I made a few errors so I needed to re-post this:
I apologize if this question is repetitive but I couldn't find a solution that was very helpful (in documentation or the web) and since this is our first attempt at using MDT I decided that I would ask the community:Before MDT our company would manually install or image each machine and manually add them to the domain. The important piece is that our company has multiple departments and each department uses their own DNS suffix (example we have one group that is mkt.company.com and another is dev.company.com). It is very important that this value is set before and does NOT change when adding it to the domain. Basically the following registry key would have these specific values set:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\Tcpip\Parameters]
"SyncDomainWithMembership"=dword:00000000
(to prevent the system from changing the DNS suffix when the domain membership changes)
"Domain"="dept.company.com" (to set the DNS suffix properly)
"NV Domain"="dept.company.com" (to set the DNS suffix properly)
Basically my questions boil down to the following at the moment:
Where in deployment task list would I place a script that would set this value before the machine tries to add itself to the domain (I want to avoid hard coding the DNS suffix into the PE)?
What type of scripting option should I be using to make these registry changes (powershell, vbs, etc...)?
The script will have logic so the person running the install can select the department and that would modify the script. Is there anything special I need to know about the script or settings that could affect the behavior I wish to configure?
Again I do apologize if this question has been answered before or is listed in any documentation but I have done quite a bit of searching and haven't found anything that would help with this configuration.