Hi

I am installing a new T520 laptop. Now while doing this, I need the drivers.. obviously.

I downloaded a whole bunch of drivers from Lenovo's website, and happily imported them into MDT.

Unfortunately some of these drivers need to be installed as an application...

So I though...Hey.. why don't I just install W7 on the 520, and then send out drivers from MDT 1 or more at a time..?

But ... ack.. I cannot seem to find a way to do this properly..

I can create a post installation task sequence and modify it to fit my need...meaning I add an 'inject drivers' step.

But to avoid it running the standard cs.ini file and just processing the 520 section, the architecture section etc. I'd like to be able to set a variable that tells mdt NOT to process certain areas of the CS.

I already run my ztigather twice to take into account any TS specific settings, so I thought.. Hey can't I use this? Set something under the post TS to avoid MDT running other sections of my Cs?

Ooooor... is there another solution I'm just not thinking about?

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

Hi

With the WindowsADK, after deleting ofavolume image, how do Ioptimize itswimfile?

Thanks

Bye

Balubeto

I am new to administrating to MDT and have encountered a problem 3 times. I am curious if I am doing something wrong.

The problem is, is when I add drivers to the Out-of-Box Drivers folder, WinPE, I update the deployment share to generate new boot WIMS.

I then import then into WDS > Server>Boot folder by choosing the "replace" option for each x86 and x64 wim. I am not shutting the WDS service down … or anything else.

On 3 occasions, after importing the new Boot WIMs, we could no longer boot into MDT even though 5 mins earlier we could. I then get an error saying Windows Deployment Service is corrupt and I am not able to recover from it even after running the commands to uninitialized and initialize the server.

Is this just bad luck or am I not doing something correctly and breaking WDS? I am left having to remove WDS from the server, which requires a reboot, and reinstall WDS to get it to work. What am I doing wrong? Am I doing something wrong? Does anyone have any idea what is corrupting WDS and how to fix it without removing the role from the server?

Thanks in advance.

Hello,

I have a task sequence deploying Windows 7 and some applications. Everything has worked fine, but now, the deployment stops after the reboot after the os install. My applications don't get installed. I have already created a completely new image and task sequence but it still doesn't work.

Here is the end of the smsts.log file:

<![LOG[!--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------!]LOG]!><time="12:20:55.218+000" date="02-19-2015" component="TSManager" context="" type="1" thread="1532" file="instruction.cxx:2957">
<![LOG[Expand a string: WinPEandFullOS]LOG]!><time="12:20:55.218+000" date="02-19-2015" component="TSManager" context="" type="0" thread="1532" file="executionenv.cxx:782">
<![LOG[Executing command line: smsboot.exe /target:WinPE]LOG]!><time="12:20:55.234+000" date="02-19-2015" component="TSManager" context="" type="1" thread="1532" file="commandline.cpp:805">
<![LOG[========================= [ smsboot.exe ] =========================]LOG]!><time="12:20:55.249+000" date="02-19-2015" component="Reboot" context="" type="1" thread="1156" file="rebootcomputer.cpp:184">
<![LOG[Command line: '"smsboot.exe" /target:WinPE']LOG]!><time="12:20:55.249+000" date="02-19-2015" component="Reboot" context="" type="0" thread="1156" file="rebootcomputer.cpp:186">
<![LOG[SMSTSRebootDelay=30]LOG]!><time="12:20:55.249+000" date="02-19-2015" component="Reboot" context="" type="1" thread="1156" file="rebootcomputer.cpp:122">
<![LOG[SMSTSRebootMessage=Initiating system reboot]LOG]!><time="12:20:55.249+000" date="02-19-2015" component="Reboot" context="" type="1" thread="1156" file="rebootcomputer.cpp:122">
<![LOG[SMSTSRebootRequested=WinPE]LOG]!><time="12:20:55.249+000" date="02-19-2015" component="Reboot" context="" type="1" thread="1156" file="rebootcomputer.cpp:122">
<![LOG[Process completed with exit code 0]LOG]!><time="12:20:55.249+000" date="02-19-2015" component="TSManager" context="" type="1" thread="1532" file="commandline.cpp:1102">
<![LOG[!--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------!]LOG]!><time="12:20:55.249+000" date="02-19-2015" component="TSManager" context="" type="1" thread="1532" file="instruction.cxx:3010">
<![LOG[Successfully complete the action (Restart computer) with the exit win32 code 0]LOG]!><time="12:20:55.249+000" date="02-19-2015" component="TSManager" context="" type="1" thread="1532" file="instruction.cxx:3036">
<![LOG[Sending status message . . .]LOG]!><time="12:20:55.249+000" date="02-19-2015" component="TSManager" context="" type="1" thread="1532" file="utility.cxx:292">
<![LOG[Executing in non SMS standalone mode. Ignoring send a task execution status message request]LOG]!><time="12:20:55.249+000" date="02-19-2015" component="TSManager" context="" type="1" thread="1532" file="utility.cxx:302">
<![LOG[Set a global environment variable _SMSTSLastActionRetCode=0]LOG]!><time="12:20:55.249+000" date="02-19-2015" component="TSManager" context="" type="0" thread="1532" file="executionenv.cxx:668">
<![LOG[Set a global environment variable _SMSTSLastActionSucceeded=true]LOG]!><time="12:20:55.249+000" date="02-19-2015" component="TSManager" context="" type="0" thread="1532" file="executionenv.cxx:668">
<![LOG[Expand a string: %_SMSTSMDataPath%\Logs]LOG]!><time="12:20:55.249+000" date="02-19-2015" component="TSManager" context="" type="0" thread="1532" file="executionenv.cxx:782">
<![LOG[Deleting file without retry]LOG]!><time="12:20:55.249+000" date="02-19-2015" component="TSManager" context="" type="1" thread="1532" file="ccmfile.cpp:1015">

