[Windows 10 Reference Image Issues]

No need to disclose anything just be warned that LTSB cannot be used for regular computers. So as long as your company is aware of that it's ok. What happens when you create a reference image without languagepack and do not speficy any language properties in your cs.ini?

[Windows 10 Reference Image Issues]

First of all what is your use for LTSB? Are you deploying kiosks, bank terminals or POS systems than ok, if not DO NOT USE LTSB.

Second, did you download your ISO from  the myvisualstudio downloads section or somewhere else? You will need to check your unattend.xml and then especially the OOBE section in the XML file. It needs to be something like this:

                <HideEULAPage>true</HideEULAPage>

                <HideOnlineAccountScreens>true</HideOnlineAccountScreens>

                <HideWirelessSetupInOOBE>true</HideWirelessSetupInOOBE>

                <NetworkLocation>Work</NetworkLocation>

                <ProtectYourPC>1</ProtectYourPC>

                <HideOEMRegistrationScreen>true</HideOEMRegistrationScreen>

                <HideLocalAccountScreen>true</HideLocalAccountScreen>

 

Cheers! Rens

[Office in reference image]

Sure no problem, and make sure you have downloaded and extracted the service packs of Office 2010 and put them in the .\updates folder in the root of your Office 2010 directory. Will make patching much faster because of the updates already present in the SP's.

Use <sp_file>.exe /extract:<folder>

[Office in reference image]

That should be correct

[Office in reference image]

I'd say not, as long as you initiate the Office 2010 Rearm vbs, which is enabled by default in MDT when you are doing a sysprep. Look it up in the scripts.

LTISysprep.wsf:

 

        '//----------------------------------------------------------------------------
        '//  Rearm Office 2010 if it is present
        '//----------------------------------------------------------------------------

        If not UCase(oEnvironment.Item("SkipRearm")) = "YES" then
            For each sOSPPPath in Array(oEnvironment.Substitute("%ProgramFiles%\Common Files\microsoft shared\OfficeSoftwareProtectionPlatform\OSPPREARM.EXE"), oEnvironment.Substitute("%ProgramFiles(x86)%\Common Files\microsoft shared\OfficeSoftwareProtectionPlatform\OSPPREARM.EXE"))
                If oFSO.FileExists(sOSPPPath) then

                    oLogging.CreateEntry "Re-arming Office 2010 activation", LogTypeInfo
                    iRetVal = oUtility.RunWithConsoleLogging("""" & sOSPPPath & """")
                    If iRetVal = 0 then
                        oLogging.CreateEntry "Re-armed Office 2010 successfully.", LogTypeInfo
                    Else
                        oLogging.CreateEntry "Unexpected return code while re-arming Office 2010, RC = " & iRetVal, LogTypeWarning
                    End if

                End if

            Next
        Else
            oLogging.CreateEntry "Re-arming skipped by user request.", LogTypeInfo
        End if

 

Cheers! Rens

[How to create Windows 10 base install.wim]

Hi,

 

Do you want to make any modifications to the installation or just want to use the original install.wim? Because that is located on X:\Sources on your Windows ISO or DVD

 

Cheers! Rens

[How can I deploy Skype for Business office365 version?]

Hello Luca,

 

Indeed, setup.exe /download download's the files you want to download in relation to your Office 365 subscription. You can automatically generate a download and installation xml file through this generator: https://officedev.github.io/Office-IT-Pro-Deployment-Scripts/XmlEditor.html

 

Then this will download the files, and you can use a different XML file as I've shown in my articles to actually install the Office-Click-to-Run installation.

 

Cheers! Rens

[How can I deploy Skype for Business office365 version?]

Luca,

 

Skype for Business is part of an Office 365 plan. See these articles I've written on how to deploy Office 365

 

1. http://renshollanders.nl/2014/02/office-365-automatic-deployment-of-office-365-with-mdt/

2. http://renshollanders.nl/2015/08/office-365-updated-deployment-guide/

3. http://renshollanders.nl/2015/10/office-365-get-office-365-wave-2016-now/

 

Be sure to read them in this order, because some information is superseeded by my latest articles.

