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Unanswered Windows deployment wizard

  • Tuesday, January 22, 2013 3:44 AM
     
     
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    Hi,

    I am trying to deploy Windows 7 with few applications in on new machine. The below steps are displayed after F12 PXE Boot.

    Select the Task Sequence
    Specify the product key needed to install this operating system
    Configure the Computer Name
    Join the machine in domain
    Specify whether to restore data and settings
    Set the time Zone
    Select one or more applications to install
    Select to Enable bitlocker
    Ready to begin

    I need to disable the below task sequences.  How do i disable it in MDT

    Specify the product key needed to install this operating system
    Specify whether to restore data and settings
    Set the time Zone
    Select one or more applications to install
    Select to Enable bitlocker

    Regards,

    Boopathi S



     

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  • Tuesday, January 22, 2013 6:16 AM
     
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    SkipProductKey=YES

    You can find the documentation in the link below, its great :)

    http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=25175

     
  • Tuesday, January 22, 2013 10:51 AM
     
     
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    hi Samus,

    It is already there in the CustomSettings.ini. But still i am asking to select product key and applications, Please help me to fond the issue

    [Default]
    OSInstall=Y
    SkipBDDWelcome=YES
    SkipAdminPassword=YES
    SkipLocaleSelection=YES
    KeyboardLocale=0409:00004009
    KeyboardLocalePE=0409:00004009
    SkipApplications=YES
    SkipAppsOnUpgrade=YES
    SkipCapture=YES
    SkipProductKey=YES
    SkipTimeZone=YES
    TimeZoneName=India Standard Time
    SkipBitLocker=YES
    SkipUserData=YES

     
  • Tuesday, January 22, 2013 12:20 PM
     
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    Hmm that is strange. If you have a volume license key then you can add it with:

    ProductKey=AAAAA-BBBBB-CCCCC-DDDDD-EEEEE-FFFFF

    But i think it is weird that you get the wizzard even though you have the Skip-parameter. Could you take a look at the ZTIgather.log and see what value SkipProductKey and  SkipApplications have? maybe you could upload the log file anywhere so i can take a look?

     
  • Tuesday, January 22, 2013 1:15 PM
     
     
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    Make sure you update your deployment share so these settings will be updated. This could help
     
  • Tuesday, January 22, 2013 5:28 PM
     
     
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    After you make the changes to your CustomSettings.ini, you need to right click on the deployment share and update.  Then take the newly update boot.wim and reimport into WDS boot images.

    Thanks! Nate

     
  • Thursday, January 24, 2013 12:18 PM
     
     
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    I restored the Script folder from backup and I am able to get the settings I required

    Thanks

     
  • Thursday, January 24, 2013 1:42 PM
     
     
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    actually you don't need to update you deployment share if you update your customsettings.ini since it isn't included in your boot image.

    you only need to update your deployment share when you add boot critical drivers like NIC/MSD drivers or when you updated your bootstrap.ini

     
  • Thursday, January 24, 2013 9:34 PM
     
     
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    Are you sure?

    I think updating the deployment share will also trigger other actions, but I am not sure.
    Don't confuse this with boot image generation!

    Usually MDT recognizes very well if the boot image needs to be regenerated, there should be no harm in doing it. (It never regenerated the boot images for me when it was not necessary, but it sometimes missed to regenerate it when it was actually required)

     
  • Friday, January 25, 2013 8:04 AM
     
     
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    it also checks if you changed what kind of packages you want in your boot image yes but you won't need to update it if all you did is change your customsettings.ini.
    When i was testing i made changes to it all the time without needing to update my deployment share.

     
  • Sunday, January 27, 2013 6:45 PM
     
     
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    make sure you update the deployment share. I also believe that while creating the task sequence u unchecked the ask for produckt key.

    Regards, Shishir Kushawaha "If this thread answered your question, please click on "Mark as Answer"