appear to join the domain and I can logon using my domain account). Because of this error MDT borks the deployment and doesn't finish up and complains about deployment being in progress etc.

Is using WDS to boot the LiteTouchPE and then deploying through MDT the best way or are we better off going back to using MDT to do the build and capture and then using WDS and it's pre-staging to do the deploy? I really like that with MDT I can have a little more control over driver deployment (recently had a problem where we got a new laptop and injecting the new drivers into the WIM broke the entire image for all our machines except the new one) and software at the time of the re-image (I cannot install the Lenovo hotkey software in a virtual machine because it does a hardware check and fails to install so either the entire image needs to be made on a Lenovo or the software doesn't get installed).

I am currently making a Windows 8.1.1 x64 Enterprise SOE/MOE/whatever you would like to call it using MDT 2013 with WDS running on Windows Server 2012 R2 x64.

I forgot to turn off Sleep mode in source image...

What line I should enter in CS.ini to disable it or may be just in TS? Detailed answer if possible :)

"When you hit a wrong note it's the next note that makes it good or bad". Miles Davis

This is an odd problem. On the reference image prior to it being sysprep'd and captured, going to certain sites (e.g. lifehacker.com) the menus, all pictures and advertisements display just fine. But once capture and deploy that image those sites stop working the way they should. I made sure the unattend file was making zero changes to IE and I even disabled the IE configuration app that I made with IEAK to ensure that IE was being setup as is out of the box, but something is changing the way it operates and it fails to work the way it did before it get deployed to a client. I don't have any extra add-ons and no tracking protection lists.

The big problem is it causes compatibility issues with lots of sites, such as menus not appearing when you hover like they should. I even tried building a clean machine from the Microsoft media directly and creating IEAK packages from that, a totally clean machine. That didn't work either.

Anyone else have weird problems like this before?

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Hi,

I'm trying to setup a few reference images of Windows 7 which will be deployed to our client computers. The baseline Group Policies are configured through Local Group Policies set in the image. I've setup a Master GPO machine on which to build the policies and test them.

The Local Group Policies have been set for Local Computer Configuration, Local User Configuration and for Local Non-Administrators Configuration. The thinking is that members of the local Administrators group on the computer are unrestricted and still have the ability to do most things. Users which log onto the computer abide by the more restrictive Non-Administrators Group Policy settings.

Using the "LocalGPO.wsf" script I'm able to backup and restore Computer and User Configuration which affects all users of the machine but it does not backup the Non-Administrators Policies. Is this possible?

After some digging around in the "GPOPack.wsf" files I've found that the Machine & All Users Policies are restored by the "LocalPol.exe" file. This utility has command line switches for '-m' machine and '-u' user. So I'm guessing that it's not possible to restore the Non-Administrators Policies?

For what it was worth I've tried copying the "Registry.pol" file from "%windir%\System32\GroupPolicyUsers\S-1-5-32-545\User" folder on the GPO Master machine and placed the file in the same location on target computer. A test which had one value set worked on the reference computer but when the policies were copied form the GPO Master machine, the target computer ignored all the settings.

Any ideas how to backup/restore Local Machine Non-Administrator Group Polices?

Thanks!

Hello,

I have read the other posts and have done google research but can't see why deployment stops in the middle with no error.

-This is using OSD to a VM using Workstation 10

-This seems to be happening right after image is applied the machine restarts and devices should be installed but it comes to a logon screen with local accounts(i created) other than "administrator" available to login with.

-This has been a hit and miss. I have built reference images using VM's. When deploying the BDD.log shows that the image is applied by LTIApply and then OS restarts and comes to a login screen and stops. At times the process does work though and goes to the next step.

-When it does process fine the next steps are for "Getting Devices Ready".

-I have had most success with building a reference image configuring it taking snapshot capturing and then deploying the image.

-At times when I have reverted back to a certain snapshot, made changes and did another capture the deployment process fails as mentioned. I don't think it is the capture though as capture completes with no errors.

If anyone has pointers, please advise. I can attach the logs if need be. Thanks.

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.

We're trying to get our Windows 8.1 MDT 2013 image to work on Surface 3 Pro, but encountering this error in the process:

FAILURE ( 5456 ):  Unable to determine Destination Disk, Partition, and /or Drive 

This is our first Native UEFI device where we're forced to use UEFI and GPT disk format, and like anything new, it's not working.
I'm currently booting it to a USB drive (formatted correctly with two partitions, a FAT32 boot partition, and the rest of the drive for the Deploy folder).

It runs through the "Format and Partition Disk" task, sits there for a few seconds, looks like it's processing everything up until right before the Install phase, then errors out.

With MDT 2013, my Format and Partition Disk task is set to use MBR 100% of the drive. ZTIDiskpark knows and is correctly detecting the IsUEFI = True and creating the 4 partitions.

