Tag Archives: Lite Touch

MDT: Refreshing computers with Static IP Addresses

Posted on March 6, 2013 by Andrew Barnes

No DHCP? No Problem In this scenario, you have a computer with static IP Address assignments that you wish to maintain during a REFRESH. There’s a Task Sequence step called Capture Network Settings. This runs the script ZTINICConfig.wsf that can … Continue reading →

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MDT: Automating Static IP during Bare metal boot

Posted on March 5, 2013 by Andrew Barnes

No DHCP? No Problem In this scenario, the requirement is to boot a lite touch boot image with a static IP address, where is no DHCP available. You can use a custom answer file (unattend.xml) to configure your static IP settings … Continue reading →

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MDT: Manually configure a Static IP Address during LTI Deployments

Posted on March 4, 2013 by Andrew Barnes

No DHCP? No Problem. Part 1. I’ve been working on the various methods of setting Static IP addresses during Lite Touch deployments and decided to space the articles out over the week. Today we’ll cover the easy ones. If you … Continue reading →

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LTI/ZTI Deployments: Injecting drivers during deployment

Posted on February 25, 2013 by Andrew Barnes

One of the best reasons implementing MDT 2012 is the way it manages your drivers. I had a customer who was using WDS only for deploying their Windows 7 images. They told me that the deployment would halt for around … Continue reading →

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MDT 2012: Skipping Deployment Wizard Panes

Posted on February 18, 2013 by Andrew Barnes

This is an updated version of the skipping deployment wizard pages table. This is one of the most popular articles on Scriptimus Ex Machina as it covers most of what is required to automate Lite Touch deployments. Readers use it as a … Continue reading →

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MDT 2012: DomainOUs List

Posted on February 11, 2013 by Andrew Barnes

There’s a feature in MDT that displays a dropdown list of Domain OU’s in the Lite Touch deployment wizard. There are 2 ways to set it up. First, you can create a list of OU’s in the customsettings.ini by using … Continue reading →

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MDT 2012: Missing network drivers during LTI boot

Posted on February 4, 2013 by Andrew Barnes

I was contacted last week by a former colleague who is just getting into MDT. He was missing drivers on one model and received this common error page during his boot sequence. Naturally, I had loads of resources to share but … Continue reading →

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LTI/ZTI PowerShell: Using parameterised scripts in Task Sequences

Posted on September 18, 2012 by Andrew Barnes

There are methods in creating PowerShell scripts suitable for task sequence deployment. A good starting point is the Technet article about_Scripts. One of the most useful features of MDT/SCCM are the deployment properties. Today, I’m going to talk about using … Continue reading →

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LTI/ZTI PowerShell: Accessing Task Sequence Variables

Posted on September 17, 2012 by Andrew Barnes

In order to create more useful scripts in your Lite/Zero-Touch deployments, you will need access to the deployment variables. In MDT 2012 you can now access these Task Sequence variables from 2 new PSDrives called TSEnv: and TSEnvList:. Now these drives … Continue reading →

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LTI/ZTI PowerShell: Using PowerShell in Task Sequences

Posted on September 14, 2012 by Andrew Barnes

Now that we’re in the golden age of PowerShell many administrators will want to take advantage of its features in their deployments. With Lite/Zero-Touch you can do this by using the Run PowerShell Script task sequence step. The great thing … Continue reading →

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