Scenario, you are wrapping up your specifications and testing for a Lite-Touch deployment of XP and or Vista and you need to train the staff on what to expect when booting from the CD. How do you get screen shots of the dialog boxes during the WinPE phase?
Here is the simple way of doing this.
Microsoft Deployment 4 and Multiple Deployment Points for LTI
If you are only using the Lite-Touch deployment scenario, but have many locations and still want to maintain a central point of management this blog will explain a little known feature that is not well documented in the Microsoft Deployment process, herein known as MDT. Please note that this process will also work for BDD 2007. By making these 3 changes you can present your system builders with a dialog that will allow them to select which deployment point they want to use for building their systems.
The first step is to determine your method of replicating your distribution share. Your method may vary based on your environment. This scenario is based on a client that does have SMS 2003 but does not want to create WIM files for deployment of XP as they have made a decision to wait for System Center Configuration Manager and for their formal rollout of Vista sometime in the future. First I set up the package; this is similar to the one at the MYITForum wiki on how to distribute a Resource Root using SMS.
The only difference is that I copy the entire share as I am deploying XP using the raw CD.
This process will require editing of the existing MDT scripts, the creation of a LocationServer.XML file and finally adding an extra directory to your WinPE boot media.
The first task is to create the LocationServer.XML file. Under your distribution share create a directory. This directory can be named anything you want it to be. I will be naming mine "Additional" because this is the folder where I will put anything that I want included on the boot media. Once you have created the directory, create a file named LocationServer.XML and open it with notepad. Copy the syntax below into the file. You simply then need to modify the code block to match your environment.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<!--
The wizard will select a site if the URL in <QueryDefault> returns an XML like:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<DefaultSites>
<DefaultSite>8</DefaultSite>
</DefaultSites>
Example:
<QueryDefault><![CDATA[http://main.contoso.com/DefaultSite.asp]]></QueryDefault>
-->
<servers>
<QueryDefault></QueryDefault>
<server>
<serverid>1</serverid>
<friendlyname>USA</friendlyname>
<server1>\\usa-wds-01.usa.contoso.com\Distribution$</server1>
</server>
<server>
<serverid>2</serverid>
<friendlyname>Asia</friendlyname>
<server2>\\jpn-wds-01.asia.contoso.com\Distribution$</server2>
</server>
<server>
<serverid>3</serverid>
<friendlyname>Europe</friendlyname>
<server3>\\eu-wds-01.europe.contoso.com\Distribution$</server3>
</server>
<server>
</servers>
The next step is to edit the appropriate script files. Browse to your scripts directory on your distribution share. Make copies of the following 2 scripts, DeployWiz_Initialization.VBS and DeployWiz_Validation.VBS.
Open DeployWiz_Validation.VBS and search for "Flush the value to variables.dat, before we continue", right after this section paste the code below and save the file. The reason this is necessary is that once the LocationServers.XML is the wizard does *not* import in any updated customsettings.ini from the selected regional server, so if you want to import the settings, you'll need to re-run ZTIGather.wsf after the wizard page. This bit of code does this for you.
' Process full rules
sCmd = "wscript.exe """ & oUtility.ScriptDir & "\ZTIGather.wsf"""
oItem = oSHell.Run(sCmd, , true)
Open DeployWiz_Initialization.VBS and search for "Function InitializeDeployRoot", comment out the following line:
Set oXMLSiteData = oUtility.CreateXMLDOMObjectEx( property("DeployRoot") & "\control\LocationServer.xml" )
And paste the following under that line:
Set oXMLSiteData = oUtility.CreateXMLDOMObjectEx( "x:\LocationServer.xml" )
Save the file.
Three steps to go and you are ready to test.
Burn your CD from the newly created ISO and you should be all set.
Thanks to Glenn Fincher of Xtreme Consulting for a portion of this information.
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