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Comment on New for MDT 2010: ZTIDomainJoin.wsf by tmintner

tmintner — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:19:05 +0000

One thing to check to see is if the machine existed in that container already before the domain join. When you are joining a machine to the domain that already exists in the domain it will always stay in the OU or container that it was originally part of.

Comment on New for MDT 2010: ZTIDomainJoin.wsf by Stephen

Stephen — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 08:27:59 +0000

Hi,
I’ve got a strange problem using SCCM and MDT 2010, the domian join always works, but sometimes the machine account ends up in the default OU instead of the one specified in the Task Sequence step. It only happens very occasionaly, and there’s nothing of use in the NetSetup.log file as the actual domain join has been successful. Can anyone provide any ideas of where to look next?
Thanks.

Comment on How MDT does Application Installation 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?

Comment on New for MDT 2010: ZTIDomainJoin.wsf by keithga

keithga — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 22:02:12 +0000

Eben,
(Sorry about the delay in responding)…
Yes, if you do nothing at the start of the MDT installation process, the machine will automatically be joined to a Workgroup. YOu can then add the ZTIDomainJoin.wsf script at the *end* of the MDT installation process, just before the final reboot, that should be good.

Comment on How MDT does Application Installation 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

Comment on How MDT does Application Installation 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

Comment on Securing your installation of Litetouch MDT by tmintner

tmintner — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 18:56:22 +0000

Hello,

With MDT 2010, MDT obfuscates the variables that are sensitive in variables.dat automatically such as anything with a username or product key.

Comment on New for MDT 2010: ZTIDomainJoin.wsf by Eben

Eben — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 14:58:50 +0000

keithga – Thank you so much for this help! I am new to MDT and this is my first deployment for a large company. I allso struggle for days with the GPO that renamed the local admin account. I removed the Domain Join Entries from the ZTIConfigure.xml script, and it is now not jouning the Domain at the beginning. I want to join a workgroup at that point, which is correct. What do I have to do to have to workgroup name auto filled in and continue without my interaction at that stage?

Your help is much apreciated!!!

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