Comments on: How MDT does Application Installation

By: aining

aining — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 17:21:50 +0000

hi!
great post!
I have a question, how would you automate an application install if they have serial numbers, but I want to automatically install w/o prompting for extra misc. details, such as serial number, name, eula, etc…

can I use the same command if I wanted to install Adobe CS5 as well?

thanks!

By: Evans

Evans — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 19:59:44 +0000

Philinda, not really 8o)
The answer for me was to place the UNC path of the app server and share in the applications working directory. MDT now maps Y to this server share.
Before with BDD we had it on the same server as our applications server, so all we did was place a “.” in the working directory. Now they are separated and requires a UNC path.

By: Scott

Scott — Fri, 20 May 2011 09:23:40 +0000

This is an excellent post! really makes sense.
I am struggling to find a decent script to wrap round an exe for deployment however. Can you sugest anything?

By: Lorin

Lorin — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 16:31:26 +0000

PJweiW I’m ipemrssed! You’ve managed the almost impossible.

By: Philinda

Philinda — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 10:21:53 +0000

ohuxh7 I’m out of league here. Too much brain power on diasply!

By: Paul M. Abke

Paul M. Abke — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 23:34:45 +0000

I have an application that needs to be installed on Windows 7 via Group Policy Computer installation, i.e. using the system account. Can this be accomplished using MDT?

By: Evans

Evans — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 19:53:11 +0000

Thanks for the quick reply tmimtner. I added a Run Command Line to the State Restore section in the TS with the following syntax: cscript.exe “%SCRIPTROOT%\ZTIConnect.wsf” /uncpath:\\Server2\Applications$
It does not run for some reason but I can run it manually using:
cscript.exe “\\Server1\Distribution$\Scripts\ZTIConnect.wsf” /uncpath:\\Server2\Applications$
Any thoughts?

By: tmintner

tmintner — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 15:15:29 +0000

One option is to add a zticonnect step just before the application installation step. You would do a Run Command line with cscript.exe “%scriptroot%\zticonnect.wsf” /uncpath:\\server\share

that will make the connection to that server.

By: Evans

Evans — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 15:10:57 +0000

My issue is installing applications from another server. Are you able to set a AppRoot like DelpoyRoot?
http://www.minasi.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=33070
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So say you have a server named MDT01 where the MDT deployment share is (named MDTProduction$), and then a second server named MDT02 where your application share is (named Applications$). You will see that the task sequence will map Z: to \\MDT01\MDTProduction$, and then map Y: to \\MDT02\Applications$, and then install your application.
How do you set MDT2010 to map Y to my applications server?

By: jonathon

jonathon — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 07:46:04 +0000

Ah ok. Thanks I have a script that I am now playing with at this stage It is not working.
Once I get it to work I will post here?