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! ;)
So, in my last post I made a reference to Microsoft Deployment perhaps being known as MSD. Maybe, that’s quite a popular TLA, as Ben Hunter referred to it as MDT.
Microsoft Deployment Tool? Maybe.
Anyway, while we’re on the topic, the Deployment blog has posted a Deployment FAQ :)