tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-91477691038378555692024-02-20T18:04:19.948-08:00The Lacie Tech BlogA Blog about daily encounters with technical computer stuff. Mainly about group policy, litetouch, MDT and windows deployment services.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9147769103837855569.post-19814974499909758242012-05-09T08:15:00.000-07:002012-05-09T08:15:00.482-07:00MDT 2012 Customize "Running: Lite Touch Installation"Customizing the MDT Progress bar.<div>
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There's various things you can do to the Litetouch progress bar. Today let's talk about the generic text that's displayed during deployments</div>
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"<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 16px;"><em style="color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold;">Running</em></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 16px;">: </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 16px;"><em style="color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold;">Lite Touch Installation"</em></span></blockquote>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;">That doesn't look too pretty now does it.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;">Well a new added feature in MDT is that you can change it via the "_SMSTSPackageName" variable on customsettings!</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;">This variable is unavailable in MDT2011 but in MDT2012 it is now parsed by ZTIGather.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;">Sample Customsettings.ini</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"><br /></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"><br /></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;">[Settings]</span></blockquote>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;">Priority=Default</span></blockquote>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;">[Default]</span></blockquote>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;">_SMSTSOrgName=IT SUPPORT YORK INC.</span></blockquote>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;">_SMSTSPackageName=Consult %_SMSTSOrgName% for your deployments.</span></blockquote>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;">Oh yes, you can use another variable within another variable- awesome!</span></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9147769103837855569.post-36653987048687017472012-05-03T11:42:00.000-07:002012-05-09T08:15:27.876-07:00MDT 2012 is outMDT 2012 is offically released.<br />
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You can head over here and download - <a href="http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/solutionaccelerators/dd407791">TechNet Download</a><br />
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MDT 2012 Change Log</h2>
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<ul style="color: #4f4f4f; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; list-style-type: disc; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 15px; margin-right: 15px; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">
<li style="margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Comprehensive tools and guidance to efficiently manage large-scale deployments of Windows 7 and Microsoft Office 365.</li>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">An enhanced user-Driven Installation (UDI) deployment method that utilizes System Center Configuration Manager 2012. UDI lets end users initiate and customize an OS deployment on their PCs—via an easy-to-use wizard.</li>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Ease Lite Touch installation through integration with Microsoft Diagnostics and Recovery Toolkit (DaRT).</li>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">This release provides support for deploying Windows 8 Consumer Preview in a lab environment.</li>
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<ul>
<li>_SMSTaskSequences</li>
<li>MININT</li>
</ul>
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Steps to solve the issue<br />
<ul>
<li>Delete the folders</li>
</ul>
OR<br />
<ul>
<li>Boot into your litetouch environment</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>Press F8 as soon as you see the background</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>Type the following:</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>Diskpart</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>Select Disk 0 <b>(Make sure this is the disk you want to erase/format)</b></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>Clean</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>Reboot the computer and boot into the litetouch environment or type startnet.cmd</li>
</ul>
</blockquote>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9147769103837855569.post-40473020635295379262011-06-08T10:32:00.000-07:002012-05-09T08:16:08.338-07:00Using MDT with Lenovo hardwareSome of you may already know this but the %Model% variable within customsettings.ini will not work for Lenovo based hardware. This is due to the fact Lenovo puts their "model type" in that field, and puts the actual model name in the Version field.<br />
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So this leads to issues when trying to inject drivers or software based on lenovo model,<br />
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But do not fret, there is a solution!<br />
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Once implemented you can then use the %LenovoModel% variable in customsettings.ini<br />
