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Lagamorph

Confused about UDI

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Hi all,

 

I'm looking to put some steps into my task sequences where, at the start of the sequence, the user is prompted for some information. The information I'd like to prompt for is,

 

Computer name - This would be a text entry box

Site - This would be a drop down box and would assign the selected value to a Task Sequence variable

Domain - Like above, a drop down box and would assign the selected value to a Task Sequence variable

 

All in a user friendly GUI that will pop up more or less at the start of the task sequence (After disk formatting and downloading the toolkit files)

 

Looking around on Google, it appears that the UDI may be the best way to do this, but I'm a little confused when I try to dig deeper. When I've tried to create an MDT sequence using the wizard, the only option available to me is for a UDI Replace sequence, but I don't want to do a replace, I'm wanting to use this for Bare Metal builds on totally blank machines, so there will be no user information to capture. The task sequence will be started from a Boot image and/or PXE boot, not an existing OS installation in the SCCM client. I understand that this was a change in MDT2012 to combine UDI and ZTI task sequences, but it's left me a little confused on how to implement UDI in a bare metal build.

 

Are there any good guides available for how to use the UDI in a bare metal build this way? And potentially how to customise the wizard in what information it prompts for and what variable names it assigns this to in the case of custom variables we may use in condition queries during the task sequence?

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Thanks! That's given me a good starting point!

Have found some ways to get some custom task sequence variables configured from the wizard using a custom page, so just running some tests in my virtual dev environment. This could potentially solve a lot of potential issues we were going to face with our build...

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