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MDT 2013 Update 2 - USMT5 - Replace TS - Auto Restore

September 2, 2016, 8:14 am
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Hi Everyone, 

We're most of the way through a nice simple deployment build for our company with everything working quite well. I'm missing one final part and that's automating a restore of the Userstate.mig.

A bit of background; I run the replace task sequence from a logged in user on the device we're replacing the HDD in, I run the litetouch.vbs from cmd and select the replace TS I've setup. I've set USMT to backup the user state to a network share with DDIR=%serialnumber% defined in my customsettings.ini to set as a unique identifier for a machine.

Now what I'd like to do is then run my deployment task sequence and skip the user data (restore) wizard step but set the values so it performs the restore from the correct %serialnumber% folder. Can this be done in MDT 2013 U2?

Thanks

Mike

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MDT 2013 Capture Errors

August 12, 2016, 11:47 am
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Domain Admin credentials provided to all tasks in task sequence and Domain Admin group has Full Control on Images volume where DeploymentShare$ is located.

The above log is the LiteTouch.log
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Windows 10 upgrade skipping the Post-Processing group

January 14, 2016, 10:40 am
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Upgrading Windows 7 Enterprise x64 to Windows 10 Enterprise x64. The upgrade task sequence appears to work fine with no errors, but the Post-Processing group does not run. Looking at the smsts.log file, it is because "Registry value HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows\Win10UpgradeStatusCode does not exist".

What puts that registry value there, and why would it NOT put it there? The upgrade itself seemed to go well.

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Disable Devices during MDT Deployment

September 2, 2016, 10:15 am
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In my quest to find a way to remove the SmartCard Prompts on the Logon screen, I have found the simplest way is to disable the device or devices in Device Manager.

This is easily done manually after the deployment is finished, but I would like to have MDT do it during the Deployment.  I went searching for a Powershell command that could do it and I found a few that said they could.  I am not able to get either to load on my Windows 10 Desktop to test and I am unsure if the module will go into WinPE if I load it onto the MDT Server and then rebuild the Deployment share.

Anyone with any ideas or assistance on how I can accomplish turning off devices during Deployment?  Also how do I load PS modules into the WinPE Powershell, do I have to make that part of the PS Script that I run?

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Office Click-to-Run in MDT Image

August 23, 2016, 11:26 am
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I am looking to create a customized Windows 10 image. I have installed an MDT 2013 Update 2 server to do the install. Within my image I would like to install Office Click-to-Run 2016. I am using the following article for guidance:

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn314789.aspx

I am using MDT to both deploy and capture the image. When the image finishes capturing I am getting the following warning:

"Unexpected return code while re-arming Office 2016, RC = -1073425660"

Image

Any help in determining if this is an issue and fixing it would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Mike

Solutions Architect

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Deploying an image to a drive to install in another PC

September 2, 2016, 8:11 am
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Is it possible to deploy an image to a drive then take that drive to another location, install it, change the PC name and so on?

I know I can deploy offline but was trying to eliminate the time the client computer is down.

I was hoping I could pull down an image at our shop with the drivers for the client PC then take that drive to the client, install it and run a few small scripts to activate windows, rename the PC, assign it's SID and so on.

I am not sure this is possible with the way the image is deployed but figured  I would ask.

This would be similar to a Ghost approach of just copying drives.

Thanks,

Scott

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MDT Deploy Wizard problems with auto DPI Scaling in WinPE 10.0.10586

March 16, 2016, 10:28 am
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Since upgrading our MDT environment to the most current release for Windows 10, Windows PE now automatically sets the DPI based on the native resolution of the screen that it is running.  Our current model laptops run with a 1920x1080 resolution, Windows PE sees this and sets the DPI to 144 (150%).

All the fonts are now HUGE but the windows and other elements of the MDT Wizards are tiny.  This makes it near impossible for our deployment technicians to navigate through the deployment wizards.

I started looking at the .hta, .css, and .xml files and I notice that the fonts are sized in points, but all the other elements are sized by pixels. This seems to be where the display problems are being caused (other than the fact that the DPI is being dynamically set by Windows PE 10)

Is there a fix for this???  We need one.  Soon.

