This used to be part of the ADK, but has been moved to a separate install. You can find the download link on this page. This is what triggers MDT to recreate your boot images. If you haven't installed the WinPE add-on, wait until after that is installed to update.
If you already have the WinPE add-on, update the deployment share anyway. I don't think it builds the LiteTouch files until you do. ADK is already installed. When I try to update deployment share this the message I get. I tried to uninstall and reinstall ADK but still having same error message. That error tells me you didn't install the WinPE add-on.
Might want to do the WSIM update as well same link above in case you have to modify any unattend. To continue this discussion, please ask a new question. There is another feature called DriverGroup that will help you do some more advanced filtering.
For this scenario I recommend that you don't use the default PnP ID detection based method, but instead use DriverGroup as a filter for the drivers. The configuration in MDT is that you first create two folders inside Out-of-box drivers, for example named Windows 7 x64 and Windows 8. Then you create subfolders for each model you have. Then you download and extract the drivers for each model, and per operating system.
Then import each per operating system folder and per model into the correct folder in the Deployment Workbench. Please note that selection profiles and driver groups work together meaning if I have a selection profile including driver A, and a driver group including driver B, both drivers will be added. Most times you only want one or the other but they can be combined.
When using drivers per model I recommend you to use the selection profile named Nothing for the Inject Drivers action. Also, to avoid having issues with drivers not detected by plug and play within the folder DriverGroup , I recommend forcing driver injection by changing the Inject Drivers action property to " Install all drivers from the selection profile ". One question though, using the Total Control method; imagine we deploy a new device model and there aren't any model specific drivers for that model in MDT OoBD.
Would it be possible to point that device to use, for example, a fallback selection profile with just basic drivers? Or any other way to handle drivers for devices that doesn't have any model specific drivers in MDT? Then use that variable as a condition on the drivergroup action. Hi Johan, we use the total control process. But we have a lot of devices, especially from Lenovo.
For each model we import new drivers and now our "driver-database" is aprox. But the modelname from Lenovo devices only change at the last 6 letters and the 4 at the beginning specify the "real" device. The last 6 characters are only defining if there is another soundchip, harddisk etc. In this case we … Read more ». I use a modelalias script in MDT to normalize the model names for Lenovos.
That way I only need to import the right model type, not each variant of it. You can find the ModelAliasExit. MDT copies down the drivers locally, and then using offline serving via dism after the OS image has been applied. Technically, that copying could have been done after applying the OS image as well.
I have a similar issue. W10 I am using the total control process. Have the folders for each model we are using. The issue is that the system reports back a inaccessible boot device blue screen at the point right after the drive is imaged. Saw the sad face. But when running the online, the no device found error happens. Downloaded what was supposed to be the newer hard drive files from HP site.
NO … Read more ». Finding the right drivers can be tricky indeed, however for older models to work with newer versions of Windows 10, sometimes not adding a driver at all makes it work. Windows 10 usually takes over driver support when vendors stop.
Hi, so I downloaded your ModelAlias script. What do I set for the DriverGroup variable? The link shows to set the customsettings. Can you kindly tell me how to inject multiple drivers for different models using a single Task Sequence. Scenario 3 is perfect for that. As long as you name the driver folders in the Deployment Workbench to what the model actually is. The DriverGroup variable will do the matching.
But if you are only deploying Windows 10, it's fine setting them in the CustomSettings. That being said, these days I often use a custom variable, ModelAlias, which is set via a userexit script that calls the "best" method depending on vendor. Given that I know for example that Lenovo's use a totally different WMI location for the human model name, I am wondering if you would be willing to share that userexit script???
Or at least perhaps give a heads up on which vendors beyond Lenovo that we should be proactively working to ensure that we can get the best possible model name value…. The MDT logic is not very good at detecting the product variable.
Funny part, it started working shortly after. I bet my customsettings. Joining the domain works just fine by selecting that option instead but I want it automatically based on MAC. It reads the last section of … Read more ». If you want do to per task sequence related settings for workgroup or domain join settings, they have to be re-evaluated by the task sequence.
Often its easier to just prompt for workgroup vs. The trick is to never have workgroup or domain variables both being set. Thanks for your reply.
Domainjoin, Domainadmin,password etc. We are using the "Total Control" scenario to inject drivers for different models. How can we combine this with selection profiles to inject common drivers e. I have created a selection profile that matches the name of the Make and Model and selected the model drivers as well as the Displaylink drivers.
Is this the correct way to do this? Create a folder named "Docking Stations", add the docking station drivers, and use a DriverGroup variable for those.
