Tag Archives: Zero Touch

MDT 2010: Finish action

Posted on May 18, 2011 by Andrew Barnes

One importing thing when deploying images is ensuring there is some sort of indication that Lite-Touch has ended and the machine is ready for use. For security, you may wish to shut the machine down at the end or log … Continue reading →

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MDT 2010: Network Share Credentials

Posted on May 17, 2011 by Andrew Barnes

When performing Lite-Touch Deployments MDT will need to connect to shares for various purposes. For example, to access a deployment share, backup share or a user state migration share. Naturally, this process will require credentials. The account can be either a … Continue reading →

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MDT 2010: Targeting Image Destinations

Posted on May 16, 2011 by Andrew Barnes

Many people encounter an issue applying their WIM images to the correct partition. I’ve seen this many times in the forums when people say that their images are not deploying to various disks or partitions etc as they want/expect. Although … Continue reading →

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MDT 2010: Skipping Summary Pages

Posted on May 13, 2011 by Andrew Barnes

When performing your deployments the summary pages will cost you an extra click each. This is somthing you can’t afford in a fully automated deployment. To hide the summary panes during the Lite-Touch Deployment wizard use the SkipSummary variable. For … Continue reading →

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MDT2010: Automation – Getting Started

Posted on May 12, 2011 by Andrew Barnes

Once you get to grips with MDT 2010 you’ll want to start streamlining your deployments by removing unnecessary wizard panes. To begin with, you can have your Lite-Touch deployments auto login and skip the welcome screens. To start the deployment wizard without … Continue reading →

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MDT 2010: Automate Application Deployment

Posted on May 11, 2011 by Andrew Barnes

The installation of applications can be automated as part of a Lite-Touch deployment. There are times when you want to install an application after the operating system has been deployed. For example you may want to install an antivirus client … Continue reading →

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MDT 2010: Joining a Domain

Posted on May 10, 2011 by Andrew Barnes

When deploying an operating system, automating the domain join process is pretty straightforward. There is a task sequence step called Recover from Domain that runs a script called ZTIDomainJoin.WSF. This script automates the whole process. It uses variables that can be set in a task … Continue reading →

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MDT 2010: Skipping Deployment Wizard Pages

Posted on May 6, 2011 by Andrew Barnes

For MDT 2012 version of this post read here. When I first began deploying images using Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010, the most useful resource at my disposal was this table. It lists the Deployment Wizard pages shown during a Lite-Touch deployment … Continue reading →

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Missing Drivers

Posted on May 5, 2011 by Andrew Barnes

Nick Moseley has inspired me to write today’s blog with my own efforts. When I’m testing a new machine to add to MDT I have a time saving script that outputs the missing drivers for me. I kept losing this script … Continue reading →

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MDT 2010: Backup, Capture and P2V explained

Posted on May 4, 2011 by Andrew Barnes

One of the advantages that MDT gives over the traditional ghosting is the ability to backup your volumes during the task sequence. This, like everything requires planning. Backup, Capture and P2V can use some the some of the same settings so … Continue reading →

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