Microsoft Deployment Toolkit - Lite Touch Video Walkthrough

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Benno — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 16:09:54 GMT

Hi Richard, I can't download the file I think the link is broken.

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bddinstaller — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 16:44:26 GMT

Hi Richard,

Not sure if other people are having same problem, but I am unable to download the provided zipped file. I can download your other two with no problems.

thanks

-Charles

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DeploymentGuys — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 17:52:54 GMT

Apologies - we are having some issues with the download location so I have updated the post with a different location - please try the download again...Richard

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Jeremy — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 18:39:49 GMT

Best and most portable deployment demos ever! You do good work.

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Johnny Cadavid — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 18:48:48 GMT

The download link worked for me. I have a somewhat silly question. Has anyone ever tried to use MDT in conjunction with Visual Source Safe? Currently have it set up like that and now I am running into problems. I personally don't want VSS on the server, but my boss is saying otherwise. Has anyone ever tried to use BDD2007 or earlier versions with VSS 2005?

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bddinstaller — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 21:30:15 GMT

Hi Richard,

I'm having an issue with MDT and a couple commands in CustomSettings.ini

SkipDeploymentType=YES

DeploymentType=REFRESH

Whenever I introduce either of these commands, I can get to the summary page with the "begin" button, but it fails soon as I press "begin".

Nothing happens. I have to go to C: and delete the MININT folder and try again.

It deploys with no issues if I pull those commands out. I want to be able to hide that screen and have it preset when the techs launch the LiteTouch.vbs shortcut.

thanks

-Charles

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jibutoms — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 07:54:43 GMT

I am not sure whether this is the right place to post my question.

In order to suit our deployment activities, we have created an additional wizard screen. We need to show an additional property (say SkipCustomWizard) within the database property tab (computer, roles, Location and Make & Model). I have created additional column in the “dbo.settings” table for SkipCustomWizard and refreshed the views too. I can see the new property in the view, but not able to bring into the "details" tab of database properties. Is there a way to do this? Please help.

Thanks

-Jibu

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BenHunter — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 11:59:38 GMT

Hi Jibu,

I would strongly recommend that you do not change the MDT DB. This will cause issues if you ever want to upgrade.

There is also no way to any custom fields in the deployment workbench.

Instead I would use the “spare” fields that MDT provides. The fields are SERVERA and SERVERB.

So simply assign the values to these spare fields and then reference them in the wizard or scripts.

Thanks,

Ben

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jon sloan — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 23:41:34 GMT

Quick and perhaps silly question, but do i need to install WDS in order to use MDT? I've downloaded the 1.1 waik, insatlled the MDT, but the documentation doesnt say if i need to install windows deployment services, or if MDT alone is able to handle pxe booting or boot from wim?

any ideas?

thanks

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Daniel Oxley — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 00:06:48 GMT

@Jon Solan

Hi Jon,

No, WDS is not a requirement to use MDT. You only need WDS if you plan on PXE-booting the machines to do a network deployment without any existing SMS/ConfigMgr infrastructure.

HTH,

Daniel

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Ricardo Gaspar — Tue, 06 May 2008 02:13:56 GMT

Great video.... thanks...

Ricardo Gaspar

Portugal

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Johnny_Carnage — Wed, 14 May 2008 01:04:59 GMT

Thanks for the video!! It cleared up many questions and issues. I only wish the video was a little longer and that we drilled down into the customizing task sequences.

MDT Video Lite Touch Walkthrough

Blog de David Sebban [MSFT] — Thu, 22 May 2008 15:11:52 GMT

Richard Smith vient de publier une vidéo (en anglais) sur le blog des deployment guys presentant un scénario

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kellyk.gallant@aliant.ca — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 14:50:48 GMT

Hi Richard,

Great video! I was wondering something though.

I've imported a new operating system (Windows XP SP2) without any modifications in the workbench, then in my lab task sequence > Install > Install Operating System, I changed it to my new OS that I added previously. Then, I right click on my lab deployment point and update. Once the new LiteTouchPE_x86.iso is created, I burn it to CD and boot my build machine with it. The problem is at the first panel, when prompted for network credentials, it can’t find my network because I’m assuming the network card drivers didn’t get added somehow to the new iso. If I revert my task sequence back to the previous OS, update the deployment point, burn the ISO to CD again and boot from it, it works fine.

Is there something I have to manually modify in the iso to make it usable?

Thanks.

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Neil C — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 16:16:45 GMT

I am having problems deploying an XP image using MDT 2008 / WDS. It is taking hours to copy the Windows Source files across to two clients.

Can you offer anywhere to look to speed things up?

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KevinL — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 18:42:32 GMT

Here is the situation, I've loaded MDT 2008 and updated it to 4.2 without issue on my desktop. However, when I created the same thing on a server copying the distribution share plus added a few new wim images. I get a bad pool error when i go to run the lite touch installation. It gets pass the loading phase but when the scrolling green bars pass 2 times, I get the error. I've double checked everything and it seems to be in order. On another note I went back to the desktop loaded the new wim from the server and burned a new disk and I got the bad pool error again. I really don't understand how or what is happening. But what I do know is that for my state of mind I used the orginal desktop disk I burned to use on the desktop and it boots and loads all of the wim's, but I need it to work on the server to get it off of my workstation. Any ideas???

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marlon trim — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 19:32:41 GMT

how would i know if i have the mdt lite touch, is the mdt 2008 the same or is it different.

I installed mdt 2008 and i am having an issue when configuring the office application. i installed office 2003, visio 2003 and project 2003 and i dont see the office TAB to configure the license or the setup of office

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JasonM — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 22:46:24 GMT

Great video walkthrough. Helped me with the last little bit that I was missing, now its running great.

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mat717 — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 23:08:34 GMT

i have installed MDT 2008 is there a difference between MDT 2008 and MDT Lite touch.

The problem i am having is i installed office 2003, visio and project 2003 and I dont get the office product TAB in application to configure office. is there another software for me to download to see this tab.

mat717

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bill — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 03:06:40 GMT

great video wish i would have watched it last week!!

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Adam — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 22:56:14 GMT

Great Video, I am looking for more information on the next steps. Is there a guide to explain how to deploy the final image? Can this be done zero touch with MDT or do i have to get SCCM? I notice that there were no instructions on using the MDT database. Could someone point me in the direction of how to use the database and what it is for?

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gaffer — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 23:50:36 GMT

I have been spending a week learning WAIK, running endless images and deployment techniques, all just because I wish to make my own OS recover the way I wish and also be preinstalled with updates, apps and drivers in case of a reinstall.

MDT is awesome and video is so helpful now. However, I just don't seem to be bright enough to figure out how to not point to a network location. I wish to deploy an image and then capture it , pointing to a drive location .. not a network drive :( I am sure it is a simple 3-4 choices but pleaseeee can someone help me. I look and look for examples or guides using MDT without WDS (I am rebuilding my Vista on Vista and can't stand OEM recovery disks with their crap ad and spam programs). Please a friendly soul give me pointers. Kind regards,

a gaffer

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Andrea — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 15:23:07 GMT

I use MDT and have a network deploymetn point- but it's on the same machine as the MDT, it's just a separate share. If you're running Vista you can a whole pc backup to an external drive to back up the pc that's running MDT, in case of failure.