Might have to call the inject drivers step again, it's been a while since I tested using multiple DriverGroup variables. However we are in the process of migration to Windows So I bought your book DF vol. Are you aware of any bug on this topic?
I'm not aware of any bugs. There were no code changes from MDT in that regard. I posted a more detailed reply in the TechNet forum. Follow-up, worked with Gianluigi offline, and it turned out be an incorrect path in CustomSettings.
You just add a "Set Task Sequence Variable" action from the "Add" menu, when editing the task sequence. Great tutorial! How do you get the "Set Drivergroup" step in your task sequence? I don't have it in mine. I just have "Inject Drivers. Absolutely right.. Working great again, thanks Johan.
You can check the setupact. Dell OptiPlex Anyone deploying windows 7 x64 to this? I tried deploying my current image to it, and as I thought, it booted and errored out because no network drivers, etc. Re-deployed the image to a desktop, now it errors out during "Setup is preparing your computer for first use" and just keeps rebooting after pressing OK.
In the Monitoring tab, select the Enable monitoring for this deployment share check box. It will take a while for the Deployment Workbench to create the monitoring database and web service. The biggest differences are that you deploy the machines into a domain instead of a workgroup. In this example we are skipping the welcome screen and providing credentials. If you do not have DaRT licensing, or don't want to use it, simply skip to the next section, Update the Deployment Share.
To enable the remote connection feature in MDT, you need to do the following:. When searching, be sure to look for Desktop Optimization Pack. In the Windows PE tab, in the Platform drop-down list, select x This is the process during which the Windows PE boot images are created. These steps will walk you through the process of using task sequences to deploy Windows 10 images through a fully automated process.
At this point, you should have a solution ready for deploying the Windows 10 client. We recommend starting by trying a few deployments at a time until you are confident that your configuration works as expected. We find it useful to try some initial tests on virtual machines before testing on physical hardware. This helps rule out hardware issues when testing or troubleshooting. Here are the steps to deploy your Windows 10 image to a virtual machine:.
Since you have enabled the monitoring on the MDT Production deployment share, you can follow your deployment of PC via the monitoring node. This information can be used to trigger notifications via scheduled tasks when deployment is completed. For example, you can configure scheduled tasks to send an email when a certain event is created in the event log. Multicast deployment allows for image deployment with reduced network load during simultaneous deployments.
Multicast is a useful operating system deployment feature in MDT deployments, however it is important to ensure that your network supports it and is designed for it. If you have a limited number of simultaneous deployments, you probably do not need to enable multicast. In addition to the core MDT setup for multicast, the network needs to be configured to support multicast. In general, this means involving the organization networking team to make sure that Internet Group Management Protocol IGMP snooping is turned on and that the network is designed for multicast traffic.
The multicast solution uses IGMPv3. Setting up MDT for multicast is straightforward. You enable multicast on the deployment share, and MDT takes care of the rest. After updating the deployment share, use the Windows Deployment Services console to, verify that the multicast namespace was created.
In addition to network-based deployments, MDT supports the use of offline media-based deployments of Windows You can very easily generate an offline version of your deployment share - either the full deployment share or a subset of it - through the use of selection profiles. Offline media are useful not only when you do not have network connectivity to the deployment share, but also when you have limited connection to the deployment share and do not want to copy 5 GB of data over the wire.
Offline media can still join the domain, but you save the transfer of operating system images, drivers, and applications over the wire. To filter what is being added to the media, you create a selection profile.
When creating selection profiles, you quickly realize the benefits of having created a good logical folder structure in the Deployment Workbench. In these steps, you generate offline media from the MDT Production deployment share.
To filter what is being added to the media, you use the previously created selection profile. When creating offline media, you need to create the target folder first. It is crucial that you do not create a subfolder inside the deployment share folder because it will break the offline media. Offline media has its own rules, its own Bootstrap. These files are stored in the Control folder of the offline media; they also can be accessed via properties of the offline media in the Deployment Workbench.
Copy the CustomSettings. Overwrite the existing files. On the Drivers and Patches sub tab, select the WinPE x64 selection profile and select the Include all drivers from the selection profile option. You have now configured the offline media deployment share, however the share has not yet been populated with the files required for deployment.
Now everything is ready you populate the deployment share content folder and generate the offline media ISO. The process might require several minutes. The ISO that you got when updating the offline media item can be burned to a DVD and used directly it will be bootable , but it is often more efficient to use USB sticks instead since they are faster and can hold more data. A dual-layer DVD is limited to 8. In this example, the. Alternatively to keep using the USB you must split the.
Windows Setup automatically installs from this file, provided you name it install.
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