Back to basics #2 – 7 Things you shouldn’t do in a LiteTouch Deployment

re: Back to basics #2 – 7 Things you shouldn’t do in a LiteTouch Deployment

Scrubby — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 23:55:00 GMT

Thanks all y'all - for the whole thing. I have learned more useful and applicable information from this one blog than from all the docs and other TechNet articles on MDT combined. Go get yourselves a pay raise!

re: Back to basics #2 – 7 Things you shouldn’t do in a LiteTouch Deployment

AD — Tue, 05 May 2009 02:23:54 GMT

I would like to use The BBD Database to prestage my pc and then have the build read the information the dadabase, to check assettag serialnumber, Build Ou, Image version and last think ig it is allowed to build or not. I know it is possible but how do i get it to work.. please help.

thanks

re: Back to basics #2 – 7 Things you shouldn’t do in a LiteTouch Deployment

atolica — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 00:58:15 GMT

Hi guys

sorry to write my problem here but I can't find an old thread

I am trying to build a master image using MDT beta 2

I "successfully" wiped an entire drive using diskpart.wsf diskpart.txt routine.

my diskpart.txt should've just formatthe first partition on disk 0 and not wipe it clean.

diskpart.txt looks like this

select disk 0

select partition 1

format fs=ntfs

assign letter=c

active

Instead the disk was cleaned and two partitons were created, one OSdisk and one 300 mb in size. What is wrong here?

Also the applications sequence task didn't run at all. I don't think the sysprep / generalize ran at all because the installation stopped with the Administrator account logged on.

I am going nuts.

Anyone?

re: Back to basics #2 – 7 Things you shouldn’t do in a LiteTouch Deployment

BenHunter — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 02:48:32 GMT

Hi,

This is a default partition that is created by Windows 7 and Windows 2008 R2. It is so that you can have space to enable BitLocker at a later time.

To disable funjctionality this you can add the following line to the customsettings.ini file:

DoNotCreateExtraPartition=YES

Thanks,

Ben

re: Back to basics #2 – 7 Things you shouldn’t do in a LiteTouch Deployment

Atolica — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 17:24:45 GMT

Hi Ben

I looked over ztidiskpart.wsf script and found two lines that run the "clean" command. If I delete those two lines, as I don't want my disks wiped out, the install breaks.

I don't see any advantages in using the script for what I need. I'll stick to diskpart.exe /s diskpart.txt.

Thank you.

Atolica

Sysprep not running

Atolica — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 11:24:26 GMT

Hi Ben

I wrote you in another post about a sysprep error. Can you tell me what's wrong?

"Windows could not finish configuring the system. To attempt to resume configuration restart computer".

That comes up after I run sysprep /generalize /quiet /oobe, and restart the pc in oobe mode.

I'm running sysprep manually because it won't run automatically from the task sequence(after installing applications). The process stops entirely.

Thank you.

Regards

Atolica