Thank you.

Hi,

I'm trying to create different settings for different TaskSequenceIDs. For one TS I wanted to join the pc to a workgroup and do SkipApplications=YES and for the other TS I wanted to join a domain and do SkipApplications=NO. But I can't get it to work for some strange reason.

I've tried and tested this solution https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/Different-settings-per-4faa55e9#content but it doesn't work.

I tried this too : http://www.the-d-spot.org/wordpress/2012/07/20/how-to-use-different-settings-per-task-sequence-with-mdt-2012/ but it doesn't work.

Perhaps MDT 2013 acts different then 2012 and 2010???? It would be nice if you could help me out on this one. :-)

Paul

Hello everyone,

I work for a small company roughly around 300 employees and I'm having a very hard time using sysprep/generalize to deploy machines. I have an unattend.xml file and when I use it in audit mode without generalize it boots up fine but then, when I try and use the oobe/generalize/shutdown and when I restart I get the "Windows can not complete the installation" error. Here is my unattend.xml file. Any help is appreciated. We do not use a PXE server as we're a small company and are trying to use sysprep to deploy basic images as needed on machines. All our machines are Windows 7 Professional X64 Bit.

Here is my unattend.xml file...

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<unattend xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:unattend">
    <settings pass="oobeSystem">
        <component name="Microsoft-Windows-International-Core" 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">
            <InputLocale>en-us</InputLocale>
            <SystemLocale>en-us</SystemLocale>
            <UILanguage>en-us</UILanguage>
            <UILanguageFallback>en-us</UILanguageFallback>
            <UserLocale>en-us</UserLocale>
        </component>
        <component name="Microsoft-Windows-Shell-Setup" 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">
            <OOBE>
                <HideEULAPage>true</HideEULAPage>
                <HideWirelessSetupInOOBE>true</HideWirelessSetupInOOBE>
                <NetworkLocation>Work</NetworkLocation>
                <ProtectYourPC>1</ProtectYourPC>
            </OOBE>
            <WindowsFeatures>
                <ShowMediaCenter>false</ShowMediaCenter>
            </WindowsFeatures>
            <TimeZone>Eastern Standard Time</TimeZone>
            <RegisteredOrganization>McBee Associates</RegisteredOrganization>
            <RegisteredOwner>McBee IT Department</RegisteredOwner>
        </component>
    </settings>
    <settings pass="specialize">
        <component name="Microsoft-Windows-Shell-Setup" 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">
            <RegisteredOrganization>McBee Associates</RegisteredOrganization>
            <RegisteredOwner>McBee IT Department</RegisteredOwner>
            <TimeZone>Eastern Standard Time</TimeZone>
            <ShowWindowsLive>false</ShowWindowsLive>
        </component>
    </settings>
    <cpi:offlineImage cpi:source="wim:e:/sources/install.wim#Windows 7 PROFESSIONAL" xmlns:cpi="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:cpi" />
</unattend>