  Console > DISKPART> 
  Console >   Partition ###  Type              Size     Offset
  Console >   -------------  ----------------  -------  -------
  Console >   Partition 1    Recovery           300 MB  1024 KB
  Console >   Partition 2    System             499 MB   301 MB
  Console >   Partition 3    Reserved           128 MB   800 MB
  Console > * Partition 4    Primary            118 GB   928 MB

However, for some reason, in ZTIDiskPart.log, it indicates that "DestinationDisk and Partition did not yield a target Partition". After reviewing the ZTIDiskPart.log, it looks like it's only checking the first two partitions then giving up.

Log Files here on OneDrive: 
http://1drv.ms/1s5qvmp
1. BDD.log
2. LiteTough.log
3. ZTIDiskpart.log
If any other log files are needed, let me know!

Again, this is only happening on our first UEFI device (Surface 3 Pro), New computer scenario with Windows 8.1 in MDT 2013. The task sequence works great on all our BIOS/MBR devices. Any idea on why we're getting this error and how we can go about diagnosing it would be incredibly helpful! Thanks!

I am currently creating images for a deployment server at work and have come across a problem. A few of the drivers I need to add, including the chipset driver, have no .inf files that I can see, I have extracted the .exe file using 7zip but this just produces a number of random files. Can anyone help please??? I am using MDT 2013 and server 2012 essentials R2

Thanks

I have a custom application that I want to have running during WinPE for my Litetouch deployments. I had this working in SCCM and now I want to get it working in MDT.

I have the Netcheck.exe application in my Extras folder, it ends up on the root of my X: drive.

Here is my unattend.xml file.

By default, the Litetouch.wsf file is launched synchronously, and so my Netcheck app won't run until the Litetouch wizard closes (this won't work for my needs). Also, synchronous commands are run before Asynchronous commands.  Therefore, I need to run both my custom Netcheck app and the Litetouch wizard Asynchronously.

However, every time I use the unattend file that I pasted above, WinPE boots and then immediately reboots. If I am quick and hit F8 I get a command prompt, and then my Netcheck app and the Litetouch wizard both run (sweet!), but then when I close that cmd prompt, WinPE shuts down (lame).

The wpeinit.log is shown below. Everything seems to look good, so what is wrong? How can I accomplish this?

Currently I'm using MDT to deploy Windows 7 /Office 2013 in 5 different languages using a single task sequence. Its currently used for both new builds and rebuilds.

However, we're now talking to an OEM about having an Image baked for new machines in that will finalise the task sequence from the factory. 

My TS connects to the MDT database, gathers up the machine details, and sets the Language Locale variable and from that, injects the correct language pack. Post Image, we install Office, which installs in the correct OS language.

The OEM says I should do a single image, with office baked in, and change the OS as a final step. 

Before losing a day or two to testing, does anyone know if that's feasible?

Hi all,

I'm very close to the config I want, and while I can accomplish it with app dependencies, I'd prefer to understand why what I've got isn't working.

We have a fairly simple deployment environment, one SOE that is deployed to everything. Laptops (all Toshis) and desktops (all lenovo) are in different OUs, and laptops have bitlocker an extra application package. I've recently updated it to deploy 64-bit OS and apps if the WinPE image that is booted is 64-bit - which works, but I'm finding the extra apps package for laptops never deploys even though the BDD.log indicates the subsections are parsed

I don't think we're doing anything complex enough to warrant using a DB or SCCM - any thoughts would be much appreciated

This is my CustomSettings.ini:

[Settings]
Priority=ByLaptop,ByDesktop,ByVM,ByMake,Default

; Set Type  -------------------------------------------------------------------
[ByLaptop]
Subsection=Laptop-%IsLaptop%

[ByDesktop]
Subsection=Desktop-%IsDesktop%

[ByVM]
Subsection=VM-%IsVM%

[Laptop-True]
MachineObjectOU=OU=Roaming,OU=Workstations,DC=COMPANY,DC=COM,DC=AU
BDEInstall=TPM
BdeInstallSuppress=NO
BDeWaitForEncryption=False
BDEDriveSize=2000
BDEDriveLetter=S:
BDEKeyLocation=C:
;SkipBitLocker=NO
BDEInstall=TPM
BDERecoveryKey=AD

[Desktop-True]
MachineObjectOU=OU=location,OU=Workstations,DC=COMPANY,DC=COM,DC=AU

; Make Specific ---------------------------------------------------------------
[ByMake]
Subsection=%Make%

[VMware, Inc.]
OSDComputerName=corp-locXXXX
DoNotCreateExtraPartition=YES
SkipTaskSequence=NO

[IBM]
OSDComputerName=corp-locXXXX
SkipTaskSequence=NO

[LENOVO]
Subsection=SOE

[TOSHIBA]
Subsection=SOE

; SOE -------------------------------------------------------------------------
[SOE]
Subsection=SOE-%Architecture%

SkipApplications=YES

SkipComputerName=YES
OSDComputerName=loc-%SerialNumber%

[SOE-X86]
TaskSequenceID=W7ENTSP1+
SkipTaskSequence=YES
Applications001={8350502f-6773-41de-b47a-d0302ac7637b}
Subsection=SOE-%Make%-%Architecture%

[SOE-X64]
TaskSequenceID=W7ENTX64
SkipTaskSequence=YES
Applications001={df7c68c5-1ff4-4b44-a9e5-29da10e43760}
Subsection=SOE-%Make%-%Architecture%

