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Mon, 01 Feb 2010 17:10:17 +0000

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By: tmintner

tmintner — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 19:58:40 +0000

Hi Fred,

The toolkit reference document in the MDT documentation does a pretty decent job of going over all of the variables.

Once you have your script template in place you can access any variable using the oEnvironment.Item

For example to access the computer name you would do
oEnvironment.Item(“OSDComputerName”)

Testing your scripts can be difficult without going through an entire deployment process but it is possible. You could run ztigather.wsf to get all of the local variables set and stored in variables.dat and then run your custom script. Ztigather would run through all of the rules in the customsettings.ini and store all of the variables. This may not work for every script but is a good start.

By: Fred

Fred — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 04:14:35 +0000

Wow what a gold mine this site is… Been looking for just this kind of thing.
Question I have is: Is there a good way to test my scripts without going through an entire capture/deploy process?
And
How do I “see/access” what variables are out there for me to use? For example “IsDesktop = True/False” Where do I go to find these from the script? I notice some variables are stored in .xml files but, I’m not clear about how to read them properly.

By: deploywindows7

deploywindows7 — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 20:13:07 +0000

This is a very helpful post Tim. Thanks for sharing.

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