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Modify the ZTIGather.wsf to create a new LenovoModel variable<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>'/////////////////////////////////////////<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>' Get the Lenovo Model Version from the Win32_ComputerSystemProduct class<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>' Siva Mulpuru | 10:30 PM Monday, February 14, 2011<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Set objResults = objWMI.ExecQuery("select * from Win32_ComputerSystemProduct")<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>For Each objInstance In objResults<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>sLenovoModel = objInstance.Version<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Next<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>if sLenovoModel = "" then<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>oLogging.CreateEntry "Unable to determine LenovoModel tag via WMI.", LogTypeInfo<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>End if<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>'/////////////////////////////////////////// </blockquote>
Thanks Siva for writing the script!<br />
You can find his original post <a href="http://smulpuru.wordpress.com/2011/02/16/mdt-custom-variable-for-lenovo-model-drivergroup/">here</a>, I've pasted the code for ease of copy paste :DUnknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9147769103837855569.post-85539307120466073752011-06-08T10:15:00.000-07:002012-05-09T08:16:17.098-07:00MDT 2012 Beta 1 is out!Here are some of the new features and changes!<br />
(Taken from the official release documentation)<br />
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<div class="Text">
MDT 2012 Beta 1provides new capabilities, such as:</div>
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<ul>
<li>Support for Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2012 Beta 2, including the new application model and user device affinity (UDA).</li>
<li>Improved Lite Touch partitioning, supporting the preferred partition layouts described in the Windows Automated Installation Kit.</li>
<li>Support in Lite Touch for deploying 64-bit Windows® to computers that support Unified Extended Firmware Interface (UEFI) (without requiring compatibility support for legacy BIOS).</li>
<li>New Lite Touch “Deploy to VHD” task sequence templates that support deploying a Windows 7 or Windows Server® 2008 R2 image into a virtual hard disk (VHD) file that can then be used for booting the OS (“boot from VHD”).</li>
<li>Added support for deploying Windows ThinPC and Windows POSReady 7.</li>
<li>Improved Lite Touch wizard lookandfeel.</li>
<li>Continued support for System Center Configuration Manager 2007 SP2 and all operating systems supported by MDT 2010.</li>
<li>Many bug fixes and other small improvements.</li>
</ul>
</blockquote>
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<a href="https://connect.microsoft.com/site14/Downloads/DownloadDetails.aspx?DownloadID=8689">Download MDT 2012 BETA 1 Here</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9147769103837855569.post-71668254974802571352010-10-15T13:13:00.000-07:002012-05-09T08:16:35.260-07:00Migrating MDT 2010 from one server to another serverIt isn't as hard as it would seem. There may be other approaches to doing this, but I did a plain simple copy and paste on to the new server then edit the configuration files and update the image files and you're off to the horses!<br />
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<li>Copy the old share from the old server to the new server. ( Located in C:/Deploymentshare) </li>
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<ul>
<li>After it is finished copying, change the copied deployment share folder to be shared out. </li>
</ul>
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<ul>
<li>Open MDT on the new server then click on Open Deployment Share and point it to the copied deployment share on your C:</li>
</ul>
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<ul>
<li>Right click your deployment share in MDT and click properties change the UNC path to reflect the new deployment share.</li>
</ul>
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<ul>
<li>Change the boot.ini to reflect your new server.</li>
</ul>
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<ul>
<li>Oh, don't forget to update your litetouch image from the deployment server then update WDS!</li>
</ul>
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There you go- that's all folks!<br />
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<ul></ul>
</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9147769103837855569.post-47612114405084531092010-10-08T07:35:00.000-07:002012-05-09T08:16:47.232-07:00Installing Office 2007 through MDTOnce you import office 2007 you should get different options than any other application import- and you’re able to select more options within the office products tab.<br />
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Below I’ve selected the Enterprise.WW config, you can select different configs.<br />
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<br />
<ul>
<li>Select your config from the Drag down box</li>
<li>Enter your Volume License Key, Display Basic- and suppress reboot.</li>
<li>Go into Office Customization Tool and further customize your install.</li>
<li>Include updates within the update folder of the actual installation folder, C:/DeploymentShare/Applications/Office 2007/Updates and include any updates such as SP1 and SP2.</li>