[SOE-TOSHIBA-X86]
Applications002={ef09b00b-1cdb-442d-a196-4166afa87f23}
Subsection=SOE-%Make%-%Model%-%Architecture%

[SOE-TOSHIBA-X64]
Applications002={ef09b00b-1cdb-442d-a196-4166afa87f23}
Subsection=SOE-%Make%-%Model%-%Architecture%

[SOE-TOSHIBA-TECRA R10-X86]
Applications003={8c1db9f2-0223-464a-91e3-2e9bb000aeda}

[SOE-TOSHIBA-TECRA R10-X64]
Applications003={8c1db9f2-0223-464a-91e3-2e9bb000aeda}

; Defaults --------------------------------------------------------------------
[Default]

WSUSServer=http://wsus.COMPANY.com.au

OSInstall=Y
SkipAppsOnUpgrade=YES
SkipCapture=YES
SkipAdminPassword=YES
SkipProductKey=YES
LanguageGroup=1
InputLocale= en-AU
KeyboardLocale= en-AU
SkipBitLocker=YES
SkipBitLockerDetails=YES
SkipComputerBackup=YES
SKipDeploymentType=YES

SkipDomainMemberShip=YES
JoinDomain=COMPANY.com.au
DomainAdmin=domainadmin
DomainAdminDomain=COMPANY
DomainAdminPassword=password

SkipLocaleSelection=YES
SkipTimeZone=YES
TimeZoneName=AUS Eastern Standard Time
SkipUserData=YES

SkipSummary=YES
SkipFinalSummary=YES

Desktops all behave as expected, both x86 and x64.

Laptops however never install the Toshiba apps package {ef09b00b-1cdb-442d-a196-4166afa87f23} (nor {8c1db9f2-0223-464a-91e3-2e9bb000aeda} in the case of the R10's), yet the BDD.log indicates the subsections are parsed

I'm trying to build an automated Windows 7 x64 reference image with MDT 2012. My task sequence runs fully automatic and installs all Windows updates from local WSUS during reference image creation task sequence. Problem is that this WSUS update process will hang and I see a low memory error coming from windows during MDT is installing those updates. My Windows 7 media that I use is original SP1 Windows 7 Enterprise media that is imported to MDT.

Reference machine is a virtual machine running in hyper-v 2012 and it has 2GB ram and two cpu cores.

Atm I added a suspend step to task sequence and I'm running manually those updates to reference machine directly from Microsoft Update. No problems so far. 

Hi there,

i try to configure a MDT Deployment without a DHCP Server. So my idea was to set one ip for the boot process for all servers (Bootstrap.ini) and change this ip with the customsettings.ini by MAC address. So i have not to update the ISO file every time i have to deploy a new server.

everything works fine, only the Task Sequence is running constant with the ip 192.168.2.252 and not with 192.168.2.1.

Could someone explain me why the ip will not applied from customsettings.

bootstrap.ini

[Settings]
Priority=Default
Properties=MyCustomProperty

[Default]
DeployRoot=\\192.168.2.21\DS$
UserID=Administrator
UserPassword=xxxxxxxx
UserDomain=.
KeyboardLocale=0407:00000407
InputLocale=0407:00000407
SkipBDDWelcome=YES
;--------------------------------------------------------
;Boot IP
;--------------------------------------------------------
OSDAdapterCount=1
OSDAdapter0EnableDHCP=False
OSDAdapter0IPAddressList=192.168.2.252
OSDAdapter0SubnetMask=255.255.255.0
OSDAdapter0Gateways=192.168.2.254
OSDAdapter0DNSServerList=192.168.2.1
OSDAdapter0Name=intern
OSDAdapter0DNSSuffix=netzwerk.local
OSDAdapter0TCPIPNetBiosOptions=1

Customsettings.ini

;--------------------------------------------------------
;SETTINGS
;--------------------------------------------------------
[Settings]
Priority=MACAddress, Default
Properties=MyCustomProperty
;--------------------------------------------------------
;DC01
;--------------------------------------------------------
[00:0C:29:7D:19:DD]
SkipCapture=YES
SkipComputerName=YES
OSDComputername=DC01
SkipDomainMembership=YES
OverrideProductKey=D2N9P-3P6X9-2R39C-7RTCD-MDVJX
SkipTaskSequence=YES
TaskSequenceID=OS-2012-DC1
OSDAdapterCount=1
OSDAdapter0EnableDHCP=False
OSDAdapter0IPAddressList=192.168.2.1
OSDAdapter0SubnetMask=255.255.255.0
OSDAdapter0Gateways=192.168.2.254
OSDAdapter0DNSServerList=192.168.2.1
OSDAdapter0Name=intern
OSDAdapter0DNSSuffix=netzwerk.local
OSDAdapter0TCPIPNetBiosOptions=1

Is it possible to use MDT 2013 to deploy an Windows 8.1 image and also a an image to the recovery partition to be able to use the built in recovery feature in Windows 8.1 ?

How would you go about doing it?