Comments on: How MDT does Application Installation

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?

By: tmintner

tmintner — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 02:13:41 +0000

Thanks Jonathon!

MDT will wait until the application reports that it is finished before moving on to the next application. The challenge is that some applications will start another process and report that setup.exe is finished and then MDT will keep going. The best thing to do in those situations is to use a script to wrap around the application install that will wait until the entire process completes before the script finishes. That is a great idea for another blog post

By: jonathon

jonathon — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 01:27:43 +0000

Are there any methods in forcing MDT to wait till an app finishing installing before trying to install the next? EG Autocad, Inventor and Revit. All try to run at once when run through MDT (they are silent but dont wait for the last to finish and not msi. setup.exe with switches).
Great Site by the way. Really good tools

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By: Erik

Erik — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 22:05:13 +0000

Great post Keith! I hope this will spread to all developers out there

Could you write a similar post dedicated to developers of device drivers ?