We’ve gotten quite a few emails on this so I figured it was time to put this on the blog.   The problem that most people run into is that sometimes when they go through the Lite Touch Client Deployment Wizard, the task sequence list is empty.  So what causes the task sequence list to be empty?  The simple answer is if the DeployRoot cannot be found or is incorrect.  The DeployRoot is the location of the DeploymentShare or content of the MDT Media Point. 

Here is the basic process that should help troubleshoot the problem:

· Windows PE boots up and runs litetouch.wsf

· Litetouch.wsf calls ztigather /inifile:bootstrap.ini and the DeployRoot value is read from the bootstrap.ini

· Litetouch.wsf then makes a call to connect to the DeployRoot using the wizard credentials or the credentials in the bootrap.ini

· Litetouch.wsf then calls ztigather and reads the values from the customsettings.ini (note if a full Media Deployment is inserted in the DVD or USB drive the customsettings.ini will be read from that location instead of the DeployRoot)

· If the DeployRoot value has changed In the customsettings.ini, the value is updated and Litetouch.wsf tries to connect to the DeployRoot

· The wizard is started and the tasksequences.xml file is read from the DeployRoot

· If the DeployRoot does not contain a valid tasksequences.xml then a blank Task Sequence wizard is displayed

Steps to troubleshoot:

· Open BDD.Log

· Search for the value DeployRoot and do a Find Next to make sure that all values in the log file for DeployRoot are the same.  If they are not then there is some setting either in CustomSettings.ini, the database, or on local media that is changing the value