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remove metro apps permanently from Windows 10

September 4, 2016, 9:13 am
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We are deploying Windows 10 through ConfgMgr integrated MDT task sequence.We want to remote windows default metro applications like one drive , 3D builder, Skype,Xbox,etc from the image.

We wanted to remove these apps along with task sequence .I referred some blogs and tried some powershell commands but after restart i noticed these metro apps appear again ?

 

verification

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MDT Sysprep/Capture reboots the machine at 10%

July 19, 2016, 12:21 pm
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Working on a Windows 7 capture right now and the system exhibits this strange behavior of rebooting when it reaches 10% captured.  Even stranger - if I delete the wim in \captures\ and allow the TS to continue on reboot, it captures the wim completely. The logs unfortunately don't seem to give me any sort of error, just a cutoff at the % it was capturing at and continuation again as if nothing went wrong when it reboots. This is on a gen1 hyper-v and I'm capturing from a checkpoint if that helps, using MDT 2013 U2. Thanks guys.

Ryan


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Change the default unattend.xml in MDT

September 6, 2016, 7:31 am
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Hey guys,

I noticed that windows update is hit or miss killing Office 2016 ProPlus as I try to install it using MDT.  Windows Update runs in the background on first boot and causes a conflict when Office tries to install.  Figure my answer is to disable windows update during OS deployment and just have our GPO's turn it back on when added to the domain.

My plan is to use MS Image Manager to change the ProtectYourPC attribute in the unattend.xml.

Unfortunately every task sequence has its own unattend.xml   I don't want to manually modify it every time I create a new task sequence.  Is there a base unattend.xml that MDT uses as a template to spawn the others that I can mod so that all new task sequences will automatically have the setting?

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rename admin in task sequence

September 6, 2016, 7:56 am
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is there a point in the task sequence that I can safely rename the admin account and have the actual folder in the Users directory match the new admin account?

The most common methods I'm finding do the rename very late in the task sequence at which point the admin account is named newadmin (for example) but the folder in C:\Users\ is still named administrator

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MSI experts

September 6, 2016, 6:54 am
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Hi,

I'm looking for experts in msi technology ...
I don't find any forum just about this product and I have to deploy an application sold with a msi which installs fine when using an interactive session and hangs using an schedule task without interactive session.

Do you know where I can ask my question ?

Are you interested ?

Thank you for your help.

Ludovic.

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TPM Base Services in Reference Image

September 6, 2016, 8:11 am
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Please help. I am a little unsure about the TPM Base Services. Bitlocker is our encryption method, but we use Dell Data Protection Encryption, (DDPE) to manage the keys.  From my understanding, and please correct me if I'm wrong, DDPE requires the Windows service: TPM Base Services, to interact with the TPM chip.  My predecessor always used physical machines to build our reference image.  On a physical machine, the TPM Base Services was available and visible in services.msc.  I want to build our reference image in an virtual environment.  It seems that the TPM Base Services in NOT available or visible in Hyper-V or VMware.  I DO NOT want to use BitLocker in my reference image, I just want to ensure that the TPM Base Services are installed during deployment.  Will this service be available to PCs after deployment,,, or am I totally off base here.  Still building the image, will test on my own, would just like some background from people more versed in MDT and Bitlocker than I.  Thanks,,, Steve
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Imaging

September 6, 2016, 2:01 pm
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I have created a win 2012 R2 Server with only deployment services and file server roles.

It is currently not on our domain.

First off, I setup the server 2012 just to be able to create the image, does that mean the image and files etc are going to be tied to this specific server or can I move everthing to another server once testing is completed?

Currently I have several images that I use for imaging in our corporate environment and all works as it should (Through powershell scripting).

However, now I want to be able to deploy images with specific software on them (although I'm having a hard time figuring out the silent install script for ArcGIS).

Right now, when deploying windows images to machines, I can choose the OS and weather to inject drivers or not (we have nearly 40GB of drivers on one of our servers).

The image I'm trying to create could go on any machine in our organization, but I cannot figure out, in the deployment toolkit, how to allow drivers for "any" system to be installed.  I do not want to take an image of an existing computer because I wont necessarily want the same machine for deployment.

I have already imported the windows 7 .wim file and put ms office in the applications.  I still need to be able to get ArcGis and all possible drivers into the image.

Any suggestions?

