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Feb 21

Microsoft Deployment Toolkit Notes

I´ve been working with MDT 2010 lately, and I seem to forget some basic stuff from time to time. I´m making this post to document some of the stuff I usually end up googling.

Pause Task Sequence in MDT
Create a Run Command Line task and insert the following

cscript.exe %SCRIPTROOT%\LTISuspend.wsf

Some variables for customsettins.ini
I keep forgetting some of the variables I use from time to time.


Variable Description
SkipBDDWelcome=YES Skip the Welcome screen. Might need this in bootstrap.ini also to make it work.
SkipAdminPassword=YES Skips the wizard for username, password and domain to connect to shares. Also needs these variables set in bootstrap.ini:UserID=<username>
UserDomain=<domain>
UserPassword=<password>
SkipSummary=YES
SkipFinalSummary=YES
 Skips the summary pages both on start and end of deployment.
SkipLocaleSelection=YES
KeyboardLocale=0414:00000414
UserLocale=nb-no
UILanguage=nb-no
Skips the Locale selection and sets the locale for the installation. In my case Norwegian. Make sure to use the correct language code and locale ID. Oddvar has mentioned this before.
SkipBuild=YES
BuildID=W7-X64-00
Skip the selection of Task Sequence ID. Make sure to point to the correct ID you want to automatically select.
_SMSTSOrgName=My Organisation Set the organization you want displayed.
SkipProductKey=YES Skip the product key screen. Great if you are using KMS.
SkipBITLocker=YES Skip Bitlocker screen.
SkipUserData=YES Skip USMT screen.
SkipCapture=YES Skip Capture screen.
JoinDomain=domain.local
DomainAdmin=domain_join
DomainAdminDomain=domain.local
DomainAdminPassword=domain_password
MachineObjectOU=OU=Computers,DC=Domain,DC=local
JoinWorkGroup=Workgroup
Variables to join a domain or workgroup. In this example I make the user choose whether to join workgroup or domain with predefined values.
SkipTimeZone=YES
TimeZoneName=Romance Standard Time
Skip and set time zone.
HideSHELL=YES Hides the Windows Shell during deployment in MDT 2012.

There are a lot of other variables for both customsettings.ini and bootstrap.ini. I´ll probably add more to this list later.

2 comments

  1. gyz

    HIDESHELL=YES is also a nice one to have..

    1. Frode Henriksen

      Indeed. That is however as far as I know for MDT 2012. I´ll add it though.

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