Category Archives: MDT

Disk Wipe Wedge for use with Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (Any release)

By | November 28, 2019
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1\Create a folder under the <DeployRoot> named “peFiles” or similar. 2\Populate the folder with the promptForDiskWipe.bat and unattend.xml files from this gist: promptForDiskWipe.bat: https://gist.github.com/brianfgonzalez/dcedc971176ba87551b10ef9f40c332e unattend.xml: https://gist.github.com/brianfgonzalez/d93e4160b03b46885ca187e6bc2fa549 * Click on RAW and then right-click and save-as to save the actual files. 3\Update your MDT boot media to call the promptForDiskWipe.bat script before starting a deployment (litetouch.vbs).… Read More »

Map A1 button on CF-20 and CF-33 to perform soft dismount from keyboard base

By | November 28, 2018
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This sniplet was written to work within a Powershell app deploy toolkit package.  If you are not familiar with that toolkit, get familiar with it, its a huge time saver. ## <Perform Installation tasks here> Execute-Process -Path “$envSystem32Directory\reg.exe” -Parameters (‘load HKLM\ImportedHive “{0}\Users\Default\NTUSER.dat”‘ -f $envSystemDrive) $bClickDefAction = [byte[]](0x25,0x00,0x53,0x00,0x79,0x00,0x73,0x00,0x74,0x00,0x65,0x00,0x6d,0x00,0x52,0x00,0x6f,0x00,0x6f,0x00,0x74,0x00,0x25,0x00,0x5c,0x00,0x53,0x00,0x79,0x00,0x73,0x00,0x74,0x00,0x65,0x00,0x6d,0x00,0x33,0x00,0x32,0x00,0x5c,0x00,0x72,0x00,0x75,0x00,0x6e,0x00,0x64,0x00,0x6c,0x00,0x6c,0x00,0x33,0x00,0x32,0x00,0x2e,0x00,0x65,0x00,0x78,0x00,0x65,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x63,0x00,0x66,0x00,0x67,0x00,0x6d,0x00,0x67,0x00,0x72,0x00,0x33,0x00,0x32,0x00,0x2e,0x00,0x64,0x00,0x6c,0x00,0x6c,0x00,0x2c,0x00,0x43,0x00,0x4d,0x00,0x5f,0x00,0x52,0x00,0x65,0x00,0x71,0x00,0x75,0x00,0x65,0x00,0x73,0x00,0x74,0x00,0x5f,0x00,0x45,0x00,0x6a,0x00,0x65,0x00,0x63,0x00,0x74,0x00,0x5f,0x00,0x50,0x00,0x43,0x00,0x00,0x00) Set-RegistryKey -Key ‘HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\ImportedHive\Control Panel\TabletPC\ButtonMaps\2’ -Name ‘ButtonID’ -Type ‘Dword’… Read More »

How can I easily see how long my Deployment Tasks take?

By | October 17, 2018
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I created a powershell script that outputs a chart displaying a breakdown on Deployment task durations. I tested it with MDT, but it should also work with SCCM. 1\Download the https://github.com/brianfgonzalez/Scripts/blob/master/ZTIDurations.ps1 script. 2\Add the .ps1 to your Deployment share’s script directory. 3\Add a call to the script on the top of your Task Sequence with… Read More »

Run a MDT Deployment Share From Media Without Creating Seperate Media Share

By | July 19, 2018
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Found this cool trick to run a regular MDT Deployment share from media. Add a “media.tag” file to the \Scripts directory. Format and set the flash drive as bootable. NTFS for legacy and FAT32 for UEFI (Use rufus if larger than 32gb). Create Deploy\ folder on root of Flash Drive. Copy contents of Deployment Share… Read More »

Internet Explorer start tile not working with the PowerShell Import-StartLayout

By | March 26, 2018
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Here is a working configuration for importing a “Internet Explorer” tile to the Start screen using the Import-StartLayout PowerShell cmdlet.  This was tested on Win 10 1703. Here is my exported start layout.  I had to manually switch out the %APPDATA% variable with the %ALLUSERSPROFILE% to get it working. <LayoutModificationTemplate xmlns:defaultlayout=”http://schemas.microsoft.com/Start/2014/FullDefaultLayout” xmlns:start=”http://schemas.microsoft.com/Start/2014/StartLayout” Version=”1″ xmlns=”http://schemas.microsoft.com/Start/2014/LayoutModification”> <LayoutOptions StartTileGroupCellWidth=”6″… Read More »