GeoffW Posted January 6, 2012 Report post Posted January 6, 2012 We are wondering if moving to SCCM 2012 (from 2007) would save us some required work. We are currently in a project for our college to prepare (with the help of this site and others, thank you very much : ) some HTA frontends to use with SCCM 2007. In particular, we want to allow helpdesk techs to bring up a computer and boot from a thumb drive, CD, or PXE boot and get a HTA that leads them through installaing a new operating system. It could ask for the name of the new computer to be used as a new entry in SCCM, or if this was a migration effort in which case it would retain the current name, whether a 32 bit or 64 bit image was required, etc., etc. Then they click on "go" and it all gets done. This will also allow us to, hopefully, use student temporary help. You have covered much of this in your HTA forum, so nothing new (and your info is very much appreciated). All that said, we are wondering if all the above is necessary for SCCM 2012? That is, is the functionality that HTA's provided in SCCM 2007 now already built into SCCM 2012? At least to the point of having minimally trained (or, just a way to speed things up) student employees safely and correctly install (or, migrate) new operating systems on a new (or to be refurbished) computer. If such is the case, then we may decide to spend the time migrating to SCCM 2012 instead of working on the HTA front ends. However, if HTA front ends are going to remain necessary for SCCM 2012, then we will spend the time creating HTA front ends for SCCM 2007 (and make the transition to SCCM 2012 much later this year). The automation/ease of use that HTA front ends provide is our biggest priority at this time. If anyone has any input on this question, I would most appreciate hearing it. Thanks, Geoff Weatherford CVMBS CSU Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter van der Woude Posted January 7, 2012 Report post Posted January 7, 2012 At task sequence level not much has changed in that way. Also, in my opinion, on a HTA level there's not much they can integrate in SCCM, as a HTA is really customer specific... If you do need the HTA extra's then you can also choose to integrate MDT... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
anyweb Posted January 9, 2012 Report post Posted January 9, 2012 HTA's provide additional functionality and customizability that doesn't exist in the product out of box, so you will most likely see many HTA's for SCCM 2012 once it finally goes RTM. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wmmayms Posted January 9, 2012 Report post Posted January 9, 2012 Before digging to deep into the code you should look into MDT just like Peter said. Depending on your needs it might save you some time :-) PS: here is a cool tool for customizing the wizards: http://deploymentbunny.com/2011/05/26/modifying-the-lite-touch-wizard-in-mdt-2010-sample-2/ Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeoffW Posted January 9, 2012 Report post Posted January 9, 2012 We will go ahead and work with the HTAs for SCCM 2007. Appreciate the link to the MDT Wizard editor. Thanks - GeoffW - Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
