Comments for Scriptimus Ex Machina

Comment on MDT Powershell: Importing device drivers from organised folders by Gordon

Gordon — Thu, 23 May 2013 22:06:49 +0000

It worked thanks! If others are interested I copied lines 56 and 57 and changed it to the following:

if (!(Test-Path $DSSelectionProfilePath”\Drivers – “$OS\$Make\$Model)) {
new-item -path $DSSelectionProfilePath -enable “True” -Name “Drivers – $OS – $Make – $Model” -Definition “” -ReadOnly “False” -Verbose

Comment on MDT: Running a single PowerShell Cmdlet from a Task Sequence Step by Andrew Barnes

Andrew Barnes — Thu, 23 May 2013 20:35:04 +0000

I see what you’re trying to do there but advise against it. I say 1 task per step. That way if a step fails then it’s easy to isolate and troubleshoot.

Comment on MDT 2010: User State Migration by Andrew Barnes

Andrew Barnes — Thu, 23 May 2013 20:30:59 +0000

It’s tricky, if the volumes change order then you’ll have to migrate the data to a file share then back again.

Comment on MDT 2012: Automating updates in Lite-Touch Deployments by Andrew Barnes

Andrew Barnes — Thu, 23 May 2013 20:27:12 +0000

The standard task sequence already does that so take a look and replicate its method.

Comment on MDT Powershell: Importing device drivers from organised folders by Andrew Barnes

Andrew Barnes — Thu, 23 May 2013 20:26:13 +0000

You can duplicate the selection profile at line 57 and modify it for models. Test it out and let me know how you get on.

Comment on MDT Powershell: Importing device drivers from organised folders by Gordon

Gordon — Thu, 23 May 2013 18:35:08 +0000

Thanks for this great post, being new to Powershell, how would I edit this to create selection profiles for the models themselves and have them named so I could differentiate between OS type and arch type? So I could use it with this?

http://mschumacherr.tumblr.com/post/16170072867/mdt-2012-lite-touch-driver-management-old-problem-new

Thanks!

Comment on MDT 2012: Automating updates in Lite-Touch Deployments by Derek

Derek — Thu, 23 May 2013 09:24:57 +0000

I am experimenting with MDT2012 update 1 on Windows 8 running the ADK and I am having issues installing offline updates in the package folder for a Windows 8 install being tested in a vm.

Is the correct phase to install the offline updates at “Post Install” between “Add Windows Recovery (WinRe)” and “Next Phase”

Comment on MDT: Running a single PowerShell Cmdlet from a Task Sequence Step by Andy

Andy — Wed, 22 May 2013 20:51:42 +0000

Hi Andrew,
This is very useful for performing simple tasks but I wonder if this method can be used to execute multiple scripts located in the same location. I’ve been trying to get the following to work as a task in MDT, but the path variable in the get-childitem doesn’t seem to work when using the method above and I’m wondering why?

This works from the PowerShell command prompt after ztiutility module imported:
foreach ($i in Get-ChildItem $tsenv:deployroot\scripts -filter *.ps1) { if (($i.FullName).Contains(‘Report-’)) {powershell -command $i.FullName} }

Yet this does not work when invoked using your powershell -command method:
PowerShell -command “} }”

The command basically executes all the ps1 scripts in the SCRIPT folder if the script file name contains ‘Report-’, however when executed using your method, the deployroot path variable isn’t passed inside the script block.

Thank you in advance!
-Andy

Comment on MDT 2010: User State Migration by Ram

Ram — Wed, 22 May 2013 18:24:04 +0000

Hello Every one,
We have a custom requirement in migration from XP to Win7. We have Two partitions in XP c, d. Now in Win7 Our Mangement decide to put 3 Partitions, C:50 Gb D: 5Gb for Paging file, E: Remaining. While doing migration is it possible to restore old XP C drive data to New Win7 C:\ and Old XP D:\ Data to New Win7 E:\. What changes do I have to do.

Please help me in this. I am new bee to MDT.

Ram.

Comment on MDT 2010: Create a Lite Touch Deployment USB drive by Andrew Barnes

Andrew Barnes — Tue, 21 May 2013 22:09:46 +0000

It’s the same principle.