<li>If required add another application such as SAVE AS PDF and make Office 2007 a dependency.</li>
</ul>
</blockquote>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9147769103837855569.post-21968039642775034172010-10-07T11:05:00.000-07:002012-05-09T08:17:03.090-07:00Using MDT to install applications if source computer is a laptop<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">How to create a task sequence to install a certain application if the computer is a laptop.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br />
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<div>
<ul>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Create a task sequence group (folder) named IsLaptop or Laptop.</span></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Click on the newly created sequence folder then go to options</span></span></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Add a rule for "Task sequence variable IsLaptop equals True"</span></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Now add as many install application task sequences as required into that folder.</span></span></li>
</ul>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Now you're litetouch installation will check if the deployment is a laptop and if it is- it will install the applications within that folder.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"></span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">IsLaptop Task Sequence</td></tr>
</tbody></table>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9147769103837855569.post-76874963228827096462010-10-07T10:50:00.004-07:002012-05-09T08:17:20.812-07:00Computer is not being renamed from customized wim image.I had this problem and I couldn't figure out what was wrong... until I read the MDT 2010 documentation.<br />
It took me a very long time to figure this out... I even sought for help on a forum<br />
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The problem:<br />
<blockquote>
I'm deploying machines after a customized captured wim machine.<br />
Customized wim computer name is XXXXX<br />
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When I deploy I put in the computer name when it asks, continue with my deployment- once it finishes the name doesn't get changed... it's still set to the customized wim computer name (XXXX).<br />
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Not sure what to make of it... weird part is that after the deployment if I go to the logs the folder name is the correct computer name, (each log is created in a folder after the computername variable).<br />
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So somewhere during the deployment the computer is not being renamed from the customized wim to the deployment...</blockquote>
The Fix:<br />
<blockquote>
ComputerName - This property has been deprecated. Use <strong>OSDComputerName </strong>instead.</blockquote>
.........<br />
<br />
Thanks for the heads up! (sarcasm)<br />
It would be nice to see the documentation also follow this up by editing their previous examples and replacing the ComputerName Variable with OSDComputerName!!<br />
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Oh and maybe let us know when creating the boot image by running the customsettings.ini against a syntax checker also if the variable is depreciated it should let us know.<br />
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Sorry folks, just a frustrating problem...Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9147769103837855569.post-6819062661882783932010-10-07T10:50:00.002-07:002012-05-09T08:17:32.532-07:00Sample CustomSettings.iniHere is an example of my CustomSettings.ini configuration, hope this helps someone :)<br />
<blockquote>
[Settings]<br />
Priority=Default<br />
Properties=MyCustomProperty<br />
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[Default]<br />
SLShare=\\LogServer\Logs$<br />
;Display Organization name as<br />
_SMSTSOrgName=MacLAREN McCANN ITG<br />
<br />
;Skip useless windows that remain the same during each setup...<br />
SkipDeploymentType=NO<br />
SkipAppsOnUpgrade=NO<br />
SkipCapture=NO<br />
SkipAdminPassword=YES<br />
SkipProductKey=YES<br />
SkipSummary=YES<br />
SkipLocaleSelection=YES<br />
SkipTimeZone=YES<br />
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UserLocale=en-US<br />
KeyboardLocale=0409:00000409<br />
UILanguage=en-US<br />
;Set the computer name value but allow it to be changeable<br />
ComputerName=XXXXXXX<br />
;Set the domain value as but require my confirmation wether to add to domain or not<br />
JoinDomain=na.corp.ipgnetwork.com<br />
;Set Workstation Machine OU as (LDAP)<br />
MachineObjectOU=OU=Workstations,OU=MCL,OU=10BAYS,OU=TOR,DC=na,DC=corp,DC=ipgnetwork,DC=com<br />
JoinWorkgroup=Maclaren<br />
<br />
OSInstall=Y<br />
;Display Organization name as<br />
OrgName=MacLAREN McCANN<br />
;Set Timezone<br />
TimeZone=35<br />
TimeZoneName=Eastern Standard Time<br />
;Set Password if skipped dialogue, note this is not encrypted<br />
admin_password=If_it_was_only_that_easy<br />
;Set Appearance<br />
BitsPerPel=32<br />
VRefresh=60<br />
XResolution=1280<br />
YResolution=1024<br />
<br />
;Set IE Homepage<br />
Home_page=http://home/<br />
<br />
;Don't install these windows updates (Office Live Addin, Windows Search)<br />
WUMU_ExcludeKB1=940157<br />
WUMU_ExcludeID1=af5c516f-1764-4dc0-b1e9-1e20dbee815c<br />
