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Using the Wizard Editor is fairly self explanatory for adding simple wizard panes. In 90%+ deployment scenarios, a simple wizard pane including a couple of radio buttons suffice. Here is a simple “Department Name” Wizard Pane, which include 2 radio buttons; “IT Department” and “Sales”. After the Wizard is answered, a “DepartmentName” variable is created and populated with either “ITDEPT” or “SALES” based on the wizard selection: 1 2 3  [ Read More ]

The built-in CustomSettings.INI variables are very useful, but in some occassions they are simply not enough. For instance, the “Model” variable contains the FULL model number (ie. CF-19K4RAX2M). What if I want to create a section breakout for all CF-19 laptops? Here is a method I found to perform this task: 1. First you must tell your “ZTIGather..” script to look out for a new variable, which is ShortModel in  [ Read More ]

By Default, All programs called by an SCCM task Sequence are silent and HIDDEN.  They are not in view, so any non .MSI, old .EXE,  or improperly packaged install packages without fully silent arguments are NOT SUPPORTED without re-packaging.  This process is very time consuming and also troublesome when resources and settings are missed during re-packaging.  The best method I’ve found is to use AutoIt’s “ControlClick” function to click through  [ Read More ]

After the 10th time of answering Microsoft’s CAPTHAs to grab needed SCCM Hotfixes for SCCM 2007 SP2.  I grabbed them all and posted them to the following URL.  Download and use at your disposal to speeden your SCCM 2007 setup process. Link to folder containing Hotfix files: http://tinyurl.com/sccmhotfix SCCM Reference Blog: http://myitforum.com/cs2/blogs/jsandys/archive/2011/02/20/configmgr-2007-post-sp2-hotfixes.aspx – Brian G

In some implementations, the progress bar simply gets in the way.  I wrote up the following script which calls ang AutoIt application to move the bar and then move the mouse to update the screen.  It worked great for my needs! Script Download: http://tinyurl.com/movemdtprogress -Brian G