There’s a pretty good video walk through available on Technet by Microsoft’s Richard Smith.
It runs for 30 mins, and provides a very good example of setting up a simple lite touch install in MDT. Well worth a look if you’re new to this tool!
If you’ve been using the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT), aka Deployment4, then you will have probably had the scenario at some point where you PXE boot your client into PE and then the whole process just stops.
The giveaway sign here is that you have the command prompt returned to you.
This can be a bit perplexing, as to what your next move should be in working out what went wrong. During the Beta I was given a helpful hint from the MS guys:
cscript.exe x:\deploy\scripts\litetouch.wsf /debug:true
This provides a bit more output and has been successful in pointing me in the direction of whatever was causing the grief.
The last line is the important one in this example. The path with “broken” in it is showing that I had entered the wrong BuildID in the computers details configuration. That would explain why it couldn’t find the TaskSequence in question! ;)
In the shadow of yesterdays Microsoft RTM announcements, another product team has released a new version: The Automated Installation Kit (AIK) has been updated for Windows Server 2008 and Vista SP1.
According to the Microsoft Download page, this version of the WAIK Tools will support the following OS’s:
Windows Vista
Windows Vista Service Pack 1
Windwos Server 2008
Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 with KB926044
Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2
Windows XP Service Pack 2 with KB926044
Microsoft’s Michael Niehaus, advises:
It also includes the new Windows PE 2.1 version, a minor update to the existing Windows PE 2.0 version. Images created with WAIK 1.0 are fully compatible with those created with WAIK 1.1 — there are no changes to the WIM file format.