MDT 2012 Update 1: Roles and Features improvements

re: MDT 2012 Update 1: Roles and Features improvements

Bendo — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 01:13:07 GMT

Hi,

Great work,

How to configure the roles and features once installed? As in SMTP or IIS6 config? Is this possible with MDT?

Thanks.

re: MDT 2012 Update 1: Roles and Features improvements

Michael Niehaus — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 18:25:16 GMT

There are no definitive plans for the next release, so it's hard to say at this point.

re: MDT 2012 Update 1: Roles and Features improvements

Matt — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 18:12:59 GMT

In the a feature release is this pane going to be available in SCCM2012 using MDT?

re: MDT 2012 Update 1: Roles and Features improvements

Michael Niehaus — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 17:42:56 GMT

There's no simple way, although you could probably build a custom UDI wizard pane with a small list of roles to choose from (e.g. checkboxes).

re: MDT 2012 Update 1: Roles and Features improvements

Matt — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 17:12:57 GMT

Is it possible to get a Roles and Features pane using UDI or another method when deploying images using sccm2012?

re: MDT 2012 Update 1: Roles and Features improvements

Matt — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 13:43:06 GMT

When you say:

•Set up a network share containing the contents of the “sources\sxs” folder from the original Windows 8 or Windows Server 2012 media.

•Set a task sequence variable (either through CustomSettings.ini or directly in the task sequence) called “WindowsSource” that points to the location of that folder.

What do you mean in the second bullet by "location of that folder"? Do you mean the folder that house the complete install bits for Srv2012 or just the sources\sxs folder? I ask because I have setup a share, variable, and pointed it to the sxs folder, but I keep getting a "ZTIOSRole - unhandled error - permission denied" error when I get to the .NET install step in my TS.

Also, I'm not using MDT, I'm using SCCM with an MDT step, I set my variable first, then call the MDT Toolkit package, followed by a Gather, followed by .NET install via Install Roles and Features step.

Thanks for any help!

re: MDT 2012 Update 1: Roles and Features improvements

Andrew Barnes — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 16:14:30 GMT

I really like the use of powershell here.

re: MDT 2012 Update 1: Roles and Features improvements

Graeme — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 22:08:20 GMT

Michael, this was a great change. I had many roles and features installs that were failing because of the oddness with the first revision.

I did break everything though when I did the upgrade (without noticing)! Oops

re: MDT 2012 Update 1: Roles and Features improvements

Michael Niehaus — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 03:56:11 GMT

Yes, this is a breaking change - you would need to reconfigure any existing "Install Roles and Features" steps.

re: MDT 2012 Update 1: Roles and Features improvements

YPae — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 03:52:27 GMT

For obvious reason, due to this "awesome" change, I found that any previously created "Install Roles and Features" tasks within your existing task sequences won't work on MDT 2012 U1 until you manually specify OS and give a Condition... Thanks,