Hello everyone,
I want to create a Windows 7 installation disc that will allow me to have, immediately after installation, a system updated with the latest hotfixes, installed programs and all the settings I want already selected in the system.
Now, I used MDT 2013 on x64 Windows 8.1 Pro to create a DeploymentShare Windows 7 Pro x86, including drivers, applications and various hotfixes, once I create the image of Windows PE, through which I install the above system from DeploymentShare, all row smoothly, but I have any dubious:

1) Once the system is installed, they log me in as Administrator, why?

2) If I log in as Administrator, then I have to run the sysprep.exe / generalize / oobe before delivering the computer to an imaginary customer?

3) If I want to make changes to the settings of the user (for example to make sure that hidden folders see by default after installation or arrange the icons on the desktop as I will ensure that the end user see it exactly so) I have to use the CopyProfile?

4) If yes, at what stage should I use the CopyProfile? Specifying an unattend.xml during sysprep.exe on point 2? Or maybe I recapture system image after install it and use the file *.wim with a different unattend.xml, that is, in practice doing two laps of installation?

I want to do this final procedure on the end user PC:
1) Put the DVD (or USB) of this modified Windows
2) Install Windows automatically with all applications, hotfixes and settings
3) Once Windows is installed, I install in audit mode all drivers for that PC and sysprep /oobe it
4) Give the PC to the client

Thank you in advance!

Hi,

I get the following error when deploying windows 7 image to HP z420 workstation:

Failure 5456: Unable to determine destination disk, partition, and/or drive. See BDD.LOG

LiteTouch deployment failed, return code = -2147467259 0x80004005

Failed to run the action: inject drivers

.......

When I deploy this same image with exact same settings to virtual machine or HP Elitebook laptop everything works fine. I have imported all z420 drivers to MDT too.

Any ideas?

Hello, dear colleagues.

I have a problem with configuring default user profile settings during OSD process with MDT 2012 Update 1 by adding registry keys in ntuser.dat.

I've read this article: Incorrect locale setting when you deploy a Windows 7 image by using SCCM 2007, MDT 2010, or MDT 2012

and add Run Powershell Script (also tried batch files and vbscript in Run Command Line) in appropriate Task Sequence:

# This settings applied successfully
Rename-Item C:\Windows\Media Media_OLD
reg add HKLM\software\TEST /v TEST /t REG_DWORD /d 1
reg add "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System" /v DisableStartupSound /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f

# This settings applied during OSD (State Restore), but restored after "Recover From Domain" and "Restart Computer" in previous state
reg delete "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon" /v AutoAdminLogon /f
reg delete "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon" /v DefaultDomainName /f
reg delete "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon" /v DefaultUserName /f

# This settings did not apply at all
REG LOAD HKU\NTUSER "C:\Users\Default\NTUSER.DAT"
REG IMPORT %DeployRoot%\Scripts\ntuser.reg
REG UNLOAD HKU\NTUSER

Here is ntuser.reg:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_USERS\ntuser\Software\Adobe\CommonFiles\Usage\Reader 11]
"OptIn"=dword:00000000

[HKEY_USERS\ntuser\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\MAO Settings]
"AddonLoadTimeThreshold"=dword:00002710

[HKEY_USERS\ntuser\Software\Adobe\Acrobat Reader\11.0\AdobeViewer]
"TrustedMode"=dword:00000000"EULA"=dword:00000001

[HKEY_USERS\ntuser\Software\Adobe\Acrobat Reader\11.0\Privileged]
"bProtectedMode"=dword:00000000

[HKEY_USERS\ntuser\Control Panel\Desktop]
"FontSmoothing"="2""FontSmoothingGamma"=dword:00000000"FontSmoothingOrientation"=dword:00000001"FontSmoothingType"=dword:00000002

[HKEY_USERS\ntuser\Control Panel\Accessibility\ToggleKeys]
"Flags"="34"

[HKEY_USERS\ntuser\Control Panel\Accessibility\StickyKeys]
"Flags"="2"