WUMU_ExcludeID2=9514bb43-f49d-499b-a655-9d64caf68976</blockquote>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9147769103837855569.post-18791342282137861552010-10-07T10:50:00.000-07:002012-05-09T08:17:49.431-07:00Windows 7 doesn't install on Litetouch - "The computer restarted unexpectedly or encountered an unexpected error."When creating or deploying an image on litetouch, after the installations near the end you blue screen with a message that says "Driver mistmatch... system..." then after a reboot you get the following error in a loop<br />
<blockquote>
"The computer restarted unexpectedly or encountered an unexpected error. Windows installation cannot proceed. To install windows, click "OK" to restart computer and then restart installation."</blockquote>
Solution:<br />
<blockquote>
Disable both inject driver tasks in your task sequences.</blockquote>
I'm not sure but I believe when creating/deploying the image litetouch injects drivers from XP into the windows 7 install causing it to fail.<br />
<br />
If anyone has any other fixes please share!<br />
<br />
Thanks!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9147769103837855569.post-43420016648862297142010-10-07T10:49:00.002-07:002012-05-09T08:18:27.747-07:00MDT/LTI Crashes on XP installation iastore.sys error 4Well... we have the nice folks at intel to thank for this- but in any case here is the fix.<br />
<br />
Open up your deployment toolkit and click on out-of-box drivers,<br />
Remove all the iastor.sys drivers and grab the latest ones from intel.<br />
<blockquote>
<ul>
<li> Go to Intel and download the Intel Matrix Storage Manager<br />
http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?agr=Y&DwnldID=17882&lang=eng</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>Run the downloaded file with the -a argument in command line.<br />
Example: IATA89ENU.exe -a</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>Open MDT, Click on out-of-box drivers then click on import new drivers, point to:</li>
<li>C:\program files\intel matrix storage\</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>Update your litetouch image, and replace it on WDS (if running it) and you should be good to go! :)</li>
</ul>
</blockquote>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9147769103837855569.post-60902955019034986952010-10-07T10:49:00.000-07:002012-05-09T08:18:54.008-07:00Removing Office Live Add-in and Live Essentials from MDTIn the MDT CustomSettings.ini (Rules) include the lines:<br />
<blockquote>
WUMU_ExcludeID1=af5c516f-1764-4dc0-b1e9-1e20dbee815c<br />
WUMU_ExcludeID2=9514bb43-f49d-499b-a655-9d64caf68976</blockquote>
This would remove both offlice live add-in and live essentials from being installed.<br />
If you're wondering which ID is which see below:<br />
<br />
Office Live-Add-In<br />
ID: af5c516f-1764-4dc0-b1e9-1e20dbee815c<br />
<br />
Windows Live Essentials<br />
ID: 9514bb43-f49d-499b-a655-9d64caf68976Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9147769103837855569.post-3376508005268864932010-10-07T10:48:00.001-07:002012-05-09T08:19:06.157-07:00Lite Touch crashing after IE8 installation (Memory Reference errors)This is one annoying bug. If you add the IE7 or IE8 installation to MDT and run the installer in passive or quiet mode- you will receive error messages during your deployments. These errors don't affect the outcome of the deployment, all is well and dandy but it is a bit of a piss off when you have to press okay a couple of 4 times after receiving memory access errors.<br />
<br />
The reason this happens is because the IE8 installation will attempt to restart after installing, before notifying litetouch it is completed the install so litetouch will abruptly get closed and shutdown, causing it to spam a serveral error messages as it's being killed off.<br />
<br />
<strong>The solution<br />
</strong> <span style="font-weight: normal;">In MDT edit Internet Explorer's command line to run with the "update-no" and "norestart" option. Then add a checkmark the restart computer after installing this application. See below for the complete command.<br />
</span><br />
<blockquote>
IE8-WindowsXP-x86-ENU.exe /quiet /update-no /norestart</blockquote>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9147769103837855569.post-27643683326648041072010-10-07T10:47:00.000-07:002012-05-09T08:19:40.362-07:00Remove Windows Desktop Search from Lite Touch InstallationFor some unknown reason the workstations here automatically get WDS (Windows Desktop Search) installed once lite touch starts grabbing updates from windows update. You would think it's a bloody optional update- apparently not!<br />
<br />
In anycase, I've figured out two ways to remove this from the systems.<br />
<h3>
<strong>Method 1 </strong><strong>- Create a vbscript to remove the bloody software after it gets installed.</strong></h3>
Creating a task sequance inside your build - I called it "RemoveWDS" and selected it to be added as a run as command line sequance. This task sequance runs the following command:<br />
<blockquote>
cscript.exe "%SCRIPTROOT%\RemoveWindowsSearch.vbs"</blockquote>
Then create the actual vbs script inside %SCRIPTROOT% ( the script directory on your distribution point) containing the following code:<br />
<blockquote>
Set objShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")<br />
objShell.Run("%comspec% /k %systemroot%\$NtUninstallKB940157$\spuninst\spuninst.exe /q")</blockquote>
<strong>Method 2 - Exclude the update from lite touch.</strong><br />
In the MDT CustomSettings.ini (Rules) include the line "WUMU_ExcludeKB1=940157" (this would exclude the windows search update before even installing it).<br />
<blockquote>
WUMU_ExcludeKB1=940157</blockquote>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0