MDT 2012 New Feature: DaRT integration

re: MDT 2012 New Feature: DaRT integration

click-click — Sun, 14 Apr 2013 09:59:51 GMT

"Tool requires a supported offline OS" is caused by a missing BCD when booting DaRT8. In my case, it does not have the smarts to handle multiboot systems if it can't find a BCD to use. Now, how dumb is that for a recovery app?

If you use DaRT7 in the same situation, it will create the BCD for you and ask you to reboot. Once you have this BCD, it can also be used for DaRT8. I now keep the BCD on my flash drive where I boot either DaRT7 or DaRT8 from and this allows me to use all of the DART tools now that I have an option of choosing a system for repair.

re: MDT 2012 New Feature: DaRT integration

click-click — Sun, 07 Apr 2013 12:16:45 GMT

I just got around to creating a DaRT8 iso. I used the Dart defaults and during creation, all tools were shown as selected. I booted the iso without any problems, but I cannot use all of the tools. All are listed, but some have no active links and cannot be launched.

Also DaRT 8 is erroneously not finding any offline systems and the Recovery Tools screen for OS selection does not appear for me. I have a multi-boot setup where drive1 has XP and Vista and drive2 has Win7 and Win8. All are bootable. I don't understand why DaRT has a problem finding them.

I've seen on other forums that I'm not the only one with this problem. Do you have any ideas how to fix this?

re: MDT 2012 New Feature: DaRT integration

Michael Niehaus — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 17:18:59 GMT

DaRT only works in Windows PE, so as soon as you boot into the full OS you would need to use a remote desktop connection (as Administrator to the console) to watch what was going on.

-Michael

re: MDT 2012 New Feature: DaRT integration

DaRT 8.0 Integration No Connection after Reboot — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 14:57:22 GMT

curious if this is how it works or not i have setup the DaRT 8.0 Integration and i can remotely connect to a deployment my problem seems to be as the machine reboots and then starts to install applications i cannot remote to connect. is this because it is now booting to the OS instead of the WinPE is there anyway to get it to remote connect in the same way to monitor??

re: MDT 2012 New Feature: DaRT integration

Jeff Irvine — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 21:55:15 GMT

This is a great article, thank you. I've got just about everything working except for Defender. It pops an error that states "The tool failed to run. Try choosing another tool." Any ideas?

re: MDT 2012 New Feature: DaRT integration

Jason — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 12:22:44 GMT

I have successfully integrated the DaRT feauture in my MDT 2012 Menu. Thank you by the way for all the wonderful information you put out there. I have also implemented a driver selection screen following one of your posts.

My question here is I do not have the "Run the Windows recovery Wizard" option in my menu and I am wondering if you can expnad on that or point me to another post you may have done. Looking at another post i found it looks like it may be due to my WAIK version. I am at Win PE 3.0 and we deploy Win 7 Ent SP1, so is this a matter of my WinPe is 7600 and my wim is 7601?

Thank you in adavance,

Jason

re: MDT 2012 New Feature: DaRT integration

LittleSky — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 08:56:07 GMT

If the Windows 7 system enables syskey and EFS, can the user still able to read those EFS-encrypted files without having to reimport the EFS certificate, after his/her password resetted by LockSmitch?

re: MDT 2012 New Feature: DaRT integration

Michael Niehaus — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 21:12:49 GMT

MDT includes a default DartConfig.dat file that enables all components. You could use the DaRT wizard to generate a new one of these that disables some components, then overwrite the DartConfig.dat file in the MDT installation directory with your modified version.

re: MDT 2012 New Feature: DaRT integration

Joshua — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 21:06:28 GMT

Is it possible to turn off the Locksmith tool or password protect the use of DaRT?

re: MDT 2012 New Feature: DaRT integration

Michael Niehaus — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 19:07:28 GMT

The DaRT items that aren't enabled when you choose the "Run DaRT Tools" option on the MDT "welcome" wizard would be enabled if you chose the "Run Windows Recovery Wizard" option. That would show you the "select an OS" wizard that you are familiar with; once you've made that choice, you can then choose "DaRT" from the WinRE menu and the options will be enabled.

We didn't want to force you through that route, because the "Windows Recovery Wizard" option is only available if we can find a boot.wim that matches the WAIK version. And you might not have an OS on the machine, but you still want to use some of the tools.