[HKEY_USERS\ntuser\Control Panel\Accessibility\Keyboard Response]
"Last Valid Wait"=dword:00004e20"Last Valid Delay"=dword:00000000"Last Valid Repeat"=dword:00000000"Last BounceKey Setting"=dword:00000000"Flags"="98""DelayBeforeAcceptance"="20000""AutoRepeatRate"="0""AutoRepeatDelay"="0""BounceTime"="0"

[HKEY_USERS\ntuser\Control Panel\Accessibility\MouseKeys]
"Flags"="34"

[HKEY_USERS\ntuser\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced]
"ListviewShadow"=dword:00000000

[HKEY_USERS\ntuser\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced]
"TaskbarGlomLevel"=dword:00000002

[HKEY_USERS\ntuser\Software\Microsoft\Office\14.0\Common\General]
"ShownFirstRunOptin"=dword:00000001

[HKEY_USERS\ntuser\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\VisualEffects]
"VisualFXSetting"=dword:00000002

Tried to apply setting to ntuser.dat after OSD with powershell, previously mapped deployment share as network drive - works fine.

Have someone met such a problem? 

Thanks.

Hi,

I am new to MDT in general and totally new to MDT2013 and need helps please.

Our existing MDT 2013 system is setup to build computer to main OU where all the rules has been relax. ie. almost free of restrictions. it is done form the rules of the deployment share

there are different type of servers hence changing the master OU where MDT join and place the computer will affect all the build. My server build is specific to an application hence I want to move the server to its OU where I got customised GPO setup for it and I want to do it as a task sequence specifically setup for it

I setup a task sequence running as a command line to execute a powershell script and run as an admin account that has the privilege to this moving computer to another OU. (I proved that the script is working by logging on to the server locally with the same admin account and run the script and it worked fine)

however, when run it with MDT, the task failed with this error:  Incorrect function. (Error:00000001;source:Windows). The execution of the group (groupname) has failed and the execution has been aborted. An action failed. Operation aborted (Error:8004004;Source:Windows). Task Sequence Engine failed! code:enExecutionFail. Task sequence execution failed with error code 8004005...

May I have some helps with this please?

Thanks

BeTrai

here is my script to move the OU: ( I ran it with Set-ExecutionPolicy Bypass)

$servername="$env:COMPUTERNAME"

$targetOU="OU=APPName, OU=Application,OU=Servers, DC=XYX,DC=ABC,DC=DEF"

$serverDistinguishedName= (Get-ADComputer$servername).DistinguishedName

Move-ADObject$serverDistinguishedName -TargetPath$targetOU 

On occasion we have a troublesome application that hangs during installation forcing us to manually reboot or an application that automatically reboots the machine during deployment. After this reboot, it goes directly to the desktop and does not resume. MDT monitoring also shows its still in the "Application Installation" phase. Is it possible to "resume" the MDT deployment where it left off?

Thanks!

Hi,

I have MDT 2012 Update 1 running on Windows Server 2008 R2. I can successfully capture and deploy images, but none of my customizations seem to be applied. I want to do things like select the right drivers for the right hardware, set the post-install resolution (from 1024x768), and do some branding. I am not really sure how to verify the correct driver are being detected and installed, but the resolution and the branding certainly aren't working. Here's the CustomSettings.ini file:

[Settings]
Priority=Model,Default
Properties=MyCustomProperty

[Default]
OSInstall=Y
SkipCapture=NO
SkipAdminPassword=YES
SkipProductKey=YES
SkipComputerBackup=NO
SkipBitLocker=NO
BitsPerPel=32
VRefresh=60
XResolution=1
YResolution=1

[Optiplex 990]
DriverGroup002=Windows 7\x64\%model%
DriverSelectionProfile=nothing

[Optiplex 9010]
DriverGroup003=Windows 7\x64\%model%
DriverSelectionProfile=nothing

[Optiplex 9020]
DriverGroup004=Windows 7\x64\%model%
DriverSelectionProfile=nothing

[10AAA0MRUS]
DriverGroup001=Windows 7\x64\%model%
DriverSelectionProfile=nothing

_SMSTSORGNAME="Computing"
_SMSTSpackageName="Custom Microsoft Windows Deployment Solution"

I have completely rebuilt and regenerated the boot images each time I have made a change to the file. Where am  Igoing wrong?