 

Cheers! Rens

[MDT Deployment Wizard - Trying to skip unwanted deployment pages]

Have a look over here, I've written an article that helps you to do just that:

http://renshollanders.nl/2013/02/mdt-2012-settings-for-fully-automated-lti-deployment-part-ii-customsettings-ini/

Also see this website for reference:

http://systemscenter.ru/mdt2012.en/propertydefinition.htm

 

The cool thing is people start googling and open threads rightaway before even reading the help file, the second link is just that! An online version of the help file / articles present in MDT

 

Cheers! Rens

[Disable IPv6 via task sequence SCCM 2012]

Hi, have a look here:

https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windows/en-US/58c49d17-651f-46e7-aa61-db92bedfe0dd/disable-ipv6

 

It's all about these three command lines:

netsh interface teredo set state disable

netsh interface 6to4 set state disabled

netsh interface isatap set state disabled

Cheers! Rens

[.NET 4.5 fails to install during OSD TS...will install normally as application]

AppEnforce.log shows "exit code 16389" when attempting to install the .NET 4.5 application I have as part of an OSD; however, if I deploy the application directly to a collection with the device, then it will install without any issue.

 

The app also has the "allow this application to be installed from the Install Application..." option checked.

 

Appenforce is also showing that it is correctly installing under the system context, so I don't believe it is a user context issue.

 

Has anyone else run into a scenario like this? What are some additional clues I should be looking for?

 

Did you install or slipstream a language pack during OSD before .NET framework? If so, change the order into .NET first, language pack second!

 

Cheers! Rens

[MDT 2013 Domain joining]

You can place the following information into your customsettings.ini for automatic joining of the domain:

MachineObjectOU=OU=Computers,OU=Laptops,DC=contoso,DC=local

NetworkLocation=Work

JoinDomain=contoso

DomainAdmin=srv-rollout

DomainAdminDomain=contoso

DomainAdminPassword=P@55w0rd

Or store the same information in individual task sequence variables in your task sequence, so only desired task sequences can hold the domain join information.

Cheers! Rens

[Partiotioning the Harddisk during OSD]

Hi this is perfectly possible using a diskpart script and refresh scenario during MDT or just only the "Install Operating System" step in ConfigMgr.

 

Basically it should exist out of the following options / commandlines that are written in a little text file called "Format-C-Only" (or something like that):

 

SELECT disk 0

SELECT partition 1

FORMAT FS=NTFS LABEL="Windows" QUICK OVERRIDE

ASSIGN

ACTIVE

EXIT

Then it can be called from within your task sequence like so: DISKPART /S X:\Format-C-Only.txt

Note that the OVERRIDE switch is important, when for instance you are using disks that are bitlockerd, and in any other case it doesn't hurt to use it too.

If you want to put in other options, please visit this link for other DISKPART command line features: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc766465(v=ws.10).aspx

Lastly if you want to do a check if a computer has been partitioned with the scheme a previous time, there are conditions to set in both MDT and SCCM that do a check for a file, timestamp, presence of a file, or something like that.

I always like to tattoo my machine with information that I pritty much echo from my task sequence variables into a little text file called "DeploymentInfo", which I use as a condition to check if the file exists, and if it exists, I assume the machine has been deployed a previous time.

Cheers! Rens

[Auto create computername]

Hi, depending on which tool you are using, this may be an example which will help you get further:

http://www.deploymentresearch.com/Research/tabid/62/EntryId/103/Generate-computer-names-in-MDT-2012-2013-based-on-prefix-and-a-sequence-number.aspx

 

It was already possible to store computernames in a database with MDT, just as it is with SCCM. But this blogpost explains how to achieve hostnames that are automatically followed-up by the previous/last given hostname.

 

Cheers!

[WQL query where reg key is not present]

Hi,

 

This is what you are looking for:

http://flylib.com/books/en/2.568.1.35/1/

 

From that post, use the following: SELECT * FROM RegistryValueChangeEvent WHERE Hive = 'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE' AND KeyPath = 'SOFTWARE\\MICROSOFT\\WBEM\\CIMOM' AND ValueName = 'Backup Interval Threshold'

 

Cheers Rens!