Thank You

Terry

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Windows Update Step hanging - Windows 10 1607

August 2, 2016, 2:24 pm
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I have encountered an issue with the version of Windows and MDT. 

Caputured a custom WIM and during deployment the Windows Update step finds a couple of updates and attempts to download and install them from WSUS server.  It just hangs when at installing update.

I have also installed the latest WADK and created updated boot images etc.

It looks like the updates are installing but are not moving onto the next one, as the update is showing in WU e.g. KB3176929 gets stuck at installing but seems to install.

Any ideas?

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Upgraded to MDT 2013 U2 now USB boot is very slow.

September 7, 2016, 7:09 am
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I updated my Deployment Share (Deploy) and copied everything to my USB as I normally do, but now booting to the Deploy Menu takes a very long time. It starts the process but then I get the gray background for a long while before it goes on to the Customsettings step and then to the image menu. I thought maybe I had too many drivers on the USB. In my DS properties, under Windows PE x64/Drivers and Patches,  I have All Drivers and Packages and 'Include all Network' and 'Include all mass storage' drivers in the selection profile.

I'm just not sure what is slowing down the process to get to the image menu. Once there, it flies right through. Any thoughts would be helpful.


I should add that prior to the MDT upgrade, the whole boot process to the image menu was very quick. I believe that even after the upgrade it was going fast. Something else is making it slow for everyone. We all use a USB. I know the LiteTouch wim file is much larger than previously... our original one way back was 284k KB and now its 637k KB. Not sure if that's normal.
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Microsoft automatic Intel driver updates messing up our Windows 10 HP systems during and post deployment

September 7, 2016, 3:11 pm
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We have HP desktops and laptops we deploy via MDT using the out of box drivers from the HP website and/or via SSM Softpaqs.

However, somewhere during the deployment, even though our Windows updates are configured to be pulled from  our internal  WSUS, these Windows 10 systems keep updating drivers with ones from Microsoft.

The HP laptops update the 18.32.12 wireless drivers from HP that work for the Intel 8260 AC NIC to later versions like 18.40.0.9 that are very buggy to the point of being unusable.  User's cannot even log into their laptops on wifi until we manually roll back the driver.

The HP desktops update the Intel AMT drivers/firmware from our OOB drivers with a later version from Microsoft that is missing the Intel Management and Security Status tool that is mandatory for our systems to automatically get AMT configured.


Why are HP and Microsoft not coordinated in which drivers should or should not get updated automatically?  Aren't the OEMs supposed to post their drivers to Windows Updates so only the correct drivers per model get updated?

How can we stop these systems from using unwanted drivers during deployment or silently updating later?






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appx remnents stopping SysPrep on MDT Capture

August 30, 2016, 2:05 pm
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I removed packages and provisioned packages for all windows store apps in a new base image for 1511 Pro but Sysprep keeps hanging on "package installed for a user but not provisioned for all users" The package is WindowsAlarms. Getappxpackage, and get-appxprovisioned packages doesnt show it at all, its not in the list in the settings dialouge for removing apps and it isnt in the start menu, but it does show up when i search for alarm - but it doesnt launch. I assume this is just junk somewhere in the registry that needs to be blown out but I dont really know enough about the UWA model to deep dive. Any ideas?

 
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Surface Pro 3 Problems Partitioning

August 11, 2016, 8:43 am
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I have this issue that i've seen others experience where MDT fails to partition the Surface correctly. I have other Surface Pro 3 devices and they work fine. I've read that some say its a faulty SSD. Is there anyway to confirm the SSD is faulty? I really don't think its my MDT setup since the other surface devices partition and image fine. I have tried to delete the secure keys hoping that would help but I still get the error when partitioning. 

Any other ideas? 

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Rebooting Issues with Deploying to a Optiplex 7040-Setup never completes.

January 25, 2016, 11:28 am
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We are trying to use both MDT and SCCM to reimage this unit (Optiplex 7040). The imaging process completes normally. When the unit restarts, it goes into a constant Repair boot loop. I have rebooted it in safemode and then notice that on AMDKMPFD.sys, the unit will restart. Both deployments have been configured to use ONLY drivers for the 7040. Anyone had this issue?

I have created a MDT task sequence isolating the drivers for the 7040 and it still has the issue.

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