Thanks

Jason Watkins MCSE, MCSA, MCDBA, CCNA

Hello everyone,
I want to create a Windows 7 installation disc that will allow me to have, immediately after installation, a system updated with the latest hotfixes, installed programs and all the settings I want already selected in the system.
Now, I used MDT 2013 on x64 Windows 8.1 Pro to create a DeploymentShare Windows 7 Pro x86, including drivers, applications and various hotfixes, once I create the image of Windows PE, through which I install the above system from DeploymentShare, all row smoothly, but I have any dubious:

1) Once the system is installed, they log me in as Administrator, why?

2) If I log in as Administrator, then I have to run the sysprep.exe / generalize / oobe before delivering the computer to an imaginary customer?

3) If I want to make changes to the settings of the user (for example to make sure that hidden folders see by default after installation or arrange the icons on the desktop as I will ensure that the end user see it exactly so) I have to use the CopyProfile?

4) If yes, at what stage should I use the CopyProfile? Specifying an unattend.xml during sysprep.exe on point 2? Or maybe I recapture system image after install it and use the file *.wim with a different unattend.xml, that is, in practice doing two laps of installation?

5) Once I captured the system image, when I try to install it, the system logs me in again with Administrator account instead of OOBE, why?

I want to do this final procedure on the end user PC:
1) Put the DVD (or USB) of this modified Windows
2) Install Windows automatically with all applications, hotfixes and settings
3) Once Windows is installed, I install in audit mode all drivers for that PC and sysprep /oobe it
4) Give the PC to the client

Thank you in advance!

P.S: sorry for my bad english

To make a long story short:

Image procedure is: capture image from a Vmware client Windows 7 SP1 installation. Import into MDT2013, make a new Task Sequence for deploying that Image. Edit unattend xml in that TS to copyprofile.
Update Deployment Share and import the wim into WDS. Booting client with network boot and choose the image to deploy.

After making a new capture from a client and import into MDT. I thought this time i do not edit the TS because the name of the imported image is the same. Then updated the deployment share.

When i tried to deploy this image a error on the client appears. First i get the menu which is in WDS on the client and choose deploy W7. The client is loading LiteTouchPE_x86.wim but when he is finished loading a Windows error problem occurs: 

Windows failed to start. Recent hardware change might be the cause. This message appears also when somthing is wrong with Windows when he is not starting. But  is this due to the new image i captured into MDT? because i haven't chosen that image yet on the client so far is he not coming.

So i think maybe this is due that i did not make a TS change. So i deleted the TS and meade a new one then do a edit unattend.xml. When i choose edit unattend xml a second problem arised: he tries to open the unattend but gives a error. So i start system image manually and want to open the unattend.xml which is in the control\imagename folder. Then he says that the unattend is not attached to an image?

It looks like something is wrong with the LiteTouchPE_x86.wim but how can i see what it is?

freddie

Dear all 

I am deploying Windows 8.1 using MDT 2013. I have build a custom wim which i captured. While capturing i used built in administrator account, added some business applications ,  removed the modern apps which were not needed and then customized the Windows 8.1 start screen. 

Now when i deploy the WIM on a computer , after applying wim the deployment goes to setting up windows where i get messaged like getting things ready and we are almost done etc...  this takes quite a bit of time and installed  the metro applications which I  removed before capture.

How do i disable the "getting things done " etc.. screens? and how to i make sure that the modern applications are not installed for all new users?  I uninstalled all the metro apps before capture. 

Thank you

Anurag

We set up an MDT Sever in our Middle School. In attempting to capture an image we connect to the scripts folder and it begins to run the windows script. At "processing rules" it stalls. I opened the BDD.log file with cmtrace and found the above error. Customsettings.ini can not be found in any standard locations. Unable to find rules INI file, rc = 1ZTIGather2/23/2015 8:42:59 AM0 (0x0000)

ZTI ERROR - Non-zero return code by ZTIGather, rc = 8000ZTIGather2/23/2015 8:42:59 AM0 (0x0000)

The customsettings.ini does exist on the share.

I have another odd thing happening here. I found another deployment share on the server when we only created one. I have no idea how this happened or if someone else created the share. They are identical. Is there a way to delete this share? Could this cause a conflict in successful operation of the task sequence? Any help would be greatly appreciated.